The Resurrection of God Incarnate

Richard Swinburne

OUP Oxford

2003

234 páginas

7h 48m

ISBN-10: 0199257469

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5 (Perfeito)

In my opinion, the book "The Resurrection of God Incarnate" by the former Oxford philosopher Richard Swinburne is the most insightful work in the analytical theology about the resurrection of Jesus so far ever written. Differently of most theological books - which are written solely for the believers - this work of Richard Swinburne is one of those rare books where the author doesn't waste that much time speaking about senseless concepts but are deeply concerned about being direct and objective. Swinburne even formalize his arguments in a Bayes's theorem, pointing out that the probability of Jesus being resurrected is greater than 0.5x given the relevant evidence provided by some hypothetical thoughts such as "what God would do if He in fact existed?" and therefore, the resurrection must be accepted as a rational belief providing the conclusion that Jesus is, in fact, the Son of God. The most likely evidence is given by Jesus itself being sent by God to die for us in order to reconcile us with God the Father but also what God would provide us to find Him in daily life, what kind of situation God would create to show His mercy with us, how Jesus would present Himself and behavior, and so forth.