Title: Pagan-Christian conflict over miracle in the second century /
Authors: Remus, Harold, 1928-
Publisher: Philadelphia Patristic Foundation,
Year: 1983
Subjects: Miracles History
Contents: "Miracle" : demarcations, explanations, and social dimensions. A paradigm ; The ordinary and the extraordinary ; Explanation of the extraordinary : inexplicability and miracle ; Language and miracle ; Miracle and its social and cultural matrices ; Miracle and sociology of knowledge -- Asclepius piety : case studies in conflict. Mainstream piety, Asclepius, and Jesus : Aelius Aristides ; Philosophy, Asclepius, and Jesus : Celsus ; Celsus vs. Justin : social and cultural worlds in conflict ; Oracles and Asclepius : Alexander of Abonoteichos and others ; Conclusion -- Appendices. Herodotus and the wondrous ; Divination and cultural diffusion ; The ignorance of bygone ages contrasted with present knowledge in the understanding of miracle ; On the definition of "gnostic" ; Plotinus and gnostic thaumaturgy ; Studies of Lucian's Alexander the False Prophet.