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Bezig met laden... Miracles (origineel 1947; editie 2015)door C. S. Lewis (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkWonderen door C. S. Lewis (1947)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A very unconvincing bit of theosophy, definitely not Lewis's best work. ( ) "This is a book about the possibility of God's intervention in Nature and human affairs. In Miracle: A Preliminary Stury, C.S. Lewis' logic is seemingly effortless, his illustration are shrewd, and he open-mindedly leaves the historical evidence for miracles to the reader to discover for himself." From the back of the book. This book, as its subtitle implies, is a study preliminary to any historical inquiry into the actual occurrence of miracles. With most historians the decision against the probability of miracles is made almost unconsciously before the historical work begins. The purpose of this book is to shift the question of probability from the unconscious to the conscious plane, and its main argument is directed to embattling the 18th and 19th century assumption against the miraculous. I enjoyed this book; Lewis does a reasonable job of presenting his arguments as to why theism is reasonable, why miracles are reasonable, and what criteria can be used for judging miracle. My main annoyance with the book is that Lewis tends to reason along the lines of "A or B, we don't like A, therefore B". For example, he makes a good case that either (a) there must be some sort of supernatural being representative of truth or (b) everything we believe to be true is just a vastly convenient fiction. He then goes on the claim the former as being the true solution even though the later is equally likely, just less comforting. Lewis also has a tendency to define terms to suit his needs. He defines Naturalism as, amongst other things, being deterministic. Thus, he can appeal to our sense of the fitness of things to argue for theism; for example, at one point he says something like "if Naturalism is true, you are only reading this book and I am only writing it because of some inevitable chain of events". At another time, he claims that quantum mechanics cannot really be part of nature because it admits nondeterminism. Another way to interpret these limitations of his definition is to wonder, as I did, whether his definition of Naturalism might not just be pure rhetorical BS. Lewis does better in the later parts of the books when he switches to arguments that are just as rational as before but drops the claim to be proving anything. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Is opgenomen inThe Abolition of Man / The Great Divorce / Mere Christianity / Miracles / The Problem of Pain / The Screwtape Letters door C. S. Lewis THE CHRISTIAN COLLECTION. 9 Books including: Mere Christianity; Screwtape Letters; Miracles; The Great Divorce; Pilgrim's Recess; The Problem Of Pain ... (Timeless Wisdom Collection Book 1016) door C. S. Lewis
"The central miracle asserted by Christians is the Incarnation. They say that God became Man. Every other miracle prepares the way for this, or results from this." This is the key statement of Miracles, in which C. S. Lewis shows that a Christian must not only accept but rejoice in miracles as a testimony of the unique personal involvement of God in his creation. Using his characteristic lucidity and wit to develop his argument, Lewis challenges the rationalists, agnostics, and deists on their own grounds and provides a poetic and joyous affirmation that miracles really do occur in our everyday lives. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)231.73Religions Christian doctrinal theology God; Unity; Trinity Relation to the world - divine law and miraclesLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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