Revelation
From Metaphor to Analogy
Swinburne, Richard Emeritus Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion, University of Oxford; Fellow of the British Academy
Print publication date: 2007 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2007
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-921246-0







doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199212460.003.0013

Richard Swinburne
Abstract: This book has argued that the Christian revelation satisfies the four tests of a genuine revelation from God very well: the content of the original revelation is plausible, it was confirmed by a miracle, it has been interpreted by a church in a plausible way, and the interpretation is plausibly true. No other purported revelation satisfies these tests nearly as well. There is plenty of scope for the Christian Church to develop its interpretations yet further.

Keywords: miracle, the Church, God, plausible,

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Part I Meaning
Part II Evidence of a Revelation
Part III The Christian Revelation