Divine Hiddenness: New Essays

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Daniel Howard-Snyder, Paul Moser
Cambridge University Press, 2002 - 242 páginas
For many people the existence of God is by no means a sufficiently clear feature of reality. This problem, the fact of divine hiddenness, has been a source of existential concern and has sometimes been taken as a rationale for support of atheism or agnosticism. In this new collection of essays, a distinguished group of philosophers of religion explore the question of divine hiddenness in considerable detail. The issue is approached from several perspectives including Jewish, Christian, atheist and agnostic. There is coverage of the historical treatment of divine hiddenness as found in the work of Maimonides, St. John of the Cross, Jonathan Edwards, Kierkegaard, and various Biblical writers. A substantial introduction clarifies the main problems of and leading solutions to divine hiddenness. Primarily directed at philosophers of religion, theologians, and scholars of religious studies, this collection could also serve as a textbook for upper-level courses in philosophy of religion.

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The Hiddenness of God
1
What Is the Problem of the Hiddenness of God?
24
What the Hiddenness of God Reveals A Collaborative Discussion
33
Deus Absconditus
62
St John of the Cross and the Necessity of Divine Hiddenness
83
Jonathan Edwards and the Hiddenness of God
98
Cognitive Idolatry and Divine Hiding
120
Divine Hiddenness What Is the Problem?
149
A Kierkegaardian View of Divine Hiddenness
164
The Hiddenness of God A Puzzle or a Real Problem?
181
Seeking But Not Believing Confessions of a Practicing Agnostic
197
The Silence of the God Who Speaks
215
Bibliography
229
Index of Names
235
Index of Subjects
238
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Paul K. Moser is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. He is the author of The Elusive God (Cambridge, 2008) and The Evidence for God (Cambridge, 2010), editor of Jesus and Philosophy (Cambridge, 2008), and co-editor of Divine Hiddenness (Cambridge, 2002) and of The Rationality of Theism (2003). He is also editor of the journal American Philosophical Quarterly.

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