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Revelation

From Metaphor to Analogy

by Richard Swinburne

  • Paperback
  • 384 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 15.5 x 21 x 2.1 cm

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The great religions often claim that their books or creeds contain truths revealed by God. How could we know that they do? In the second edition of Revelation, renowned philosopher of religion Richard Swinburne addresses this central question. But since the books of great religions often contain much poetry and parable, Swinburne begins by investigating how eternal truth can be conveyed in unfamiliar genres, by analogy and metaphor, within false presuppositions about science and history. In the final part of the book, Swinburne then applies the results of Parts I and II to assessing the evidence that the teaching of the Christian Church constitutes a revelation from God. In the course of his philosophical exploration, Swinburne considers how the church which Jesus founded is to be identified today and presents a sustained discussion of which passages in the Bible should be understood literally and which should be understood metaphorically. This is a fuller and entirely rewritten second edition of Revelation, the most notable new feature of which is a long chapter examining whether traditional Christian claims about personal morality (divorce, homosexuality, abortion, etc.) can be regarded as revealed truths.A formal appendix shows how the structure of evidence supporting the Christian revelation can be articulated in terms of the probability calculus (and shows that Plantinga's well-known argument from 'dwindling probabilities' against probabilistic arguments of this kind is not cogent).
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  • Author

    Richard Swinburne

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    July 2007

  • Edition

    2nd Revised edition

  • Weight

    491g

  • Page Count

    384

  • Dimensions

    15.5 x 21 x 2.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780199212477

  • ISBN-10

    0199212473

  • Eden Code

    1002647

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