A leading New Testament scholar not only addresses common questions about miracles but also demonstrates that miraculous works of God have been part of the church's experience around the world since Christianity began and that they continue into the present.

Contents

Preface: Get Up and Walk
Introduction: Miracles Books, Old and New
Part 1: Perspectives on Miracles
1. What Is a Miracle, Anyway?
2. Why Do Some People Assume That Miracles Don't Happen?
Worldviews
3. Why Do Some People Assume That Miracles Don't Happen?
David Hume
Part 2: Witnesses of Miracles
4. Are There Many Witnesses of Miracles?
5. Do Only Christians Report Christian Healings?
6. Is Healing Just a New Thing?
7. Baby Pics
Part 3: Videos and Doctors' Reports
8. Do Healings Ever Get Captured on Video?
9. Medically Attested Catholic Cures
10. A Few Vignettes of Brain Recovery
11. Back from Virtual Brain Death
12. More Medically Attested Twentieth-Century Cures
13. Some Medically Attested Twenty-First-Century Cures
14. Cancer Cures
15. Doctors Cured of Cancer
Part 4: "The Blind Receive Their Sight, the Lame Walk, the Lepers Are Cleansed, the Deaf Hear" (Matt. 11:5//Luke 7:22)
16. Do Blind People Still Receive Sight? Witnesses
17. Do Blind People Still Receive Sight? Doctors
18. Do Disabled People Still Walk? Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy
19. Do Disabled People Still Walk? Marlene's Cerebral Palsy
20. Do Disabled People Still Walk? Bryan's Spinal Injury
21. Do Disabled People Still Walk? Vignettes
22. Are Lepers Still Cleansed? Visible Healings
23. Do Deaf People Still Hear?
Part 5: "The Dead Are Raised" (Matt. 11:5//Luke 7:22)
24. Are the Dead Still Raised? History
25. Are the Dead Still Raised? Africa
26. Are the Dead Still Raised? Asia
27. Raised in the West? Cases in the News
28. Raised in the West? Cases That Don't Make the News
29. Doctors Who Witness Raisings
30. Friends Who Used to Be Dead or Met Those Who Had Been
31. Raised in Our Family
Part 6: Nature Miracles
32. Do Nature Miracles Still Happen?
33. Do You Know Any Witnesses to Nature Miracles?
Part 7: Kingdom Mysteries
34. A Firsthand Witness?
35. Why Don't We See More Miracles in the West?
36. Spiritual Factors and Miracles
37. When Healing Is Temporary
38. When Miracles Don't Happen
39. What Does the Bible Say about Non-healing?
40. Closing Personal Thoughts
Appendix A: Did Prayer Make Things Worse?
Appendix B: Some of Hume's Other Arguments
Appendix C: False Signs

"A must-read for those longing to know more about modern-day miracles"

Leading New Testament scholar Craig Keener demonstrates that miraculous works of God, which have been part of the experience of the church around the world since Christianity began, continue into the present.

"I invite anyone who thinks that miracles are the stuff of prescientific fantasy or that these supernatural signs simply don't happen today to pick up this book. I guarantee that he or she will be overwhelmed by the sheer number of credible accounts presented in these pages. Miracles Today is intelligently and engagingly written and will appeal to believers, nonbelievers, and honest seekers."
--Most Reverent Robert Barron, Bishop of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota

"Dr. Keener's superlative scholarship is evident. As a physician, I found Keener's descriptions of physical healing credible and compelling. This is a must-read for those longing to know more about modern-day miracles."
--Joseph Bergeron, MD, author of The Crucifixion of Jesus: A Medical Doctor Examines the Death and Resurrection of Christ

"Keener has done it again. In the midst of a global pandemic, in a time in which many people, including me, have suffered so much loss and so many deaths of loved ones, he encourages us to continue to trust God for miracles today and to believe that God is at work in our world."
--Lisa Bowens, Princeton Theological Seminary

"Here's clear and compelling evidence that God is still in the miracle business today. You'll be encouraged and inspired, led to wonder and worship, by Keener's persuasive research into God's supernatural activity among us. Don't miss this book!"
--Lee Strobel, founding director, Strobel Center for Evangelism and Applied Apologetics, Colorado Christian University; author of The Case for Miracles

"Miracles Today defends the claim that God still acts in miraculous ways in the contemporary world. Even in this ambiguous world, these miraculous signs offer inspiration and hope, pointing to a world where suffering and death will be no more."
--C. Stephen Evans, University Professor of Philosophy and Humanities, Baylor University

"This book is nothing short of stunning!"
--J. P. Moreland, Talbot School of Theology, Biola University