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Response to my commentators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 September 2002

RICHARD SWINBURNE
RICHARD SWINBURNE
Affiliation:
Oriel College, University of Oxford, OX1 4EW
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Abstract

This is my response to the critical commentaries by Hasker, McNaughton and Schellenberg on my tetralogy on Christian doctrine. I dispute the moral principles invoked by McNaughton and Schellenberg in criticism of my theodicy and theory of atonement. I claim, contrary to Hasker, that I have taken proper account of the ‘existential dimension' of Christianity. I agree that whether it is rational to pursue the Christian way depends not only on how probable it is that the Christian creed is true and so that the way leads to the Christian goals, but (in part) on how strongly one wants those goals. Hasker is correct to say that I need to give arguments in favour of the historical claims of Christianity, and I outline how I hope to do that.

Type
Research Article
Information
Religious Studies , Volume 38 , Issue 3 , September 2002 , pp. 301 - 315
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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