Unbelievable? Graham Oppy & Guillaume Bignon • Rationality, Religious Experience and the Case for God
The Big Conversation - Episode 4 | Season 4
Why do people convert to belief in God? Is it rational do so?
Graham Oppy is Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean of Research at Monash University, Australia and a well-known atheist thinker and author. He engages with Guillaume Bignon a Christian philosopher from France whose book ‘Confessions of a French Atheist’ tells the story of his adult conversion to Christianity.
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