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Carol Bhaskar 'Miracles are a matter of faith, not fact', discuss. Rudolh Bultmann once said ' It is impossible to use the electric light and the wireless and to avail ourselves to modern medical and surgical discoveries and at the same time to believe in the New Testament world of miracles'1. What is it to speak of 'miracles'? how can we define what Bultmann rejects? The traditional perception of a miracle involves three clauses. Firstly, a remarkable 'transgression of a law of nature', which is 'by the particular volition of the Deity or by the interposition of some invisible agent'2. This is to borrow Hume's stipulated definition, but Hume fails state the third clause mentioned. This is a corollary of the presence of 'a deity; that this event has some religious consequence. Swinburne's offered definition perhaps becomes helpful here; a miracle is 'an event of an extraordinary kind, brought about by...

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