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Examine the way in which one philosopher understands the term miracle
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Examine the way in which one philosopher understands the term miracle (6 marks) Thomas Aquinas understood miracles to be 'those things done by divine power apart from the order usually followed in things'. So in other words those things that God did, that nature cannot do, this is the most traditional approach to defining a miracle. It is effectively a breach of a law of nature, contradicting our regular experience of how the world works. Aquinas gave the example of a reversal in the course of the sun; this is the first type of miracle put forward by Aquinas. Apart from this conventional approach to defining a miracle, Aquinas put forward two other additional types of miracles; Acts that God did, that nature could do but not in the same order. For instance, recovering from a terminal illness, it's not logically impossible for this type of miracle to happen; they are just not...
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