Richard Granville Swinburne FBA (/ ˈ s w ɪ n b ɜːr n /; born 26 December 1934) is an English philosopher. He is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. Over the last 50 years, Swinburne has been a proponent of philosophical arguments for the existence of God.

I began my academic life at the University of Oxford, with undergraduate (1954-7) and graduate (1957-9) degrees in philosophy and then a diploma in theology (1959-60).

Richard Swinburne (b.1934) is an Oxford professor of philosophy of religion. Swinburne is a Christian apologist - someone who sets out to defend the Christian religion's ideas. He also writes about religious experience and science.

The Existence of God is a 1979 book by British philosopher of religion Richard Swinburne, [1] [2] claiming the existence of the Abrahamic God on rational grounds.

…developed by the English philosopher Richard Swinburne, is that natural evils can be the means of learning and maturing. Natural evils, in other words, can help cultivate virtues such as courage and generosity by forcing humans to confront danger, hardship, and need.

Richard Swinburne was born in 1934 to parents who were not religious believers. He attributes the origins of a lifetime of thinking about what Christians believe to his early years at school. In 1952 he was awarded an open scholarship to study classics at Exeter College, Oxford.

RG Swinburne. Emeritus Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion . See page on personal website. College: Oriel College; Membership: