Hidden Divinity and Religious Belief: New Perspectives
Cambridge University Press, 2/5/2016
EAN 9781107078130, ISBN10: 110707813X
Hardcover, 306 pages, 23.6 x 16 x 2.3 cm
Language: English
This collection of new essays written by an international team of scholars is a groundbreaking examination of the problem of divine hiddenness, one of the most dynamic areas in current philosophy of religion. Together, the essays constitute a wide-ranging dialogue on the problem. They balance atheistic and theistic standpoints, and they bring to bear not only on the standard philosophical perspectives but also on insights from Jewish, Muslim, and Eastern Orthodox traditions. The apophatic and the mystical are well-represented too. As a result, the volume throws fresh light on this familiar but important topic in the philosophy of religion. In the process, the volume incorporates contemporary work in epistemology, philosophy of mind and philosophy of language. For all these reasons, this book will be of great interest to researchers and advanced students in philosophy of religion and theology.
Introduction
Part I. The Argument from God's Hiddenness against God's Existence
1. Divine hiddenness and human philosophy J. L. Schellenberg
Part II. God's Hiddenness
Overlooked Issues
2. The semantic problem of hiddenness Meghan Sullivan
3. Divine hiddenness and the cognitive science of religion Helen De Cruz
Part III. God's Hiddenness
Faith and Skepticism
4. Divine hiddenness and self-sacrifice Paul K. Moser
5. Journeying in perplexity Evan Fales
Part IV. Reasons for Hiddenness and Unbelief
6. No-fault atheism John Greco
7. Divine openness and creaturely non-resistant non-belief Daniel Howard-Snyder
8. Hiddenness and the epistemology of attachment Adam Green
Part V. God's Hiddenness and God's Nature in the Major Monotheisms
9. The hiddenness of 'divine hiddenness'
divine love in medieval Islamic lands Jon McGinnis
10. The hidden God of the Jews
Hegel, Reb Nachman, and the Aqedah Jerome Gellman
11. The hidden divinity and what it reveals N. N. Trakakis
12. Hiddenness and transcendence Michael C. Rea
Part VI. God's Hiddenness
Suffering and Union with God
13. Divine hiddenness or dark intimacy?
How John of the Cross dissolves a contemporary philosophical dilemma Sarah Coakley
14. Silence, evil and Shūsaku EndŠYujin Nagasawa
15. Lyric theodicy
Gerard Manley Hopkins and the problem of existential hiddenness Ian DeWeese-Boyd
Bibliography
Index.