Divine Hiddenness and Human Reason - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Divine Hiddenness and Human Reason write by J. L. Schellenberg. This book was released on 2006. Divine Hiddenness and Human Reason available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this clearly written and tightly argued book, J. L. Schellenberg addresses a fundamental yet neglected religious problem. If there is a God, he asks, why is his existence not more obvious? Traditionally, theists have claimed that God is hidden in order to account for the fact that the evidence of his existence is as weak as it is. Schellenberg maintains that, given the understanding of God's moral character to which theists are committed, this claim runs into serious difficulty. There are grounds, the author writes, for thinking that the perfectly loving God of theism would not be hidden, that such a God would put the fact of his existence beyond reasonable nonbelief. Since reasonable nonbelief occurs, Schellenberg argues, it follows that there is here an argument of considerable force for atheism. In developing his claim, Schellenberg carefully examines the relevant views of such theists as Pascal, Butler, Kierkegaard, Hick, and others. He clarifies their suggestions concerning Divine hiddenness and shows how they fall short of providing a rebuttal for the argument he presents. That argument, he concludes, poses a serious challenge to theism, to which contemporary theists must seek to respond. The first full-length treatment of its topic, Divine Hiddenness and Human Reason will be of interest to anyone who has sought to reach a conclusion as to God's existence, and especially to theologians and philosophers of religion.
Divine Hiddenness
Divine Hiddenness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Divine Hiddenness write by Daniel Howard-Snyder. This book was released on 2002. Divine Hiddenness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A distinguished group of philosophers of religion explore the question of divine hiddenness.
The Hiddenness Argument
The Hiddenness Argument - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Hiddenness Argument write by J. L. Schellenberg. This book was released on 2015-07-02. The Hiddenness Argument available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In many places and times, and for many people, God's existence has been rather less than a clear fact. According to the hiddenness argument, this is actually a reason to suppose that it is not a fact at all. The hiddenness argument is a new argument for atheism that has come to prominence in philosophy over the past two decades. J. L. Schellenberg first developed the argument in 1993, and this book offers a short and vigorous statement of its central claims and ideas. Logically sharp but so clear that anyone can understand, the book addresses little-discussed issues such as why it took so long for hiddenness reasoning to emerge in philosophy, and how the hiddenness problem is distinct from the problem of evil. It concludes with the fascinating thought that retiring the last of the personal gods might leave us nearer the beginning of religion than the end. Though an atheist, Schellenberg writes sensitively and with a nuanced insider's grasp of the religious life. Pertinent aspects of his experience as a believer and as a nonbeliever, and of his own engagement with hiddenness issues, are included. Set in this personal context, and against an authoritative background on relevant logical, conceptual, and historical matters, The Hiddenness Argument's careful but provocative reasoning makes crystal clear just what this new argument is and why it matters.
The Hiddenness of God
The Hiddenness of God - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Hiddenness of God write by Michael C. Rea. This book was released on 2018-07-19. The Hiddenness of God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Hiddenness of God addresses the problem of divine hiddenness which concerns the ambiguity of evidence for God's existence, the elusiveness of God's comforting presence, the palpable and devastating experience of divine absence and abandonment, and more; phenomena which are hard to reconcile with the idea, central to the Jewish and Christian scriptures, that there exists a God who is deeply and lovingly concerned with the lives of humans. Michael C. Rea argues that divine hiddenness is not a problem to be explained away but rather a consequence of the nature of God himself. He shows that it rests on unwarranted assumptions and expectations about God's love for human beings. Rea explains how scripture and tradition bear testimony not only to God's love, but to God's transcendence. He shows that God's transcendence should be understood as implying that all of God's intrinsic attributes—divine love included—elude our grasp in significant ways.
The Hiddenness Argument
The Hiddenness Argument - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Hiddenness Argument write by J. L. Schellenberg. This book was released on 2015. The Hiddenness Argument available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 1. Some Basic Tools -- 2. A Conceptual Map -- 3. Why So Late to the Show? -- 4. The Main Premise -- 5. Add Insight and Stir -- 6. Nonresistant Nonbelief -- 7. Must a God Be Loving? -- 8. The Challenge -- Coda: After Personal Gods.
