Miracles are not confined to the stories of Scripture; these signs of God's presence and power in creation are experienced throughout our daily existence. Yet cultural challenges and modernity's skepticism have marginalized belief in them as unreasonable and irrational, says Luke Timothy Johnson. In this excellent resource for church professionals, Johnson reclaims Christian belief in miracles as integral to recovering a proper and strong sense of creation, recognizing the validity of personal experience and narrative and asserting the truth-telling quality of myth. His analysis includes: a description of the competing symbolic worldviews that have framed the discussion on miracles, including secular debates and theological imagination; interpretation of miracles consonant with the biblical construction of reality in the Old and New Testaments; suggestions for four areas in the church's life—teaching, preaching, prayer, and pastoral care—that can work together to shape a symbolic world, within which believers can expect, perceive, and celebrate the miracles in everyday life.

ルーク・ティモシー・ジョンソンは本作で、合理主義が「迷信」とした奇跡を、世界の息吹として鮮やかに復権させます。奇跡を単なる超常現象ではなく、日常に潜む聖なる兆しとして捉え直す彼の筆致は圧巻です。既存の硬直した世界観を揺さぶり、目に見えぬ真理を読み解く「象徴的世界観」の提示は、現代人の乾いた感性に響く究極の救いと言えるでしょう。 文学的な白眉は、神話や個人の物語が持つ「真実を語る力」を再定義する点にあります。祈りや対話を通じ、身近な奇跡を感知するプロセスは、読者に世界を新たな眼差しで愛でる勇気を与えます。知性と信仰が情熱的に交錯する本書は、閉塞した現実を鮮やかに突き破り、魂を解放へと導く至高の導引書なのです。