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Niels Christian Hvidt, Mirakler – Møder mellem Himmel og Jord,
Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 2002
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- What is a miracle
- The Turin Shroud
- Eucharistic miracles
- The Blood of San Gennaro
- The story of Little Audrey Santos
- Padre Pio – a stigmatised priest
- Seeing without pupils
- Myrna of Soufanieh
- Vassula Rydén, housewife and prophet
- The weeping Madonna in Civitavecchia
- The weeping icon at the convent in Malevě
- The Holy Theodora’s trees
- The miracle on Kefalonia
- The miracle of the Holy Fire in Jerusalem
- Christian exorcism
- Empirical proof of miracles
- Miracles – a Northern European perspective
- The place of miracles in the modern world picture
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| Bibliography |
276 |
| List of illustrations |
280 |
| Notes |
286 |
| Index of names |
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The word 'Miacle' comes from the Latin ‘mirari’, ‘to wonder at’.
Both believers and non-believers will wonder at the religious miracles
from around the world recounted by Niels Christian Hvidt in this book.
Through matter-of-fact description of both the inexplicable events themselves
and the scientific examination of them, through interviews with the people
involved and, not least, through a wealth of illustrations the reader is
allowed a close look at incredible and, in any rate, inexplicable events:
Madonna statues crying tears of blood, hosts which turn into human flesh,
a housewife who receives prophecies, self-igniting candles in the Church of
the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and, closer to home, in Copenhagen, a Russian
icon which suddenly starts secreting oil.
The fifteen chapters about modern-day miracles widen the mind of the reader
and raise the question of how these phenomena may be fitted into our modern
world picture. In a number of background articles Niels Christian Hvidt examines
the historical and present-day role of miracles in theology and in science.
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