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Record Nr.

UNINA9910954088503321

Autore

Swinburne Richard

Titolo

The coherence of theism / / Richard Swinburne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Clarendon Press, , [1993]

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

212

Soggetti

God (Christianity) - Attributes

Language and languages - Religious aspects

Semantics (Philosophy) - Religious aspects

Theology

Religion - Philosophy

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

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.

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.