Miracles Today: The Supernatural Work of God in the Modern World

by Craig Keener

Publisher:

Baker Academic

, 2021

Overview

Do miracles still happen today? This book demonstrates that miraculous works of God have been part of the experience of the church around the world since Christianity began and that they continue into the present. Leading New Testament scholar Craig Keener addresses common questions about miracles and provides compelling reasons to believe in them today, including many accounts that offer evidence of verifiable miracles.

This book gives an accessible and concise overview of one of Keener’s most significant research topics. Keener’s earlier two-volume work on miracles stands as the definitive work on the topic, but its size and scope are daunting to many readers. This work summarizes Keener’s basic argument but contains substantial new material, including new accounts of the miraculous. It is suitable as a textbook but also accessible to church leaders and laypeople.

Key Features

• Provides an accessible and concise overview of one of Keener’s most significant research topics
• Summarizes Keener’s basic argument with substantial new material
• Addresses common questions about miracles

Contents

Top Highlights

“Probably the most common definition of a miracle throughout history, from Augustine to Aquinas, has been a divine action that transcends the ordinary course of nature and so generates awe. By ‘transcending the ordinary course of nature,’ these thinkers don’t just mean an unusually awesome sunset. They mean something you would never expect to happen on its own.” (Page 3)

“Miracles don’t always happen—but sometimes they do” (Page 4)

“God acts in history not because all his people have identical, precise theology. God acts, as in Jesus’s ministry in the Gospels, to show compassion on many of the needy and to provide foretastes of Christ’s kingdom.” (Page 39)

“One cannot explain meaning apart from intelligence.’ Random marks communicate little, but specifically arranged marks designed to represent meaning communicate information.” (Page 7)

“some people are so opposed to miracles that they keep raising the bar of evidence to evade them” (Page 5)

Product Details

• Title: Miracles Today: The Supernatural Work of God in the Modern World
• Author: Craig Keener
• Publisher: Baker Academic
• Print Publication Date: 2021
• Logos Release Date: 2021
• Pages: 284
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Miracles
• ISBNs: 9781493431403, 9781540963833, 9781540964298, 9781493431380, 1493431404, 1540963837, 1540964299, 1493431382
• Resource ID: LLS:MIRACLESTODAY
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T01:31:33Z

About Craig Keener

Dr. Craig S. Keener (PhD, Duke University) is professor of New Testament at Asbury Theological Seminary, and is the author of 17 books, four of which have won book awards in Christianity Today. One, The IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament, has sold more than half a million copies. He has authored scholarly commentaries on Matthew, John (two volumes), Acts (four volumes), and more briefly on Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, and Revelation. Dr. Keener is married to Dr. Médine Moussounga Keener, who spent 18 months as a refugee in her nation of Congo before their marriage.