Seeks to understand the meaning and the function of the miracles of Jesus and of the miracle reports in the Gospels. Also discusses the theological implications of belief in the miraculous and intellectual objections that have been raised against the possibility or reality of miracles. Students work inductively on various texts in the Gospels that report miraculous events, seeking to learn what the historical Jesus and the Gospel writers aimed to accomplish and to teach by means of the miracles and miracle reports.