Craig S. Keener Quotes

When one employs a method of verifying miracles that insists that they be replicable in controlled settings, yet regards as natural and nonmiraculous any event that is so replicable, one has framed the method so as to secure the expected antisupernatural outcome.

Craig S. Keener

• Miracles
• Method
• Secure
• Outcome
• Verifying
• Antisupernatural

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• When one employs a method of verifying miracles that insists that they be replicable in controlled settings, yet regards as natural and nonmiraculous any event that is so replicable, one has framed the method so as to secure the expected antisupernatural outcome.

  

  Craig S. Keener
  • Miracles
  • Method
  • Secure