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Apr 2023
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#29 Richard Swinburne - Souls, Free Will...

Alex J O'Connor
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Richard Swinburne is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and author of a number of books on the philosophy of religion, the soul, and Christianity, amongst other subjects.

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