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The Coherence of Theism

By Richard Swinburne

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
1977
ISBN
019824410X, 9780198244103, 9780191519703
LCC
BT130 .S94
Open Library ID
OL4539480M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1000 kB (1024142 bytes)
Series
Clarendon Library of Logic & Philosophy
Pages
308\323
Time added
2011-04-20 14:05:05

Description

God is often defined as a spirit who is present everywhere, knows everything, is able to do anything, is the creator of the world, is perfectly free, perfectly good, eternal, immutable, one whose commands impose obligations on individuals, and who is in some sense a necessary being. In The Coherence of Theism, the first volume in a highly acclaimed trilogy on the philosophy of religion, Richard Swinburne examines what it means, and whether it is coherent philosophically, to say that there is such a being. He concludes that, despite philosophical objections, many of the claims about God made by religious believers are in fact coherent. In addition, he discusses claims that do not cohere and demonstrates that some important claims cohere only if the words by which they are expressed are stretched or used analogously.

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