Faith and Reason

✍ Scribed by Richard Swinburne

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 287
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Richard Swinburne presents a new edition of one of his classic works on philosophical theology. Faith and Reason is a self-standing examination of the implications for religious faith of Swinburne's famous arguments about the coherence of theism and the existence of God. Swinburne analyzes the purposes of practicing a religion, and argues that religious faith requires belief that a particular creed provides the rationale for supposing that these purposes will be achieved. While maintaining the same structure and conclusions as the original, this second edition has been substantially rewritten, both in order to relate its ideas more closely to those of classical theologians and philosophers and to respond to more recent views.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
1. The Nature of Belief......Page 13
2. Rational Belief......Page 43
3. The Value of Rational Religious Belief......Page 92
4. The Nature of Faith......Page 146
5. The Purpose of Religion......Page 168
6. The Role of Creeds......Page 206
7. The Comparison of Creeds......Page 240
Epilogue: Faith is Voluntary......Page 273
Concordance......Page 278
B......Page 280
D......Page 281
H......Page 282
L......Page 283
P......Page 284
S......Page 285
V......Page 286
W......Page 287