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Broschüre. Condición: New. 1. Specht, Julia; Klaus, Julius; Wang, Shiwen Sven; Rüßmann, Jo; Wedel, Kristina; Jahchan, Chantal; Studer, Meg; Mladenovski, Viktoria (ilustrador).

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. For as long as people have told stories, they have told of wonders that should not be possible. But what is really happening when we call something a miracle?From a child cured against the odds to a saint said to defy gravity, claims of the impossible run through every culture and every age. They inspire devotion in some and suspicion in others, yet they rarely get the patient, clear-eyed attention they deserve. Miracles in a Nutshell: Faith, Reason, and the Question of the Impossible offers exactly that: a calm, balanced guide through one of humanity's most persistent and divisive ideas.This is not a book that sets out to prove or disprove. Instead, Miracles in a Nutshell: Faith, Reason, and the Question of the Impossible walks the reader along the line where belief meets argument, weighing what the faithful affirm, what the skeptic asks, and what honest reflection can hold open. It draws on philosophy, history, science, and the world's religious traditions to show why these questions still matter and why they refuse to settle.A clear account of what people across traditions have actually meant by the impossible made realThe strongest arguments for belief, and the strongest arguments against, presented fairly side by sideHow natural law, probability, and the limits of evidence shape what we are willing to acceptThe roles of testimony, healing claims, and reported wonders in shaping religious lifePractical ways to think about extraordinary claims without cynicism or credulityWritten in the warm, accessible style of the In a Nutshell series, Miracles in a Nutshell: Faith, Reason, and the Question of the Impossible respects both the believer and the doubter. It asks better questions rather than handing down easy answers, leaving the reader more thoughtful, more curious, and better equipped to weigh wonder against reason. For anyone who has ever paused at the edge of the impossible and wondered what to make of it, here is a concise companion for the journey. About the Author Theo Michael Williams is an independent researcher with a background in the history and philosophy of religion. For many years he has been drawn to the ways religious traditions have understood the extraordinary, reading widely across scripture, philosophy, and the accounts that ordinary people give of events they cannot explain. What holds his attention is not whether such stories can be proven, but how questions about miracles and the limits of the explicable can be approached thoughtfully, with curiosity rather than alarm, in the ordinary course of a thinking life. His writing aims for clarity above all. He has little patience for jargon and even less for false certainty, preferring instead to set out timeless and contested ideas as fairly as he can and then step back. Where faith and reason pull in different directions, he resists the urge to decide for the reader. He would rather lay the evidence and the arguments side by side, in plain language, and trust the reader to weigh them and reach a considered judgment. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: Very Good. 2005 John Donald paperback edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. Contents: Sally Mapstone, 'Introduction: Older Scots and the Fifteenth Century'; Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards, 'Bodleian MS Arch. Selden. B. 24: The Genesis and Evolution of a Scottish Poetical Anthology'; Alessandra Petrina, 'Donne Gentili and Courtly Ladies: A Comparison Between Dante's Beatrice and the Lady of the Kingis Quair'; Jonathan A. Glenn, 'The Manuscript History of Sir Gilbert Hay's Buke of the Law of Armys: A Study'; Rosemary Greentree, 'Literate in Love: Makyne's Lesson for Robene'; Klaus Bitterling, 'Insular and Continental Traditions Behind Robert Henryson's Fables'; R.J. Lyall, 'Henryson, the Hens and the Pelagian Fox: a Poet and the Intellectual Currents of his Age'; John McNamara, 'Folkloric Patterns in Henryson's Fables: A Sociolinguistic Approach'; John MacQueen, 'Lent and Henryson's 'The Fox, the Wolf, and the Cadger''; R.W. Smith, 'The Meaning of the 'Nekhering' in Henryson's Fable of 'The Fox, the Wolf, and the Cadger''; Edward W. Bradburn, ''Prolog' and 'Moralitie': Authorial Apostrophe in Robert Henryson's Fables'; Anne M. McKim, 'Henryson's Use of the Conjunctive Phrase 'with that' in the Moral Fables'; J. Derrick McClure, 'Blind Hary's Metrics'; Marace Dareau, Lorna Pike, and Harry D. Watson, 'DOST and Older Scots Scholarship'; Sally Mapstone, 'Introduction: Older Scots and the Sixteenth Century'; Priscilla Bawcutt, 'Manuscript Miscellanies in Scotland from the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century'; Ma. Nieves Rodriguez Ledesma, 'Linguistic Anglicisation in The Complaynt of Scotland: A Study of Further Diagnostic Variables'; A.A. MacDonald, 'On First Looking into the Gude and Godlie Ballatis (1565)'; Joanne Norman, 'William Dunbar and the Bakhtinian Construction of the Self'; Robert Drexler, 'Dunbar, Douglas, and the Art of Memory'; C. Marie Harker, 'Skirting the Issue: Misogyny and Gender in Lyndsay's Ane Supplication Directit - to the Kingis Grace, in Contemptioun of Syde Taillis'; Evelyn S. Newlyn, 'The Female Voice in Sixteenth-Century Scots Poetry'; Keely Fisher, 'Eldritch Comic Verse in Older Scots'; Theo van Heijnsbergen, 'Modes of Self-Representation in Older Scots Texts'; Janet Hadley Williams, ''We had the ky and thai gat bot the glaikis': Catching the Echoes in Duncan Laideus' Testament'; William Gillies, 'Gun ann ach an ceo 'Nothing Left but their Mist': Farewell and Elegy in Gaelic Poetry'; Michael Chesnutt, 'Otterburn Revisited: A Late Medieval Border Ballad and its Transmission'; Sally Mapstone, 'Introduction: Older Scots and the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries'; Anneli Meurman-Solin, 'Women's Scots: Gender-Based Variation in Renaissance Letters'; Sarah M. Dunnigan, 'Feminising the Early Modern Erotic: Female-voiced Love Lyrics and Mary Queen of Scots'; Jamie Reid-Baxter, ''Judge and revenge my cause': the Earl of Morton, Andro Blackhall, Robert Sempill and the Fall of the House of Hamilton in 1579'; David J. Parkinson, 'Alexander Montgomerie: Scottish Author'; Regina Scheibe, 'The Function of the Animal Massacre in John Burel's Passage of the Pilgremer'; Daniel Fischlin, 'Like a Mercenary Poet': the Politics and Poetics of James VI's Lepanto'; Morna R. Fleming, ''The End of an Auld Sang'? Scottish Poetry of the English Reign of James VI and I'; Louise Yeoman, 'James Melville and the Covenant of Grace'; David W. Atkinson, 'More than One Voice: the Poetic Accomplishment of William Alexander'; David Reid, 'Hume of Godscroft on Kings and Subjects'; Margery Palmer McCulloch, 'Liz Lochhead, Mary Queen of Scots, and the Suppression of the Female Principle'.…

