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Signs and Wonders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

Martin Redfern
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‘“If Christ rose from the dead, His religion and His doctrine are divine; but Christ rose again from the dead, therefore His religion and His doctrine are divine.” The first of these propositions is true; because, if Christ rose from the dead, it must have been by His own power, or by the power of God; if by His own power, by that very fact He would prove Himself God; if by the power of God, this would prove beyond doubt His divine mission … The second proposition, namely, but Christ rose again, only asserts one of the most certain historical facts … This miracle is the object of the attacks of all the incredulous, for this once admitted, no one could deny the divine mission and the Divinity of Jesus Christ.

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Research Article
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Life of the Spirit , Volume 18 , Issue 212 , May 1964 , pp. 478 - 488
Copyright
Copyright © 1964 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

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References

1 The Creed Explained; by A. Devine.

2 The Old Testament as Word of God (Oxford, 1960), p. 36

3 op. cit., p. 38.

4 Theology and Disbelief, in LIFE OF THE SPIRIT, October 1962.

5 From the essay With or Without Faith?, republished in The Study of Theology (London, 1962), p. 45.

6 It is on this point that I differ from Mr Wicker, whose extremely illuminating approach I have followed closely in other respects. As I understand him, in the article cited Mr Wicker seems to argue that Christian faith follows logically from an understanding of the dramatic world of the scriptures; that, in other words, contrary to Christian tradition and to the explicit words of the first Vatican Council Constitutio de Fide (Denzinger 3008, 3010, 3035), faith can somehow be inferred from the internal coherence of revealed truth which is in fact only a powerful motive to faith.

7 Laity, Church and World (London, 1960), p. 77.

8 Denzinger 3033 and 3034. My translation.

9 Denzinger 3009. My translation and italics.

10 cf Culture and Liturgy (London, 1963); by Brian Wicker. In this exciting and stimulating book Mr Wicker admirably argues the need for Christian commitment to the idea of a common culture, and shows how the gospel, ever made present in the liturgy of the community of the faithful, is thereby essentially manifested by all the faithful to all unbelievers.