RT Review
T1 God in the Age of Science? A Critique of Religious Reason. By Herman Philipse
JF The journal of theological studies
VO 64
IS 2
SP 856
OP 864
A1 Taliaferro, Charles
LA English
YR 2013
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1783733551
AB Herman Philipse has produced a book very much in the tradition of John Mackie’s The Miracle of Theism. Philipse’s God in the Age of Science? is a sustained critique of the contemporary philosophical defence of theism, focusing largely on critically evaluating the work of Richard Swinburne. The book is not as nuanced and rigorous as Mackie’s work, probably because the scope and conclusions are more ambitious than The Miracle of Theism. Mackie held that theism is implausible, but not incoherent, whereas Philipse argues for both the implausibility and the incoherence of theism. There are three parts: ‘Natural Theology’, ‘Theism as a Theory’, and ‘The Probability of Theism’. If Philipse is correct, it is unreasonable to accept traditional forms of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1093/jts/flt150