Volos Academy for Theological Studies - Dr. Richard Swinburne
Richard Swinburne
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16 June 2015
4 April 2026
Dr. Richard Swinburne, is Emeritus Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion, University of Oxford, Emeritus Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford and Fellow of the British Academy. Over the last 50 years Swinburne has been an influential proponent of philosophical arguments for the existence of God. His philosophical contributions are primarily in the philosophy of religion and philosophy of science. He aroused much discussion with his early work in the philosophy of religion, a trilogy of books consisting of The Coherence of Theism (1977), The Existence of God (1979), and Faith and Reason (1981). Dr. Swinburne formulated five categories into which all religious experiences fall, the public and the private with the related subcategories, while he has also coined two principles for their assessment, namely the principle of credulity and the principle of testimony. He has authored numerous books such as: Epistemic Justification, 2001, The Resurrection of God Incarnate, 2003, Free Will and Modern Science, 2011, Mind, Brain, and Free Will, 2013.
