3.E.2
Miracles like healing or successful conception after infertility are cited as affirmations of which divine attribute?
God's compassion and responsiveness
According to faith traditions, the occurrence of miracles demonstrates God's active involvement in the world, which highlights which principle?
God Intervenes in History
Which aspect of God, as supported by Anselm's definition, implies the capacity to suspend natural laws and make miracles possible?
God is Omnipotent
According to realist views, what is the fundamental characteristic of miracles like Jesus healing the paralyzed man?
An objectively true historical event
For anti-realists like Tillich and Wiles, what is the key significance of Jesus' miracles?
Stories inspiring moral human action
How do realist and anti-realist views primarily differ on the objective reality of miracles?
Realists affirm objective reality; anti-realists see them as subjective.
As an existentialist, Rudolf Bultmann believed that faith is primarily about what fundamental aspect for an individual?
The individual's personal decision to accept or reject God.
In his 1941 essay, Rudolf Bultmann questioned the literal truth of miracle stories in the Bible. What was the name of this influential work?
New Testament and Mythology
According to Rudolf Bultmann, what was a potential negative consequence of insisting on a literal belief in miracle stories?
Push people away from Christianity.
Bultmann claimed that gospel writers used myth with what primary intention regarding Jesus?
To express belief in Jesus as the Son of God through symbolic stories.
Maurice Wiles rejected traditional miracle beliefs because they were primarily considered to be what?
Morally problematic.
Maurice Wiles found it problematic that God would perform minor miracles but not intervene in which type of events?
Major human suffering.
According to Maurice Wiles, what primary problem does the belief in God performing miracles that break natural laws create?
It creates serious difficulties for theodicy.
Which historical events did Maurice Wiles specifically mention to question God's non-intervention despite being able to perform miracles?
The Holocaust and the Hiroshima bombing.