miraculismn.

1861 Q. Rev. 110 374 He would be unable to assign them [sc. certain natural phenomena] to..any one of the existing Pantheon of scientific causes or principles, and he would therefore suppose a new one... Call it, if you will, the miraculous fluid, or miraculism, or the Thaumaturgic Power.

1898 R. L. Dabney Christ our Penal Substitute viii. 73 Perhaps our opponents should have given the Bible, notwithstanding its offensive traits of inspiration and ‘miraculism’, this much of credit, as not to be so silly and stupid as to contradict itself by then proceeding to teach penal substitution.

1905 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 16 113 There is no hope of bringing into harmony the ideals [of rationalism and religion] as long as miraculism is interposed as a barrier to create the doctrine of ‘two truths’.

1987 Guardian 13 Mar. 14/8 To set Greek history in its proper Near Eastern context is a necessary antidote to all miraculism.

1993 Representations No. 41. 34 Under the pretext of liberating from the text of John its deepest spiritual or existential significance, Bultmann removes not only its materialist miraculism but also the references to the sacrament of the Eucharist.