What is a Miracle?
Fascinating reading.
Creation, Providence, and Miracle
In treating divine action in the world, we must distinguish between creation, providence, and miracle. Creation has typically been taken to involve God’s originating the world (creatio originans) and His sustaining the world in being (creatio continuans). A careful analysis of these two notions serves to differentiate creation from conservation. Providence is God’s control of the world, either through secondary causes (providentia ordinaria) or supernaturally (providentia extraordinaria). A doctrine of divine middle knowledge supplies the key to understanding God’s providence over the world mediated through secondary causes. Miracles are extraordinary acts of providence which should not be conceived, properly speaking, as violations of the laws of nature, but as the production of events which are beyond the causal powers of the natural entities existing at the relevant time and place.
(H/T: Funky P)
