Funkcja argumentacyjna cudów w pierwszych trzech wiekach Kościoła

Abstract

The author analyses the references to miracles and their function in the “Acts of the Apostles” and in the writings of Christian writers of the second and third centuries. He comes to the conclusion that miracles did not have the argumentations value only, but were also the signs of the presence of God and of the actualization of the redeeming economy. Only in this theological perspective they had the function of pointing to the divine mission of Messiah-Jesus and to the rightness of trust in him, the influence of grace being critical here; they also pinted to the topicality of the history of redemption. They possessed their argumentation strength in connection with all the economy of redemption, and first of all with its central event, Jesus Christ, his revelation, his death and resurrection.