Reason and Faith Themes from Richard Swinburne

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Natural Theology.................1 Faith ............3 The idea of Faith as trust: Lessons in Noncognitivist approaches to faith.......4 Working with Swinburne: Belief, value, and the religious life..................26 Theistic Arguments...........47 Simplicity and Natural Theology....48 Swinburne`s Aesthetic Appeal.......64 Divine power.....83 Difining omnipotence........84 Law, Cause, and Occasionalism............126 2. Philosophical Theology..........145 Atonement and liturgy..........147 Love and forgiveness: swinburne on Atonement .......148 The liturgical Present tense .....171 Immortality body, and soul.............195 The rev`d Mr. Bayes and the life everlasting ......196 What about hylomorphism? Some medieval and recent ruminations on swinburne`s Dualism ........220