David Braine (philosopher)
David Braine (1940 – 17 February 2017) was a British analytic philosopher with interests in analytic Philosophy of religion and Metaphysics, who sought to marry the techniques and insights of analytical philosophy and Phenomenology to the Metaphysics of classical Thomism. His "The Reality of Time and the Existence of God" set out to prove the existence of God from the fact that the world enjoys continuity in time. He argued that nothing in the world could be the cause of this continuity, whence God came into the picture. His book "The Human Person: Animal and Spirit" attempts to  provide a philosophical analysis of human beings which makes life after death possible. Due to a car accident in 1977, he became paralysed from the chest down. Braine was opposed to the legalisation of euthanasia, and based some of that opposition on his own personal experience of living with a disability. Braine was an important, if insufficiently well-known, contributor to the renaissance of analytical Philosophy of religion. ______________ (1994) University of Notre Dame Press, paperback edition.