Do You Believe In Miracles? (And Can You Do So Reasonably?) | W. Matthews Grant

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🗓️ 18 December 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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W. Matthews Grant is Professor and Chair in the Department of Philosophy at University of St. Thomas (MN), and Associate Editor of the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly. His articles have focused on Aquinas and the Philosophy of God, particularly issues having to do with the divine nature and God’s relationship to human freedom. His new book Free Will and God’s Universal Causality: The Dual Sources Account, draws resources from Aquinas and the scholastic tradition to explain how libertarian creaturely freedom can be reconciled with robust accounts of God’s providence, grace, and predestination.

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0:24.6	Do you believe in miracles?
0:30.6	Um, anybody, some of you, I think, are old enough to know where I'm getting that title.
0:38.3	Yeah, where am I getting in?
0:40.3	Miracle on Ice.
0:42.3	Can such belief be reasonable?
0:45.3	Oops.
0:46.3	Al Michaels, you remember in 1980?
0:48.3	And look at this TV, so that it's monitors or whatever, right?
0:53.3	When the U. the Soviets in the semifinals,
1:01.0	I want to say that with the gold medal,
1:04.0	but it was actually in the semifinal round,
1:06.0	and that was his great line at the end of that game.
1:10.0	Do you believe in miracles?
1:13.0	And can't be reasonable to believe in them?
1:19.6	Some of you may recognize that guy.
1:22.5	Richard Dawkins, one of the so-called new atheists.
1:28.3	He doesn't think so.
1:32.3	A couple of passages from Dawkins here.
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