The Idea of the Miraculous : The Challenge to Science and Religion

Stephen J. Andriole And Gerald W. Hopple. Includes Indexes. Bibliography: P. [169]-180. Front Matter....Pages i-xv The Crisis in Modern Theology....Pages 1-13 The Idea of the Miraculous....Pages 14-24 Miracles and Natural Necessity....Pages 25-34 Miracles and Mind....Pages 35-44 Miracles as a Mode of the Super-normal....Pages 45-53 Super-normality as a Mode of the Real....Pages 54-83 The Systematic Investigation of the Super-normal....Pages 84-111 Super-normality as a Mode of the Present....Pages 112-130 The Challenge of the Super-normal....Pages 131-136 The Demise of Scientific Materialism....Pages 137-157 Physical Reality and Philosophical Ideality....Pages 158-202 Knowledge, Super-normality and Faith....Pages 203-210 Back Matter....Pages 211-269 The interest of the book lies in its "Gedankenexperiment" of developing the idea in a direction which gives way to the theologically neutral notion of the "psychical"; and the vastness of the philosophical consequences for both science and religion to follow from this.