Spinoza on miracles

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 56 (1):41 - 51 (2004)
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Spinoza is supposed to have denied the existence of miracles. I argue that instead of denying them he offers his readers a way of understanding miracles within his own metaphysical system in which God and nature are identified. I then offer some historical conjectures as to why his view has been misunderstood so often and for so long

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10.1007/s11153-004-8034-5

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4. Spinoza: A Radical Protestant?Graeme Hunter - 2001 - In Michael J. Latzer & Elmar J. Kremer (eds.), The Problem of Evil in Early Modern Philosophy. University of Toronto Press. pp. 49-65.

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