Table of Contents

    • Introduction
    Part 1: The Ancient Evidence
    • 1. Opening Questions about Early Christian Miracle Claims
    • 2. Ancient Miracle Claims outside Christianity
    • 3. Comparison of Early Christian and Other Ancient Miracle Accounts
    Part 2: Are Miracles Possible?
    • 4. Antisupernaturalism as an Authenticity Criterion?
    • 5. Hume and the Philosophic Questions
    • 6. Developing Hume's Skepticism toward Miracles
    Part 3: Miracle Accounts beyond Antiquity
    • 7. Majority World Perspectives
    • 8. Examples from Asia
    • 9. Examples from Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean
    • 10. Supernaturalism in Earlier Christian History
    • 11. Supernatural Claims in the Recent West\
    • 12. Blindness, Inability to Walk, Death, and Nature: Some Dramatic Reports
    Part 4: Proposed Explanations
    • 13. Nonsupernatural Causes
    • 14. Biased Standards?
    • 15. More Extranormal Cases
    • Conclusion
    • Concluding Unscientific Postscript
    • Appendixes
    • Indexes