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The coherence of theism [electronic resource]

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Oxford University Press, 1993 - Law - 312 pages
This book investigates what it means, and whether it is coherent, to say that there is a God. The author concludes that, despite philosophical objections, the claims which religious believers make about God are generally coherent; and that although some important claims are coherent only if the words by which they are expressed are being used in stretched or analogical senses, this is in fact the way in which theologians have usually claimed they are being used. This revised edition includes various minor corrections and clarifications.
  

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User Review  - Zachariah - Goodreads

Seems solid. A lot of it was hard to digest. Some was interesting. Some points were about things I'd never thought about, but were obviously real philosophic issues because he brought up the primary sources of whoever proposed the opposite view. Read full review

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User Review  - Jay Michael - Goodreads

This is THE quintessential work in the philosophy of religion. I think this is where all philosophy, metaphysics and theology should begin. Read full review

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Contents

RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE
9
Conditions for Coherencel II
11
Conditions for Coherence2
30
The Words of Theologyi
51
The Words of Theology2
74
Attitude Theories
88
A CONTINGENT
97
An Omnipresent Spirit
99
Omniscient
167
Perfectly Good and a Source of Moral Obligation
184
Eternal and Immutable
217
A NECESSARY
239
Kinds of Necessity
241
A Necessary Being
263
Holy and Worthy of Worship
291
INDEX
309

Free and Creator of the Universe
129
Omnipotent
153

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JSTOR: The Coherence of Theism.
THE COHERENCE OF THEISM. By RICHARD SWINBURNE. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1977. Pp. 302. $21.00. Professor Swinburne's book is so densely packed with argument ...
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The Coherence of Theism
The Coherence of Theism Book by Richard Swinburne; 1993. Read The Coherence of Theism at Questia library.
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Oxford Scholarship Online: The Coherence of Theism
Subject: Philosophy Book Title: The Coherence of Theism. The Coherence of Theism. Swinburne, Richard Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian ...
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The Coherence Theism
bume in defence of the coherence of theism, we clearly need to. ask whether the sort of thing which Swinburne is defending is ...
www.blackwell-synergy.com/ doi/ abs/ 10.1111/ j.1741-2005.1979.tb02428.x

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Introduction: The Resurrection of Theism
Richard Swinburne, as a result of his trilogy Faith and Reason, The Coherence of Theism, and The Existence of God,[17 ]has emerged as perhaps the world's ...
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The Coherence of the Hypothesis of an Omnipotent, Omniscient, Free ...
[1] Richard Swinburne, The Existence of God (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979), Chapter 5: See also Richard Swinburne, The Coherence of Theism (Oxford: ...
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456 BOOK REVIEWS Parkinson brings out in saying that Lukacs claims ...
issues relevant to the coherence of theism' (p. 184). The time was ripe. for this to be done and Swinburne has done it. Although the discussions ...
mind.oxfordjournals.org/ cgi/ reprint/ LXXXVIII/ 1/ 456.pdf

Theology Today - Vol 41, No. 1 - April 1984 - BOOK REVIEW - The ...
Special attention is given to Richard Swinburne's inductive version of several classical arguments (The Coherence of Theism and The Existence Of God); ...
theologytoday.ptsem.edu/ apr1984/ v41-1-bookreview2.htm

Philosophy of religion and the mirror of nature: Rorty's challenge ...
that The Coherence of Theism is only a necessary propaedeutic to a project ... cerned with "foundation" difficulties in The Coherence of Theism and with ...
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About the author (1993)

Richard Swinburne is at University of Oxford.

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