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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777966803321

Autore

Swinburne Richard

Titolo

The coherence of theism / / Richard Swinburne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Clarendon Press, , 1977

ISBN

0-19-159858-5

1-281-98911-8

9786611989118

0-19-151970-7

Edizione

[Revised edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vi, 312 pages)

Collana

Clarendon library of logic and philosophy

Disciplina

211/.3

Soggetti

God - Attributes

Language and languages - Religious aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Preface to Revised Edition""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""1. Introduction""; ""Part I. Religious Language""; ""2. Conditions for Coherence��(1)""; ""3. Conditions for Coherence��(2)""; ""4. The Words of Theology��(1) Words with Old and New Senses""; ""5. The Words of Theology��(2) Medieval and Modern Accounts""; ""6. Attitude Theories""; ""Part II. A Contingent God""; ""7. An Omnipresent Spirit""; ""8. Free and Creator of the Universe""; ""9. Omnipotent""; ""10. Omniscient""; ""11. Perfectly Good and a Source of Moral Obligation""; ""12. Eternal and Immutable""

""Part III. A Necessary God"" ""13. Kinds of Necessity""; ""14. A Necessary Being""; ""15. Holy and Worthy of Worship""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

The author investigates what it means, and whether it is coherent, to say that there is a God, concluding that, despite philosophical objections, the claims which religious believers make about God are generally coherent. Sometimes the words by which this is expressed are used in a stretched sense, but theologians acknowledge the fact.