The Existence of God

3. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-19-927167-2
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 372 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 655 g

The 1991 reissue added a couple of appendices, but this is a completely rewritten version
* No hardback edition has been available for 20 years

DESCRIPTION:

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:

Introduction; Inductive Arguments; The Nature of Explanation; The Justification of Explanation; Complete Explanation; The Intrinsic Probability of Theism; The Explanatory Power of Theism: General Considerations; The Cosmological Argument; Teleological Arguments; Arguments from Consciousness and Morality; The Argument from Providence; The Problem of Evil; Arguments from History and Miracles; The Argument from Religious Experience; 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

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of the philosophy of religion and theology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Swinburne, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Christliche Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

RICHARD SWINBURNE, formerly Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion, University of Oxford