The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Religion

From the very beginning, the accounts of the life of Jesus seem to include miraculous elements. In the four Gospels that are now ...

definition seems to me to be basically correct, in the sense that it captures and expresses what most Christians seem to have me ...

impossible could well be described as a transgression or violation of the order and course of nature. Second, Flew refers to “a ...

A somewhat different question in this area is whether there could be an event that was both a consequence of a law of nature and ...

itself would show it not to be a genuine law of nature. If laws of nature are construed in this way, then it seems that no law o ...

generalizations are, of course, always (or almost always) false. Not all taxpayers do in fact file returns on or before the fift ...

A recent writer on miracles begins his discussion of Hume's essay by saying, “What does Hume mean by `popular religions'? I thin ...

religion. I will say that a miracle that plays this role in a religion is an “effective foundation” of that religion. To be an e ...

them from ignorant and barbarous ancestors” (1777, 119, 120). If these strictures were true, then no contemporary of Hume could ...

using the word there to designate an event that satisfies his definition. But in other places he uses comparative expressions su ...

appearance of a newspaper story of this sort to raise the probability of Henry having been the winner to well above 0.5. And I t ...

million different names that could have appeared in that story. After all, if the reporter was going to make a mistake about who ...

ability assessment? What is the really basic sort of information for such a case? Well, Hume sometimes suggests that probability ...

If Hume had some experience that directly supported a high probability for (N), then he would have had an experience that indire ...

two of them would have been noticed by somebody. But is (W) in fact true? Of course, if (N) is true, then (W) is also true. But ...

The idea of a divine revelation has always been a prominent element in Christianity. There is thought to be some communication f ...

Swinburne, Richard, ed. 1989. Miracles. New York: Macmillan. Tillich, Paul, 1951. Systematic Theology. Vol. I. Chicago: Universi ...

such revelatory messages could be and presumably for some periods have been transmitted orally, the great theistic religions all ...

follower of this movement summarizes what is often termed the “nonpropositional” view of revelation as follows: “What God reveal ...

could hardly be said to know Susan if I did not know many things about her. It is, of course, frequently the case that our knowl ...