This study presents the most thorough current defense of the credibility of the miracle reports in the Gospels and Acts. Drawing on claims from a range of global cultures and taking a multidisciplinary approach to the topic, Keener suggests that many miracle accounts throughout …
This study presents the most thorough current defense of the credibility of the miracle reports in the Gospels and Acts. Drawing on claims from a range of global cultures and taking a multidisciplinary approach to the topic, Keener suggests that many miracle accounts throughout …
Americans have long been aware of the phenomenon loosely known as faith healing. During the 1990s the American cultural landscape changed and religious healing became a commonplace feature in our society. This is a look at this new reality.
Prologue -- Saints, pilgrimage, and miracles -- Life in the Middle Ages -- Saints -- Apparitions -- Pilgrimage and shrines -- Saints, pilgrimage, and healing -- Disease -- The role stress in illness -- Belief, hope, and healing -- Framing, confessing, and healing -- Appendix A: …
In this text, Kenneth Baxter Wolf offers a study and translation of the testimony given by witnesses at the canonization hearings of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, who died in 1231 in Marburg, Germany, at the age of 24.