Swinburne, Richard Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion, University of Oxford
Print publication date: 1993 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online:
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-824070-9
doi:10.1093/0198240708.003.0015
 

Richard Swinburne
A being with the properties described in Chs. 7–14 of this book would be worthy of worship, both because of his nature and status and because he is our supreme benefactor. And finally, he would be holy. Because at least one of the predicates used in the description of the divine properties is used in an analogical sense, the only way to show that the claim that there is a God is coherent is to provide evidence that it is probably true. That holds because we cannot fully understand what it would be like for the claim that there is a God to be true.
Keywords: analogy, coherence, God, holy, supreme benefactor, worship
doi:10.1093/0198240708.003.0015
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Part I Religious Language
Part II A Contingent God
Part III A Necessary God