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Unbelievable?

Do we have an immaterial soul? Richard Swinburne vs Luke Janssen

Unbelievable?

Premier Unbelievable?

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2019

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Prof Richard Swinburne is one of the most influential Christian philosophers in the world. In his new book ‘Are we Bodies or Souls?’ he sets out his argument for the existence of the soul. Luke Janssen has a background in science and theology. In his new book ‘Soul-Searching: The Evolution of Judeo-Christian Thinking on the Soul and the Afterlife’ he makes the case that our experience of personal identity can be explained through physical brain processes. However, he does not believe this contradicts Christianity. For Richard Swinburne’s ‘Are we Bodies or Souls?’ https://global.oup.com/academic/product/are-we-bodies-or-souls-9780198831495 For Luke Janssen’s ‘Soul-Searching’ https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Searching-Evolution-Judeo-Christian-Thinking-Afterlife/dp/1532679815 For more faith debates and extra resources visit http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable Join the conversation: Facebook and Twitter Get the MP3 Podcast of Unbelievable? Via RSS or Via Itunes, Podbean, Spotify or Stitcher

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0:00.0

A very good afternoon and welcome along to Unbelieveable with me Justin Briley, the

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show that aims to get you thinking every Saturday afternoon here on Premier Christian

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Radio and listen to Around the World as a Podcast, you can find us at our web page

0:19.1

premierChristianradio.com, forward slash unbelievable, and what a week it's been. In British politics,

0:24.9

yes, we are hot on the heels of a historic general election, which the Conservative Party

0:29.7

won a landslide victory, the like of which hasn't really been seen in terms of a majority

0:34.3

since the 1980s. So there's plenty of political commentary going on over the weekend here

0:40.0

on Premier Christian Radio around that. You can have a quite predict politics these days,

0:45.1

can you? And well, we don't often do it on this show, perhaps that's because it is

0:49.2

so unpredictable, but you can always predict debates within during significance here on Unbelieveable.

0:54.7

I hope you enjoy what we've got lined up for you today. The soul is going to be under

0:58.8

debate with Richard Swinburne and Luke Jansson joining me. Had a great response by the way

1:04.5

to last week's episode, episode five of the big conversation between Tom Holland and

1:09.0

AC Grayling, available of course on video at our YouTube channel and at thebigconversation.show.

1:15.0

Do get yourself subscribed there as well for all the updates and bonus content you can receive

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from the show as well. And we'll be hearing some of your responses to that very feisty debate

1:24.6

towards the end of today's show. And we're only what, 10 days away from Christmas as this

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show goes out. So if you want to get hold of the unbelievable Christmas bundle, this would

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be a good time to do it. Two DVDs, this year's and last year's unbelievable conference in

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London, as well as a signed copy of my book, Unbelieveable, Why After 10 Years of Talking

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with Atheists, I'm still a Christian, available to you at a very, very discount price as a special

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Christmas offer. Again, that's premierchristianradio.com forward slash unbelievable. Once you've got

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