Broschüre. Condición: New. 1. Specht, Julia; Klaus, Julius; Wang, Shiwen Sven; Rüßmann, Jo; Wedel, Kristina; Jahchan, Chantal; Studer, Meg; Mladenovski, Viktoria (ilustrador).

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. For as long as people have told stories, they have told of wonders that should not be possible. But what is really happening when we call something a miracle?From a child cured against the odds to a saint said to defy gravity, claims of the impossible run through every culture and every age. They inspire devotion in some and suspicion in others, yet they rarely get the patient, clear-eyed attention they deserve. Miracles in a Nutshell: Faith, Reason, and the Question of the Impossible offers exactly that: a calm, balanced guide through one of humanity's most persistent and divisive ideas.This is not a book that sets out to prove or disprove. Instead, Miracles in a Nutshell: Faith, Reason, and the Question of the Impossible walks the reader along the line where belief meets argument, weighing what the faithful affirm, what the skeptic asks, and what honest reflection can hold open. It draws on philosophy, history, science, and the world's religious traditions to show why these questions still matter and why they refuse to settle.A clear account of what people across traditions have actually meant by the impossible made realThe strongest arguments for belief, and the strongest arguments against, presented fairly side by sideHow natural law, probability, and the limits of evidence shape what we are willing to acceptThe roles of testimony, healing claims, and reported wonders in shaping religious lifePractical ways to think about extraordinary claims without cynicism or credulityWritten in the warm, accessible style of the In a Nutshell series, Miracles in a Nutshell: Faith, Reason, and the Question of the Impossible respects both the believer and the doubter. It asks better questions rather than handing down easy answers, leaving the reader more thoughtful, more curious, and better equipped to weigh wonder against reason. For anyone who has ever paused at the edge of the impossible and wondered what to make of it, here is a concise companion for the journey. About the Author Theo Michael Williams is an independent researcher with a background in the history and philosophy of religion. For many years he has been drawn to the ways religious traditions have understood the extraordinary, reading widely across scripture, philosophy, and the accounts that ordinary people give of events they cannot explain. What holds his attention is not whether such stories can be proven, but how questions about miracles and the limits of the explicable can be approached thoughtfully, with curiosity rather than alarm, in the ordinary course of a thinking life. His writing aims for clarity above all. He has little patience for jargon and even less for false certainty, preferring instead to set out timeless and contested ideas as fairly as he can and then step back. Where faith and reason pull in different directions, he resists the urge to decide for the reader. He would rather lay the evidence and the arguments side by side, in plain language, and trust the reader to weigh them and reach a considered judgment. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…