Religious experience and the probability of theism: comments on Swinburne

Religious Studies 53 (3):353-370 (2017)
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I discuss Richard Swinburne’s account of religious experience in his probabilistic case for theism. I argue, pace Swinburne, that even if cosmological considerations render theism not too improbable, religious experience does not render it more probable than not.

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Christoph Jäger
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