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Special Section: Spirituality/Medicine Interface ProjectWhat Is a Miracle? Daniel P. Sulmasy,OFM,MD,PhDAbstract:Based on arguments from theology and the philosophy ofscience, a miracle may be defined as: (1) a real, individual event, theoccurrence of which must be (or must have been), at least in prin-ciple, susceptible to empirical verification; (2) an event which mustbe extremely unusual or historically unprecedented from the per-spective of empirical scientific knowledge; (3) must evoke wide-spread wonder; (4) must be something freely given by God and notconjured; (5) must be understood as a special sign from God thattranscends the bare facts of the case and communicates a spiritualmessage; and (6) must have been affirmed as a miracle by thecommunity of believers to whom the message of the miracle must beaddressed, at least issue of theSouthern Medical Journalundoubtedlyrepresents the first time a multi-article section of a medicaljournal has been devoted to the subject of miracles.
What Is a Miracle? Daniel P. Sulmasy, OFM, MD, PhD Abstract: Based on arguments from theology and the philosophy of science, a miracle may be defined as: (1) a real, individual event, the occurrence of which must be (or must have been), at least in prin-
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