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Miracles, Past And Present - Softcover

William Mountford

 
9780371293928: Miracles, Past And Present

Synopsis

Miracles, Past And Present by William Mountford. A nineteenth-century religious-philosophical defense of miracles and the supernatural against modern anti-supernaturalism, arguing for reading Christian miracles through a pneumatological framework and engaging science and history without denying the possibility of the miraculous. Mountford contends that the church should recover the Spirit’s role in worship, doctrine, and daily life, critiques skeptics such as Renan, Strauss, Froude, Feuerbach, Baden-Powell, Buckle, and others, and grounds miracles in the Spirit, Scripture, and patristic testimony. The work asserts that miracles are signs pointing to a higher spiritual reality, that science cannot adjudicate matters of the supernatural, and that pneumatology (angels, demons, prophecy, the Holy Spirit) is essential. It presents the Spirit’s historical witness through Paul, Chrysostom, Baxter, Owen, Boehme, and Fox, and envisions spiritual renewal and future Christian unity facilitated by the Spirit. The Preface and Contents set the stage for a multi-part argument defending pneumatology, miracles, and Scriptural interpretation against modern skepticism.

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