Divine Hiddenness : New Essays

by Daniel Howard-Snyder; Paul Moser

• ISBN13: 9780511057243
• ISBN10: 0511057245
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2001-12-03
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Problem of Divine Hiddenness Posed

What the hiddenness of God reveals: a collaborative discussion

What is the problem of the hiddenness of God?

Thematic Historical Responses

The hiddenness of God: a puzzle or a real problem?

St. John of the Cross and the necessity of divine hiddenness

Jonathan Edwards and the hiddenness of God

A Kierkegaardian view of Divine Hiddenness

Contemporary Responses

Divine hiding and cognitive idolatry

Deus Absconditus

Divine hiddenness: what is the problem?

Seeking but not believing: confessions of a practicing agnostic

The silence of the God who speaks Nicholas Wolterstorff.

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