Reason and the Christian Religion Essays in Honour of Richard Swinburne

by Padgett, Alan G.

• ISBN13: 9780198240426
• ISBN10: 0198240422
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-02-02
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

Richard Swinburne is one of the most distinguished philosophers of religion of our day. In this volume, many notable British and American philosophers unite to honor him and to discuss various topics to which he has contributed significantly. These include general topics in the philosophy of religion such as revelation, and faith and reason, and the specifically Christian doctrines of the Trinity, the Incarnation, and atonement. In the spirit of the movement which Swinburne spearheaded, the essays use analytic philosophical methods to examine doctrines in particular religious traditions, expanding upon traditional discussions of theism. As such, this volume represents a field-report on the interaction of philosophy and Christian thought in the English-speaking world. Swinburne has himself contributed an individual and personal Intellectual Autobiography.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. v
List of Contributors	p. xi
Intellectual Autobiography	p. 1
Faith and Reason	p. 19
Swinburne on Faith and Belief	p. 21
Swinburne's Argument from Religious Experience	p. 39
Mystical Perception: St Teresa, William Alston, and the Broadminded Atheist	p. 65
The Nature of Reason: Locke, Swinburne, and Edwards	p. 91
Revelation	p. 119
Did Revelation Cease?	p. 121
The Communication of Divine Revelation	p. 143
Revelation and Biblical Exegesis: Augustine, Aquinas, and Swinburne	p. 161
Trinity and Incarnation	p. 199
Not by Confusion of Substance, but by Unity of Person	p. 201
Neither Confounding the Persons nor Dividing the Substance	p. 227
Atonement	p. 245
Is the Doctrine of the Atonement a Mistake?	p. 247
Reflections on the Atonement	p. 265
Swinburne on Guilt, Atonement, and Christian Redemption	p. 277
Theological Anthropology	p. 301
Body and Soul: Physical Properties and Cartesian Mind	p. 303
The Problem of Evil: A Deontological Perspective	p. 329
A Select Bibliography of the Works of Richard Swinburne	p. 353
Index of Names and Scripture	p. 359
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