Faith and Reason

by RichardSwinburne (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2005

  $189.37

  Provides an examination of the implications for religious faith of Swinburne's arguments about the coherence of theism and the existence of God. This work analyses the purposes of practising a religion, and argues that religious faith requires belief that a particular creed provides the rationale for supposing that these purposes will be achieved.

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  Paperback
  1984

  $8.67

  This is the final volume of the trilogy on philosophical theology. Swinburne reaches the conclusion that the kind of faith necessary for religion involves both trust and belief, but a belief which supposes that a certain creed is more likely to be true than the creed of any rival religion. He does not in any way presuppose the results of the earlier volumes. 'The task that he set himself has been completed with immense power and elegance. Swinburne (like Hume) will surely be quoted as long as English-speaking philosophers think about the question of God' Fergus Kerr in The Tablet

• New

  Paperback
  2005

  $41.44

  Focusing on philosophical theology, this is an examination of the implications for religious faith of the author's famous arguments about the coherence of theism and the existence of God. It argues that we should practice that religion which has the best goals and is more probably true than the creeds of other religions.