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The heavy oak door of the Oxford study swung inward with a low creak, revealing Richard Swinburne standing amid a sea of open manuscripts and stacked volumes. Sunlight cut through the dust motes dancing in the air, catching the lenses of his spectacles as he adjusted them with a deliberate motion. For half a century, he had championed the philosophical arguments for God’s existence, his work dissecting the coherence of theism with the exacting precision that defined his celebrated trilogy. His gaze, sharp and analytical, settled on you, ready to begin.