After illustrating a crucial distinction between the meanings of the term/category "miracle" in modern and pre-modern times, the essay delves into the hagiographical literature of a Mughal-period North Indian bhakti community in order to demonstrate how its miracle tales work as pedagogical devices...
History shows that world religions made their appearances at different times with great gaps between them. For example, why was Islam introduced to the world in a relative recent time in 610 AD. If Jehovah and Allah are the same God, what was the point of presenting Allah to the world. ...
Xiangshan Shuangqing villa writes the song, Mao Zedongs Qilv, of great momentum of pe 6、oples liberation army occupied Nanjing, the last two sentences: Heaven can be overturned, human right is the vicissitudes of life.Vicissitudes of life - in the modern century, which country suffered hum...
Paul investigates modern miracles for the Catholic Church. After he witnesses a true supernatural miracle, only for his findings to be dismissed, he leaves the Church behind and is approached by Alva Keel to join his organization. Read more: Plot summary Seasons 1 See all Creators Richard ...
The accounts of these nature miracles have a bearing on the claim that miracles, if they can be defined, have occurred in medieval and modern times. The miracles of the apostles and some of their converts, include the deaths of Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5:1-11); Peter’s deliverance ...
Miracles In every age there are certain great movements of human thought, which more or less influence the convictions of men in the mass, and carry them on to conclusions which, but a few years before, would have seemed altogether improbable. Sometimes it is very difficult to account for th...
Almost as if God chose to answer the skeptics who complained that no easily verifiable major public miracles had occurred in modern times, the twentieth century witnessed the most public miracle of all time. At Fatima, Portugal, on October 13, 1917, God dramatically removed many of the objectio...
Les Miraculées de Lourdes : Sacred Celebrities in the Age of Mass Spectacle: Sacred Celebrities Scholars have claimed that the rise of modern print media and the mass production of goods turned the promotion of saints and other exceptional religious figures into a mass cultural phenomenon. That...
The tempo, the complexity, the tension of modern life, call for something that can perform the miracle of stimulating brain activity, without evil, habit-forming after-effects. — Margaret Meagher 42 Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, ...
When I was young, I loved to read biographies(传记) of successful people, from ancient times to modern days, from China to overseas. From all these successful people, I always find 1.___(first) common characteristic(特点) — grit.2...