Review of In Defense of Miracles (1999, 2005)

Richard Carrier

1. Summary

2. What’s Good and Bad

3. The Philosophical Problem

(a) The Shaky Groundwork of Corduan and Purtill

(b) Nash on Naturalism vs. Christian Theism

(c) Moreland’s “Christian Science”

(d) Beck’s Argument for God

4. The Historical Problem

(a) Beckwith on Historiography

(b) Geivett’s Exercise in Hyperbole

(c) Clark’s Survey of Other Religions

(d) Newman on Prophecy as Miracle

(e) Craig’s Empty Tomb & Habermas on Visions