Klappentext

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.

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

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Klappentext
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.

Zusammenfassung
Gives an analysis of the important arguments for theism: the cosmological argument; arguments from the existence of laws of nature and the 'fine-tuning' of the universe; from the occurrence of consciousness and moral awareness; and from miracles and religious experience. This book focuses on the nature of consciousness and the problem of evil.

Inhalt

• 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