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Miracles in Islam and Christianity
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Miracles in Islam and Christianity
This paper examines the philosophical and religious roots of beliefs about the nature of the world and divine intervention according to Muslim scholar Averroes, the Enlightenment, science, occasionalism and Aristotle.
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"Is the Universe a fundamentally orderly place, in which effect flows from cause? Or is it, on the other hand, essentially disordered and chaotic, and brought to some appearance of order only by the providential intervention of God. Do miracles occur? Or is everything that happens in a sense a miracle, in showing God's hand at work? Does a tree fall in the forest--or do tree and forest exist in the first place--save by divine action?These are fundamental questions over which Western philosophers (and theologians) have argued for some twenty-five centuries. The discussion has, moreover, been by no means confined to the West. The other great philosophical traditions, such as the Chinese and the Indian, have also touched upon these problems. Until quite recent times, however, these other ... "
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Miracles in Islam and Christianity (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 13, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Essay-Miracles-in-Islam-and-Christianity/21704
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"Miracles in Islam and Christianity" 15 January 2012. Web. 13 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Essay-Miracles-in-Islam-and-Christianity/21704>
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