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Re-evaluating the hiddenness argument from above [PDF]

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2018
J. L. Schellenberg’s hiddenness argument for atheism (2015) assumes that God’s perpetual openness to a relationship with any finite person is consistent with their perpetual flourishing. However, I argue that if Aquinas-Stump’s account of the nature of love is true, then any finite person flourishes the most only if they attain the greatest degree of ...
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The Problem of God’s Existence: In Defence of Skepticism [PDF]

, 2015
There are four main positions in the argument about whether God exists: atheism, theism, agnosticism, and scepticism. From an epistemological standpoint, scepticism is the most rational; even if a decisive argument which would settle the debate has not ...
Ziemiński, Ireneusz
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Moral Dilemmas, the Tragic and God’s Hiddenness. Notes on Shusaku Endo’s Silence [PDF]

, 2018
The essay discusses the religious and ethical message of Shusaku Endo’s Silence. Briefly focusing first on the plot of the novel, the article proceeds to discuss the moral dilemma that is the core of the novel and asks whether the dilemma is symmetrical ...
Głąb, Anna
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The Hiddenness Argument and the Ground of Its Soundness

Roczniki Filozoficzne, 2021
The paper refers to the argument from hiddenness as presented in John Schellenberg’s book The Hiddenness Argument and the philosophical views expressed there, making this argument understandable. It is argued that conditionals (1) and (2) are not adequately grounded. Schellenberg has not shown that we have the knowledge necessary to accept the premises
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Wagering Against Divine Hiddenness [PDF]

, 2016
J.L. Schellenberg argues that divine hiddenness provides an argument for the conclusion that God does not exist, for if God existed he would not allow non-resistant non-belief to occur, but non-resistant non-belief does occur, so God does not exist.
Jackson, Elizabeth
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Topological Connectedness and Behavioral Assumptions on Preferences: A Two-Way Relationship

, 2018
This paper offers a comprehensive treatment of the question as to whether a binary relation can be consistent (transitive) without being decisive (complete), or decisive without being consistent, or simultaneously inconsistent or indecisive, in the ...
Khan, M. Ali, Uyanık, Metin
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To Make a Rainbow - God’s Work in Nature [PDF]

, 2015
The Torah lays out a rich idea of God’s governance in the Scroll of Esther: Circumstance lays the warp, but human choices weave the woof of destiny. God remains unseen.
Goodman, Lenn E.
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Emotional Doubt and Divine Hiddenness [PDF]

, 2014
This essay will seek to develop a possible model for addressing the existential problem of divine hiddenness and the emotional doubt that it might cause in the life of a believer.
Thornhill, A. Chadwick
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Heidegger's early phenomenology [PDF]

, 2018
This paper attempts to shed some light on Heidegger’s early conception of phenomenology in light of its conscious departure from Husserl’s conception of phenomenology. The period in question extends from Heidegger’s first Freiburg lectures in 1919 to his
Dahlstrom, Daniel
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The Argument from Divine Hiddenness and Christian Love

Roczniki Filozoficzne, 2021
In the paper it is argued that the conceptual resources of Christianity topple the hiddenness argument. According to the author, the variability of the divine love cast doubt on the soundness of Schellenberg’s reasoning. If we understood a perfect love as a maximal and equal concern and identification with all and for all, then a divine love would ...
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