More on the Historical Problem of Miracles

More on the Historical Problem of Miracles - The Bart Ehrman Blog

a “miracle” can never be shown, on historical grounds, to have happened — even if it did. Here is a slightly different way of approaching the matter ...

The Problem of Miracles: A Historical and Philosophical Perspective

Modern skepticism concerning the gospel miracles first asserted itself by denying the miraculous nature of the events. Soon, however, the historicity of the ...

Historians and the Problem of Miracle - The Bart Ehrman Blog

In that post you say can't consider miracles to be historical due to the presuppositions of the current community you work with. Using the ...

Miracles, the Historical Method, and a Merry Christmas

I must admit I found it surprising at first that we should be reading a collection of miracle stories for a history class. However, as I ...

Is there any historical basis for the miracles of Jesus? - Reddit

Bart ehrman deals with the historical problem of Miracles in his textbook on the New Testament. ... This is more than we can know, using the ...

Hume, Historical Research, and Miracles - 1517

The origin of the discussion about historical research and what it is capable of describing relative to the case of miracles can be traced back ...

Historians and miracles | History Forum - Historum

From an historian's perspective miracles are ruled out as they are the least probable explanation. Anyone arguing that miracles may have ...

Where Is The Problem with Miracles? Miracles and Their Omniscient ...

A miracle seems to be a fairly straightforward event, the occurrence of something so unusual that the most likely explanation is that God ...

Why Don't We See Miracles Like the Apostles Did?

The miracles of the early church, then, served an immediately relevant purpose in redemptive history: verifying the authenticity of God's ...

The Problem of Miracles / OrthoChristian.Com - Orthodox Christianity

Very often such scholars assert that miracles appear to be either a fiction, a fraud, or such a phenomenon which science cannot at present ...

A Critique of David Hume's On Miracles | Maranatha Baptist Seminary

Hume's Newtonian physic causes more problems when it is applied to history. Since testimony to a miracle is a historical question, Hume misapplies his ...

The Unique Problem of Miracles (Part 2/2) - Craig Blomberg | Free

We left off having left unaddressed in any detail, the biggest challenge in the 21st century, at least among New Testament scholars or biblical scholars more ...

Miracles & Historical Method - Richard Carrier Blogs

Simply because, a miracle is the least probable explanation, and there are always other, more probable explanations, and the historian always ...

Miracles then and now - The Gospel Coalition

This collection of scholarly essays addresses the historical and philosophical issues rather than the issue of miracles today. Finally ...

Why Do We See So Few Miracles Today? - Desiring God

The second observation I would make is that there are probably more miracles happening today than we realize. ... We would think we were living in ...

Jesus Mythicism 8: Jesus, History and Miracles - History for Atheists

But even in its more developed form, this kind of argument ignores the fact that miracles and what we consider the supernatural were commonly ...

A problem with miracles - Blog | Living Theology | John B. MacDonald

There is much more to miracles, but this will do for now. Let's look ... In this dimension, we seek to locate a parallel between the OT history of ...

The 6 Criteria Historians Use for Proof of Jesus' Miracles

Did Jesus perform miracles? In order for us to claim that He did, the accounts of miracle-working will have to pass basic historical criteria for ...

Ehrman and the Historicity of Miracles | True and Reasonable

Even if miracles are possible, there is no way for the historian to show that they ever happened. I'm going to call this the historical problem ...

Miracles | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

The first of these issues is a conceptual one: What is a miracle? Controversy over the conception of a miracle focuses primarily on whether a miracle must be, ...