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Paradox, Will and Religious Belief

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

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In its central object of attachment—the figure of Christ Incarnate—the Christian religion could be said to embrace what would ordinarily be taken to be an impossible object of belief. That is, the logic of the Incarnation demands close scrutiny: and in response, the question may be begged, given such an analysis of that life, may not any belief which does take this figure to be a central object of faith, be then held to be sui generis, a logically extraordinary form of belief?

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1991

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References

1 Swinburne, R., ‘Could God Become Man?’ Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture Series: 25 published as The Philosophy in Christianity (Cambridge University Press, 1989).Google Scholar

2 See my ‘Kierkegaard: Faith and Self-Deceit’, Theology vol XCII pp. 187190.Google Scholar