Existence Of God (Reprinted)

Introduction
1. Inductive Arguments
2. The Nature Of Explanation
3. The Justification Of Explanation
4. Complete Explanation
5. The Intrinsic Probability Of Theism
6. The Explanatory Power Of Theism: General Considerations
7. The Cosmological Argument
8. Teleological Arguments
9. Arguments From Consciousness And Morality
10. The Argument From Providence
11. The Problem Of Evil
12. Arguments From History And Miracles
13. The Argument From Religious Experience
14. The Balance Of Probability
Additional Note 1: The Trinity
Additional Note 2: Recent Arguments To Design From Biology
Additional Note 3: Plantinga’s Argument Against Evolutionary Naturalism

Additional Info
Richard Swinburne presents a substantially rewritten and updated edition of his most celebrated book. No other work has made a more powerful case for the probability of the existence of God. Swinburne gives a rigorous and penetrating analysis of the most important arguments for theism: the cosmological argument; arguments from the existence of laws of nature and the ‘fine-tuning’ of the universe; from the occurrence of consciousness and moral awareness; and from miracles and religious experience. He claims that while none of these arguments are deductively valid, they do give inductive support to theism and that, even when the argument from evil is weighed against them, taken together they offer good grounds to support the probability that there is a God.

The overall structure of the discussion and its conclusion have been retained for this new edition, but much has been changed in order to strengthen the argumentation and to take account of Swinburne’s subsequent work on the nature of consciousness and the problem of evil, and of the latest philosophical and scientific writing, especially in respect of the laws of nature and the argument from fine-tuning. This is now the definitive version of a classic in the philosophy of religion.