Introduction
Conceptions of the miraculous
Supernaturalistic conceptions of the miraculous
Teleology and the miraculous
Contextual criteria for the miraculous
Miracles and the laws of nature
The logical impossibility of a violation
Violations as nonrepeatable counterinstances to natural law
Objection #1: nonrepeatable counterinstances as falsifying a law
Objection #2: identifying nonrepeatable counterinstances
Objection #3: counterinstance as anomaly
A supernaturalistic conception of natural law
Identifying supernatural intrusions : an objection
The concept of supernatural cause as empty
A supernaturalistic response
Miracles and causes
What is a supernatural cause?
Nature as causally open
Trans-domain laws
Dualism and the supernatural
Supernatural explanation
Nowell-Smith and predictive expansion
Do explanations always rely on laws?
Paul Dietl's response to Nowell-Smith's challenge
Analysis of Dietl's response
Problems with Dietl's response
Divine agency in religious practice
Miracle as basic action
Must 'miracle' be conceived teleologically?
Divine agency without supernatural causation
Miracles and interaction
Miracles and natural causes
Miracle, mystery, and the God-of-the-gaps
Miracle and divine agency
The world as God's body
Basic mental acts
Psychokinesis as basic act
Non-basic divine agency
Divine agency and non-determined processes
The causal joint
Locating divine basic actions : how far down should we go?
Divine manipulation of microprocesses : an alternative
Arguments for divine basic actions at the macro level
Quantum gaps and special divine agency
A context for miracles
Thankability and the miraculous
Thankability and the subjective : an objection
Due thankability
Due thankability and apologetic
Miracle, coincidence, and counterfactual
Counterfactuals and basic actions.