Richard Swinburne Quotes on God
Richard Swinburne is a British philosopher of religion, long associated with the University of Oxford, and the most prolific defender of natural theology in late-twentieth-century analytic philosophy. This page collects quotes attributed to Richard Swinburne on the topic of god, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Richard Swinburne:
“On balance, the existence of God is more probable than not.”
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Attributed to Richard Swinburne:
“The simplicity of theism counts in its evidential favor.”
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Attributed to Richard Swinburne:
“Religious experience is evidence for what it appears to be experience of.”
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Attributed to Richard Swinburne:
“Christian doctrine is to be defended by the same canons of evidence that govern any historical inquiry.”
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Attributed to Richard Swinburne:
“Reason is not the enemy of faith; it is its proper guardian.”
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“I thus understand by a «theodicy» not an account of God’s actual reasons for allowing a bad state to occur, but an account of his possible reasons”
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