GETTING TO KNOW A GOD YOU DO NOT BELIEVE IN: PANENTHEISM, EXTERNALISM, AND DIVINE HIDDENNESS
Zygon®, Volume 56, Issue 2, Page 352-373, June 2021., 2021 Abstract J. L. Schellenberg's hiddenness argument is one of the key contemporary justifications for atheism and has prompted numerous responses from those defending the plausibility of belief in God. I will outline a recent counterargument from Michael C.
Harvey Cawdron
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Natural Nonbelief in God: Prehistoric Humans, Divine Hiddenness, and Debunking [PDF]
, 2023 The empirical literature seems to indicate that prehistoric humans did not believe in God or anything like God. Why is that so, if God exists? The problem is difficult because their nonbelief was natural: their evolved mind and cultural environment ...
Braddock, Matthew
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Behind the Veil: Mysticism and the Reply to Hiddenness in the Work of Travis Dumsday [PDF]
, 2017 Ever since J. L. Schellenberg formulated his infamous atheistic argument from hiddenness in his 1993 book Divine Hiddenness and Human Reason, the problem of divine hiddenness--the question of why a good God would hide Himself, even from those actively ...
McCrary, Catherine
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The Hiddenness Argument and the Ground of Its Soundness [PDF]
, 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.
Pepliński, Marek
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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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Divine hiddenness, the demographics of theism, and mutual epistemic dependence: a response to Max Baker-Hytch [PDF]
, 2023 In his article ‘Divine Hiddenness and the Demographics of Theism’ Stephen Maitzen (2006) develops a permutation of the argument from divine hiddenness which focuses on the uneven distribution of theistic belief around the globe.
Blanton, Andrew
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Why Cognitive Science of Religion Matters for Christian Theology and Philosophy : An Overview [PDF]
, 2021 Cognitive science of religion (CSR) raises a number of issues that are of interest to theologians and philosophers of religion. The latter have focused primarily on the epistemological implications of CSR, that is, whether science ...
Launonen, Lari
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In Defence of the Epistemological Objection to Divine Command Theory [PDF]
, 2019 Divine command theories come in several different forms but at their core all of these theories claim that certain moral statuses exist in virtue of the fact that God has commanded them to exist. Several authors argue that this core version of the DCT is
Danaher, John
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Divine hiddenness or de jure objections to theism: You cannot have both [PDF]
, 2021 De facto objections to theism purport to show that theism is false, whereas de jure objections to theism claim that, whether or not theism is true, belief in God is irrational.
Hendricks, Perry
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Religious Disagreement and Divine Hiddenness [PDF]
, 2018 In this paper, I develop and respond to a novel objection to conciliatory views of disagreement. Having first explained conciliationism and the problem of divine hiddenness, I develop an objection that conciliationism exacerbates the problem of divine ...
Matheson, Jon
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