Swinburne, Richard - Faith and Reason

Faith and Reason is the final volume of a trilogy on philosophical theology. The first volume, The Coherence of Theism, was concerned with what it means to say that there is a God, and whether the claim that there is a God is internally coherent. It argued that the claim was not demonstrably incoherent, that it was proper to look for evidence of its truth, and that evidence that it was true would be evidence that it was coherent. The second volume, The Existence of God, was concerned with evidence that the claim was true. It was concerned to assess the force of arguments from experience for and against the existence of God. It argued that, although it could not be proved conclusively that there was a God, on balance the various arguments taken together showed that it was more probable than not there was a God. Faith and Reason is concerned with the relevance of such judgements of probability (either the particular judgement which I reached, or a different one—e.g. that it is very improbable that there is a God) to religious faith.