Title: Revelation : from metaphor to analogy /
Authors: Swinburne, Richard.
Publisher: Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
Year: 1992
Subjects: Revelation.; Metaphor Religious aspects; Analogy (Religion); Revelation Christianity; Metaphor Religious aspects Christianity
Abstract: "This is a fuller and entirely rewritten second edition of Revelation, the most notable new feature of which is a long chapter examining whether traditional Christian claims about personal morality (divorce, homosexuality, abortion etc.) can be regarded as revealed truths. A formal appendix shows how the structure of evidence supporting the Christian revelation can be articulated in terms of the probability calculus (and shows that Plantinga's well known argument from 'dwindling probabilities' against probabilistic arguments of this kind is not cogent)."--Jacket.
Contents: Meaning. Terminology ; Presupposition ; Analogy and metaphor ; Genre -- Evidence of a revelation. The need for revelation ; The tests of content and miracle -- The Christian revelation. The original revelation ; Church ; Creeds ; Bible ; Conclusion.