Epistemic justification richard swinburne biography
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Richard Swinburne (1934- )
1. Background
Education
Richard Swinburne was born in 1934 to parents who were not religious believers.
Epistemic justification richard swinburne biography
He attributes the origins of a lifetime of thinking about what Christians believe to his early years at school. In 1952 he was awarded an open scholarship to study classics at Exeter College, Oxford. After a period of military service, he went to Oxford as an undergraduate in 1954 with the conviction that being a Christian was the most important thing in his life.
Swinburne read for a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, with a concentration in philosophy, completing his degree in 1957.
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He found that Oxford philosophy in the 1950s was not interested in metaphysical systems such as Christian theism. However, Swinburne arrived at the conviction that philosophy provided tools, which could be used to make Christianity intellectually credible, and he came to believe that his vocation was to make a contribution to such an endeavor.
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