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miracle a surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore considered to be the work of a divine agency. Recorded from Middle English, the word comes via Old French from Latin
miraculum ‘object of wonder’, from
mirari ‘to wonder’, from
mirus ‘wonderful’.
the age of miracles is past proverbial saying; late sixteenth century, often used ironically, or as a comment on failure.
miracle play a dramatization based on events in the life of Jesus or the legends of the saints, popular in the Middle Ages, a
mystery play.
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Miracles are everywhere if you know where to look
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 12/19/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Webster also said a miracle was, simply, "a wonder...that last definition, miracles happen in my world all...are talking about miracles, Bruce's debut of...bowl of tomato soup. Miracle as magic trick. God...Bruce that real, true miracles happen all around him...
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Modern Miracles // Believe It or Not, They Still Occur
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 5/5/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...hard to quantify miracles because no hotline or miracle clearinghouse...conviction that miracles do happen, but...Anne Hooe's miracle in 1952, hospital...thinks about the miracle and wonders...there are so many miracles," she says...
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Miracles in Enlightenment England
Magazine article from: Anglican and Episcopal History; 12/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...the cessation of miracles and inspired some...criteria to test miracle claims. Thus...skeptics ridiculed miracle claims both in the...assault on biblical miracles, including the essential Christian miracle of the resurrection...
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MIRACLES IN EYE OF BEHOLDER.(Local)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 4/12/1998; 700+ words
; ...celebrate Jesus' greatest miracle today, the Rocky Mountain...their experiences with miracles. DON MESSER ILIFF SCHOOL...replaced him as pastor. Miracles demonstrate the power...To understand a miracle you need to understand...And because of miracles, ``We can never give...
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Miracle et Karama: Hagiographies medievales comaprees.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 7/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...most common miracles. Sofia Boesch...recits: Le miracle entre l'antiquite...scriptuaires du miracle en Islam," usefully surveys miracles in the Qur...musulmans face au miracle," observes...writers distrusted miracles (as temptations...
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Miracles, early modern science, and rational religion.
Magazine article from: Church History; 9/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...moreover, the role of miracles as signs of Christ...Thus those who demand a miracle are castigated: "Unless...between the idea of miracle and the idea of a law...latter because of the miracle narratives of Scripture and the role assumed by miracles in the justification...
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Miracles exist to put on us on the spiritual path
Newspaper article from: The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL; 11/5/2005; ; 700+ words
; "It's a miracle!" Those are beautiful...words to hear because miracles are exciting, life...God bless me with a miracle so I can be taught...No, we want miracles to bless us, not test us. We see a miracle as the event that...
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Miracle Boy.(short story)
Magazine article from: Esquire; 12/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...interested to see what a miracle looked like. They knew about miracles from the Bible--the...their curiosity up. Miracle Boy didn't want to...to reattach. It's miracles around us every day, said Miracle Boy. Lizard and Geronimo...
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Struggling Miracle leaving Orlando, to be relocated.
Newspaper article from: The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, Fla.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service); 10/21/2002; 700+ words
; ...to cease operations of the Orlando Miracle. Neither the 6-year-old women's league nor the 4-year-old Miracle ever have turned a profit, though...decision on the future home of the Miracle in the upcoming weeks." Several other...
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Miracle Recreation Equipment Company Announces Miracle's Grants for America's Schools Program.
Business Wire; 5/16/2008; 700+ words
; Miracle Grants for America's Schools Offers up to Five Million...Social and Cognitive Development MONETT, Mo. -- Miracle Recreation Equipment Company announced today the Miracle's Grants for America's Schools Program. Miracle...
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Miracles
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
MIRACLES. Miracles, miracle workers, and their stories are found in the life and literature...that "No testimony is sufficient to establish" that a miracle has occurred. Miracles as Narrative Constructions But "nature" and its "laws...
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Foundation for A Course in Miracles
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...x2014; . Christian Psychology in A Course in Miracles. Roscoe, N.Y.: Foundation for A Course in Miracles, 1992. — — . The Fifty Miracle Principles of A Course in Miracles. Roscoe, N.Y.: Foundation for A Course...
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Miracle
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion
Miracle In order to differentiate...identified with miracles. Since the dawning...an event is a miracle is thus relative...Possibility of miracles What could conceivably...Identification of miracles The question...any event as a miracle is possible...
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miracle
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...hidden. The idea of the miracle occurs especially with the...inexplicable events have been called miracles, but in the strict religious sense a miracle refers only to the direct...Christianity, and Islam attribute miracles to the omnipotence of God...
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A Course in Miracles
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...originally published A Course in Miracles, founded Miracle Life, Inc. (now Miracle Experiences, Inc...conferences and workshops. Miracle Distribution Center has...received by Schucman concerned miracles as shifts in perception...
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