Colin Brown, Eerdmans,1984

MIRACLES AND THE CRITICAL MIND

Introduction
I. PROLOGUE: THE PRESCIENTIFIC AGE
1 . Miracles and Apologetics from the Early Church to the Reformation
The Early Church. Aquinas, Luther, and Calvin

II. THE RISE OF SKEPTICISM
2. The Seventeenth-Century Crucible
The New Horizons of the Critical Mind. Spinoza's Critique of Miracles in the Name of the Divine Laws of Science. The Muted Skepticism of Thomas Hobbes. Pascal and Miracles-Ancient and Modern. Glanvill, Boyle, and Seventeenth-century British Science. John Locke and the Appeal to Miracles as Proof of Divine Attestation
3. The Age of Deism
The Britrsh Deists. The Deists' Case against the Gospel Miracles. Orthodox Apologetics and Miracles. Bishop Butler and Probability. Francois de Paris and the Saint-Medard Miracles. Conyers Middleton and Church History. New Directions
4. David Hume
The Impossibility of Violations of Laws of Nature. The Weakness of Historical Testimony to Miracles. Hume's Legacy. Postscript

III. THE LEGACY OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
5. Continental Skepticism
Kant and the Age of Enlightenment. Reimarus and the Quest of the Historical Jesus. Lessing and the Status of Historical Claims. Early Lives of Jesus and the Miraculous. Schleiermacher and Jesus as the Man Filled with the Consciousness of God. Strauss and Myth. Feuerbach and Miracles as the Projection of Human Wishes. The Jesus of End-of-the-Century Liberal Protestantism. Troeltsch, Bousset, and the History-of-Religions School. Kierkegaard and the Divine Incognito
6. Orthodoxy Embattled
Roman Catholicism. Protestant Orthodoxy. The American Scene.
Conclusion

IV. THE ONGOING DEBATE
7. The Questions of the Philosophers
Skepticism Restated. The Possibility of Miracles Reasserted. Further Refinements
8. The Answers of the Apologists
American Evangelical Apologists. Roman Catholic Apologists. British Writers
9. Critical Crosscurrents
Neo-orthodoxy. Bultmann, Form Criticism, and Demythologization. Alan Richardson and Biblical Theology. Trends in Contemporary Critical Study

V. POSTSCRIPT: A QUESTION OF PERSPECTIVE
10. Christian Apologetics and Miracles
Perspectives and Evidence. Miracles and the Resurrection. Violations and Contingency
11. The Place of the Gospel Miracles in New Testament lnterpretation
Perspectives in Christology. The Gospel According to Mark. The Gospel According to Matthew. The Gospel According to Luke. The Gospel According to John. Miracles and the Trinity

Endnotes
Index

Miracles and the Critical Mind
Book Review
John M. Frame
http://www.frame-poythress.org/frame_articles/1985Brown.htm
Chilton Williamson, Jr.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_v36/ai_3326540