Miracles and the Protestant Imagination

The Reformation's war against the saints and their miracles is well known. The story of the Protestant Reformers' embrace of natural wonders as miracles that could similarly spur piety and moral discipline is much less familiar. In Miracles and the Protestant Imagination Philip M. Soergel examines the sixteenth-century Lutheran wonder books works filled with accounts of monstrous births celestial apparitions natural disasters plagues and other seemingly aberrant events occurring in the natural world.