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Divine hiddenness, the melancholic self, and a pandemic spirituality
Acta Theologica, 2022 The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted societies worldwide and occasioned intense intellectual reflection to make sense of the phenomenon. The state of insecurity has become a new horizon for doing Christian theology, and the new experience makes it ...
R. Venter
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Is God Hidden, Or Does God Simply Not Exist? [PDF]
, 2017 In this chapter: I distinguish the existential problem of divine hiddenness from the evidential problem of divine hiddenness. The former being primarily concerned with the apparent hiddenness of a personal God in the lives of believers amidst terrible ...
Church, Ian M.
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Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2023 Kevin Vanhoozer’s authorial analogy for the God-World relation is a strong explanatory analogy which can aid Christians in thinking deeply, fruitfully, and systematically about the God they worship and His relationship to His creation.
Settecase Parker
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A comparative-philosophical perspective on divine hiddenness in the Hebrew Bible
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2015 This study is concerned with the problem of divine hiddenness as it has taken shape in analytic philosophy of religion over the past two decades. More specifically, the interest lies with providing a comparative-philosophical perspective on the most ...
Jaco Gericke
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A brief exposition on the notions of Human Suffering, Theodicy and Theocracy in the Book of Job [PDF]
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2022 It is suggested that in the face of malevolence, such as that faced by Job, God’s omnipotence and also His benevolence can be upheld. This article thus explores the notions of human suffering, theodicy and theocracy and how they are understood in the ...
Prof. Angelo Nicolaides +1 more
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Did God create fossils? Notes on the history of an idea [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2022 The subject of the paper is prochronism, e.g. the teaching which says that the world was created with the appearance of old age. It is shown that the sources of prochronism could be traced to the medieval doctrine of double truth and philosophy of ...
Alexander Khramov
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The Simplicity of Divine Ideas: Theistic Conceptual Realism and The Doctrine of Divine Simplicity [PDF]
, 2021 There has been little discussion of the compatibility of Theistic Conceptual Realism (TCR) with the doctrine of divine simplicity (DDS). On one hand, if a plurality of universals is necessary to explain the character of particular things, there is ...
Panchuk, Michelle Lynn
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Critique of the Argument of Divine Hiddenness based on Positive and Negative Rules of Existence in the Transcendental Wisdom of Sadra [PDF]
حکمت صدراییIn his divine hiddenness argument, John Schellenberg argues that God's Intentional negligence to provide convincing evidence has put some of his sincere seekers in a state of reasonable nonbelief.
Behrouz Asadi
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Critical Analysis of J.L. Schellenberg’s Views on the Problem of Divine Hiddenness [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2014 In 1993, for the first time, John L. Schellenberg, the contemporary philosopher of religion, proposed the “Hiddenness Argument’’. According to this argument, as God doesn’t provide for many people sufficient evidence for His existence, He is hidden.
سید نصیراحمد حسینی +1 more
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Most Peers Don’t Believe It, Hence It Is Probably False [PDF]
, 2017 Rob Lovering has recently argued that since theists have been unable, by means of philosophical arguments, to convince 85 percent of professional philosophers that God exists, at least one of their defining beliefs must be either false or meaningless ...
van Eyghen, Hans, van Woudenberg, René
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