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Christianity saved? Comments on Swinburne's apologetic strategies in the tetralogy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 September 2002

J. L. SCHELLENBERG
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3M 2J6

Abstract

This paper begins by surveying some of the problems facing Swinburne's general approach, finding unfortunate the absence from his tetralogy of a strategy (suggested at the end of the previous trilogy) that might have helped to alleviate them, namely an attempt to show that a traditional Christian creed is more probable than the creed of any other religion. It then discusses certain particular arguments of the tetralogy – arguments offered in defence of the traditional Christian doctrine of the Atonement – which are central to the detailed working out of the approach, concluding that they are unacceptable.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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