Miracles
The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts (2 Vols.)
Craig S. Keener
luotu 18.12.2022 klo 20:56
Sivuja: 1248
Kustantaja: Baker Academic, 2011
ISBN-10: 0801039525
ISBN-13: 9780801039522
Tilaa Adlibrikselta – tuet Puolustajan Polkua!
Kirjan kansiliepeestä ja takakannesta:
Most modern prejudice against biblical miracle reports depends on David Hume's argument that uniform human experience precluded miracles. Yet current research shows that human experience is far from uniform. In fact, hundreds of millions of people today claim to have experienced miracles. In this wide-ranging and meticulously researched study, Craig Keener argues that it is time to rethink Hume's argument in light of the contemporary evidence available to us.
Seldom does a book take one's breath away, but Keener's magisterial Miracles is such a book. It is an extremely sophisticated, completely thorough treatment of its subject matter and, in my opinion, it is now the best text available on the topic. The uniqueness of Keener's treatment lies in his location of the biblical miracles in the trajectory of ongoing, documented miracles in the name of Jesus and His kingdom throughout church history, up to and including the present. From now on, no one who deals with the credibility of biblical miracles can do so responsibly without interacting with this book.
Keener's discussion of New Testament miracles adduces a uniquely—indeed staggeringly—extensive collection of comparative material. That eyewitnesses frequently testify to miraculous healings and other 'extranormal' events is demonstrated beyond doubt. Keener mounts a very strong challenge to the methodological skepticism about the miraculous to which so many New Testament scholars are still committed. It turns out to be an ethnocentric prejudice of modern Western intellectuals. So who's afraid of David Hume now?
This book is a rarity in the scholarly world in that it is both rigorous in its scholarship and speaks with knowledge and passion about an exciting subject that demands our attention. We have here perhaps the best book ever written on miracles in this or any age. Highly recommended.
Craig S. Keener on Uuden testamentin tutkimuksen professori (Asbury Theological Seminary). Hän on kirjoittanut niin akateemisia kuin kansantajuisiakin teoksia, joista kuusi on palkittu, sekä satakunta vertaisarvioitua artikkelia.
