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Miracle, Mentality, and Meaning in Beda Venerabilis: A Case Study

The article sidesteps a purely analytical approach to the problem of miracles by posing the historical question of what presuppositions and implications (in terms of Weltanschauung) come with actual belief in miracles. For exemplification, it analyzes the Ecclesiastical History of the Venerable Bede (672–735), a work that refers to miracles on virtually each page: What is the mindset here that makes belief in miracles not just a plausible option, but even an unquestioned one? In conclusion the article suggests (this being no logically necessary implication, however) that a world like Bede's has become so profoundly strange to us that miracles as one of its vital components must vanish as well.