The Existence of God. Second edition. By Richard Swinburne. Pp. viii + 363. Oxford University Press, 2004. isbn 0 19 927167 4 and 927168 2. Hardback £50; paper £17.99
Since it first appeared in 1979, this book has rightly been judged a classic of modern natural theology. It was expanded in 1991 by the addition of two appendices; now it appears in a completely revised version, with the 1991 appendices and much other new material incorporated into the text, and thr...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2006
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2006, Volume: 57, Issue: 1, Pages: 401-405 |
| Review of: | The existence of God (Oxford : Clarendon [u.a.], 2004) (Sturch, Richard)
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| Summary: | Since it first appeared in 1979, this book has rightly been judged a classic of modern natural theology. It was expanded in 1991 by the addition of two appendices; now it appears in a completely revised version, with the 1991 appendices and much other new material incorporated into the text, and three new ‘additional notes’ at the end., The four opening chapters lay down Swinburne's system of procedure. He first distinguishes between inductive arguments which make a conclusion actually probable (‘P-inductive’) and those which make it more probable than it would have been otherwise (‘C-inductive’). His own theistic arguments are to be of the latter kind. He then distinguishes scientific from personal explanation, and shows that the latter cannot be reduced to the former. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fli242 |
