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How One Modern Movement Redefined the Word Miracle

This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.

A Course in Miracles, first published in 1976 after Helen Schucman's claimed inner dictation between 1965 and 1972, uses the word miracle in a documented, deliberately different sense from the traditional one: not a suspension of natural law witnessed at a shrine or a historical event, but a shift in perception, a change in how a person sees a situation, that the text presents as available to anyone in ordinary daily experience.

That documented redefinition matters for a miracle entry because it shows the same word carries genuinely different meanings across different traditions and movements, and an entry on the category as a whole should record that honest variety rather than assuming every entry under it uses the term identically.

A miracle entry therefore notes, where a specific tradition or movement uses the word in a documented, distinct sense, what that sense actually is, since A Course in Miracles is not a source for evaluating its own theological claims, which remain the movement's own, but is a solid documented source for what the movement itself states the word to mean. The text's own documented three part structure, a workbook of daily lessons alongside the main text and a teacher's manual, is itself part of how the movement operationalizes this redefined sense of the word, and an entry notes that documented structure honestly as part of what the source describes.

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A Course in Miracles (Wikipedia)
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