✦ LIBER ✦
Historical insights on miracles: Babbage, Hume, Aquinas
✍ Scribed by John King-Farlow
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 1982
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 601 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0020-7047
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Tile profundity of a set of distinctions may go unmarked in too many quarters for all too many centuries.
Aquinas offered a profound and yet commonsensical triplet of distinctions concerning the miraculous at Summa Contra Gentiles I1, 101. Outside New-Thomist circles it is still surprising how many books, which include discussions of miracles neglect even to mention those distinctions despite their obvious relevance.
For example, a great many English-speaking students who take a course in philosophy of religion while at college will read at least one of the following: