Was Jesus God?

The orderliness of the universe and the existence of human beings already provides some reason for believing that there is a God - as argued in Richard Swinburne's earlier book Is There a God ? Swinburne now claims that it is probable that the main Christian doctrines about the nature of God and his actions in the world are true. In virtue of his omnipotence and perfect goodness, God must be a Trinity, live a human life in order to share our suffering, and found a church which would enable him to tell all humans about this. It is also quite probable that he would provide his human life as an atonement for our wrongdoing, teach us how we should live and tell us his plans for our future after death. Among founders of religions, Jesus satisfies uniquely well the requirement of living the sort of human life which God would need to have lived. But to give us adequate reason to believe that Jesus was God, God would need to put his 'signature' on the life of Jesus by an act which he alone could do, for example raise him from the dead. There is adequate historical evidence that Jesus rose from the dead. The church which he founded gave plausible interpretations of his basic message.Therefore Christian doctrines are probably true.

ISBN 0199203113   Pages 192 ISBN13 9780199203116 (What's this?)   Volumes 001 Publisher Oxford University Press   Weight (grammes) 365 Imprint Oxford University Press   Published in Oxford Format Hardback   Height (mm) 223 Publication date 10 Jul 2008   Width (mm) 143 Library of Congress BS2545   Spine width (mm) 15 DEWEY 232   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate DEWEY edition DC22

		Introduction		1
Pt. I		God Loves Us		3
1		God		5
2		God Is Love		28
3		God Shared Our Human Nature		39
4		God Atoned for Our Wrongdoing		53
5		God Teaches Us How to Live		61
6		God Offers Us Heaven		78
Pt. II		God Shows Us That He Loves Us		89
7		The Life and Death of Jesus		91
8		The Resurrection of Jesus		114
9		Provisional Conclusion		128
10		The Church		134
11		The Bible		144
12		Final Conclusion		161
		Index		171

Richard Swinburne, the former Nolloth Professor at Oxford, adriotly marshals the evidences of natural theology to affirm the cogency of the Christian faith... Was Jesus God? is an entertaining, bracing, compelling book and welcome proof that not all of our academics have turned their backs on what Hopkins once called 'the fine delight that fathers thought.' Edward Short, Inside Catholic

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