Reason and Faith Themes from Richard Swinburne

by Bergmann, Michael; Brower, Jeffrey E.

• ISBN13: 9780191796869
• ISBN10: 0191796867
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2016-06-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Michael Bergmann, Purdue University,Jeffrey E. Brower, Purdue University

Michael Bergmann is Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University. In addition to numerous articles in epistemology and philosophy of religion in journals and edited volumes, he is author of Justification without Awareness (OUP, 2006) and co-editor of Challenges to Religious and Moral Belief (OUP, 2014) and Divine Evil? The Moral Character of the God of Abraham (OUP, 2011).


Jeffrey E. Brower is Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University. His areas of specialization are medieval philosophy, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion. He is the author of Aquinas's Ontology of the Material World (OUP, 2014) and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Abelard (CUP, 2004). He has also published widely in the areas of medieval philosophy, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion.

Table of Contents

I. Natural Theology
Faith
1. The Idea of Faith as Trust: Lessons in Noncognitivist Approaches to Faith, Jonathan L. Kvanvig
2. Working with Swinburne: Belief, Value, and the Religious Life, J. L. Schellenberg
Theistic Arguments
3. Simplicity and Natural Theology, Paul Draper
4. Swinburne's Aesthetic Appeal, Hud Hudson
Divine Power
5. Defining Omnipotence, Dean Zimmerman
6. Law, Cause, and Occasionalism, Alvin Plantinga
II. Philosophical Theology
Atonement and Liturgy
7. Love and Forgiveness: Swinburne on Atonement, Eleonore Stump
8. The Liturgical Present Tense, Nicholas Wolterstorff
Immortality, Body, and Soul
9. The Rev'd Mr Bayes and the Life Everlasting, Peter van Inwagen
10. What about Hylomorphism? Some Medieval and Recent Ruminations on Swinburne's Dualism, Marilyn McCord Adams