David Braine

David Braine (born 1940). Contemporary analytic philosopher with interests in analytic Philosophy of religion and Metaphysics, who seeks to marry the techniques and insights of analytical philosophy and Phenomenology to the Metaphysics of classical Thomism. His The Reality of Time and the Existence of God sets out to prove the existence of God from the fact that the world enjoys continuity in time. He argues that nothing in the world could be the cause of this continuity, whence God comes into the picture.

Braine has been an important, if insufficiently well-known, contributor to the renaissance of analytical Philosophy of religion.