![]() Sometimes critics have dismissed miracle stories in the Gospels and Acts simply because they recount miracles. My regular job is as a New Testament scholar, and one of my interests is historical study about Jesus and his first followers. Why has this been an important subject for you to write about? You wrote a two-volume book on miracles in 2011, a topic you revisit in this current book. Freelance writer and editor of The Worldview Bulletin Christopher Reese spoke with Keener about the reasons for widespread skepticism of miracles and about some of the amazing stories his new book recounts. Ten years ago, prominent New Testament scholar Craig Keener assembled a large collection of this evidence in his two-volume work Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts, and he returns to the topic in his latest publication, Miracles Today: The Supernatural Work of God in the Modern World. ![]() At the same time, however, there is a growing body of documented evidence, as well as compelling stories by credible witnesses, of miracles taking place. ![]() Skepticism about supernatural intervention in human affairs-rooted in the Enlightenment, especially the writings of philosopher David Hume-has become mainstream in the modern mind. In the halls of the academy as well as on the street, there is no more controversial aspect of the Bible than its accounts of miracles.
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