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:10.1093/0198240708.003.0007
 

Richard Swinburne
God is supposed to be a person without a body, present everywhere.A person is a being with sophisticated mental properties. The identity of a person over time is unanalysable (it does not depend on physical or psychological continuity). God has no body because he is not tied down to acting or acquiring knowledge through a body. Being omnipresent, he knows what is happening and acts everywhere, without depending on some intermediate process for the efficacy of his actions or the truth of his beliefs.
Keywords: body, God, omnipresence, person, personal identity
doi:10.1093/0198240708.003.0007
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Part I Religious Language
Part II A Contingent God
Part III A Necessary God