Miracles Revisited. A Short Theological and Historical Survey

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Preface 1
4. I Rereading New Testament Miracle Stories
5. “For nothing will be impossible with God” (Luke 1:37): The Reality of “The Feeding the Five Thousand” (Luke 9:10–17) in the Universe of Discourse of Luke’s Gospel 5
6. Miracles of Judgment in Luke-Acts 23
7. Epiphany Reconsidered: A parallel reading of Acts 9:1–9 and Iliad 188–224a 33
8. Of Dogs and Women: Ethology and Gender in Ancient Healing. The Canaanite Woman’s Story – Matt 15:21–28 55
9. II Miracle Stories and Medical Discourse
10. Stories Just Under the Skin: lepra in the Gospel of Luke 73
11. Miracle and Natural Cause in Galen 101
12. The Physiology of Spirit in the Reformation: Medical Consensus and Protestant Theologians 115
13. III Politics of Miracle Stories
14. Disability and the Terror of the Miracle Tradition 161
15. Miracle & Eschatology in Two African American Slave Narratives & the Spirituals: From ‘Orality’ to Text 183
16. Cultural Translation: The Fig Tree and Politics of Representation under Nero in Rome (Mark 11:13–15, 19–20; Matthew 21:18–19; Luke 13:1–9) 201
17. Imperial Miracles and Elitist Discourses 233
18. IV Media of Miracles
19. The healing Christ in early Christian funeral art: The example of the frescoes at Domitilla catacomb/Rome 251
20. The Rhetoric of Violence and Healing in the Church of Prophites Elias in Thessaloniki 275
21. The Wondrous World of the Cinema: Types of Depictions of the Miraculous in Jesus Films 293
22. V Rethinking the Miraculous
23. Miracles Revisited. A Short Theological and Historical Survey 315
24. New Testament Healing Narratives and the Category of Numinous Power 337
25. The Concept of Miracle and the Concepts of Reality. Some Provisional Remarks 351
26. Marvels, Miracles, Signs and the Real: Peirce’s Semiotics in Religion and Art 377
27. List of Contributors 391
28. Index of Subjects and Persons 395
29. Index of Biblical Sources 401
30. Index of Authors 407