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On the goods of the religious life: contextualizing the approach of Richard Swinburne

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 August 2017

MARK WYNN
MARK WYNN*
Affiliation:
School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science, University of Leeds, UK
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Abstract

In this article, I seek to extend Richard Swinburne's discussion of the practical reasonableness of the religious way of life, by locating his account of the goods of that life within a larger context. Drawing on Thomas Aquinas's category of infused moral virtue, I sketch an account of the motivational lure of the religious life which supplements Swinburne's emphasis on the fulfilment of moral obligation, by considering the significance of, for example, distinctively theological aesthetic goods.

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Religious Studies , Volume 53 , Special Issue 3: In Honour of Richard Swinburne , September 2017 , pp. 371 - 385
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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