thaumatophobia

Would Professor Stanley have been lowered in the eyes of his enlightened audience, or his own, had he added, "whichever way it was effected, we may well believe that God interposed in behalf of His devoted servant." We repeat, such thaumatophobia can only compare with hydrophobia!

1861 May 29, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, “Lectures on the History of the Eastern Church”, in The Dublin Review, volume I, page 104

Dr. Hatnmond’s views on Ecstasy, which are all the more interesting as the chapter is chiefly taken up with the discussion of the wonderful and perplexing case of Louise Lateau. The chapter should have followed the one on hydrophobia, and been entitled Thaumatophobia rather than Ecstasy, since the doctor exhibits a most contemptuous estimate of the intelligence of those who hold that there can be anything not explicable by the known laws of physiology in the most wonderful cases of ecstasia.

1876 June 29, William A. Hammond, “Hammond on the Nervous System.”, in The Catholic World, volume XXIII, number 135, page 399

Superficial investigation is all too likely to fall into extremes, both equally dangerous: thaumatoclasm or thaumatophobia, which systematically denies any supernatural intervention, or takes a purely negative attitude to events; and thaumatomania or thaumatophilia, which wallows in the paranormal and lets it guide one's life.

1979, Bonaventure Kloppenburg, Pastoral Practice and the Paranormal, Chicago, IL: Franciscan Herald Press, →ISBN, page 147