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Divine openness and creaturely nonresistant nonbelief [PDF]
, 2016 We might be tempted to think that, necessarily, if God unsurpassably loves such created persons as there may be, then for any capable created person S and time t, God is at t open to being in a positively meaningful and reciprocal conscious relationship ...
Howard-Snyder, Daniel
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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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Philosophy of Love and the Hiddenness Argument
Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2023 J.L. Schellenberg and likeminded philosophers have offered a compelling argument against the existence of God known as the hiddenness argument. The idea that a loving God would not permit nonresistant nonbelief seems intuitive at first. Many theists have
Price Randall J.
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Divine Hiddenness and Affective Forecasting [PDF]
, 2023 In this paper I argue that J. L. Schellenberg’s Divine Hiddenness Argument is committed to a problematic implication that is weakened by research in cognitive psychology on affective forecasting.
Andrews, Miles
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The Hidden Love of God and the Imaging Defense [PDF]
, 2020 J. L. Schellenberg has recently argued that there is a logical incompatibility between God’s being perfectly loving and there being non-resistant nonbelievers in the proposition that God exists.
Yadav, Sameer
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The Epistemology of Modest Atheism [PDF]
, 2015 Distinguishing between the old atheism, the new atheism, and modest atheism, and also between belief and acceptance, and belief and acceptance tokens and types, I defend the disjunctive view that either modest atheistic belief or modest atheistic ...
Schellenberg, John L.
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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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Integrated physicality and the absence of God:Spiritual technologies in theological context [PDF]
, 2021 Why do some people effortlessly experience God and others do not, no matter how much they may desire to? In the Christian tradition, there are different answers to this question.
Ritchie, Sarah Lane
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Re-evaluating the hiddenness argument from above [PDF]
, 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.
Vandergriff, Kevin
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Non-Identity Reasoning and the Hiddenness Argument
TheoLogicaIf a theory of identity compatible with non-identity reasoning is accepted, J. L. Schellenberg’s hiddenness argument ought to be rejected. The core of non-identity reasoning is that particular persons can only come into existence under certain ...
Grant Broadhurst
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