The existence of God / Richard Swinburne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Swinburne, Richard, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

God--Proof.

God.

Theism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 363 pages)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Richard Swinburne presents a substantially rewritten and updated edition of his most celebrated book. No other work has made a more powerful case for the probability of the existence of God. Swinburne argues compellingly that the existence of the universe, its law-governed nature and fine-tuning, human consciousness and moral awareness, and evidence of miracles and religious experience, all taken together (and despite the occurrence of pain and suffering), make it likely that there is a God.

Contents:

1. Inductive arguments

2. The nature of explanation

3. The justification of explanation

4. Complete explanation

5. The intrinsic probability of theism

6. The explanatory power of theism : general considerations

7. The cosmological argument

8. Teleological arguments

9. Arguments from consciousness and morality

10. The argument from providence

11. The problem of evil

12. Arguments from history and miracles

13. The argument from religious experience

14. The balance of probability

Additional note 1 : the Trinity

Additional note 2 : recent arguments to design from biology

Additional note 3 : Plantinga's argument against evolutionary naturalism.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-927168-2

1-280-84114-1

9786610841141

0-19-153394-7

1-4356-2274-X

OCLC:

191462411