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Miracles: God's Presence and Power in Creation
Contributor(s): Johnson, Luke Timothy (Author)
ISBN: 0664234070     ISBN-13: 9780664234072
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
OUR PRICE:   $45.00  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: July 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christian Theology - General
- Religion | Biblical Studies - General
- Religion | Biblical Commentary - General
Dewey: 231.73
LCCN: 2018002994
Physical Information: 1.31" H x 6.21" W x 9.29" (1.51 lbs) 368 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Christian
 
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Publisher Description:

Miracles are not confined to the stories of Scripture; these signs of God's presence and power in creation are experienced throughout our daily existence. Yet cultural challenges and modernity's skepticism have marginalized belief in them as unreasonable and irrational, says Luke Timothy Johnson.

In this excellent resource for church professionals, Johnson reclaims Christian belief in miracles as integral to recovering a proper and strong sense of creation, recognizing the validity of personal experience and narrative and asserting the truth-telling quality of myth. His analysis includes:

  • a description of the competing symbolic worldviews that have framed the discussion on miracles, including secular debates and theological imagination;
  • interpretation of miracles consonant with the biblical construction of reality in the Old and New Testaments;
  • suggestions for four areas in the church's life—teaching, preaching, prayer, and pastoral care—that can work together to shape a symbolic world, within which believers can expect, perceive, and celebrate the miracles in everyday life.

Contributor Bio(s): Johnson, Luke Timothy: -

Luke Timothy Johnson is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor Emeritus of New Testament and Early Christian Origins at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University. A New Testament scholar and historian of early Christianity, he is the author of more than two dozen books. He is also the 2011 Grawemeyer Award in Religion for Among the Gentiles: Greco-Roman Religion and Christianity.