Some earlier modern theologians, including Rudolf Bultmann, insisted that “mature” modern people do not believe in miracles and that “no one can or does seriously maintain” such early Christian perspectives.12 Bultmann, however, unwittingly excluded from the modern world the majority of the world’s population, as I shall illustrate, in a manner that current sensitivities would regard as inexcusably ethnocentric (although there is no reason to believe that he, unlike a scholar I will address later,