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Hidden divinity and religious belief : new perspectives / edited by Adam Green, Eleonore Stump.

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 atheis...

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Other Authors: Green, Adam (Editor), Stump, Eleonore, 1947- (Editor)
Other title:Hidden Divinity & Religious Belief
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Theism.
Hidden God.
God > Knowableness.
Knowledge, Theory of (Religion)
Philosophy and religion.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I The Argument from God's Hiddenness against God's Existence
  • 1 Divine hiddenness and human philosophy
  • 1 General background to the arguments
  • 2 Ultimate hiddenness
  • 3 Personal love and openness to relationship
  • 4 The hiddenness argument
  • 5 Belief or acceptance?
  • Part II God's Hiddenness: Overlooked Issues
  • 2 The semantic problem of hiddenness
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Ways we might fix reference to God
  • 3 Ways reference can be destroyed
  • 4 Hiddenness and semantic vulnerability
  • 5 Reference and inspiration
  • 6 Conclusion
  • 3 Divine hiddenness and the cognitive science of religion
  • 1 Divine hiddenness and natural belief in God
  • 2 The cognitive origins of theism
  • 3 Nonresistant nonbelief and the cognitive origins of atheism
  • 4 The epistemic distance reply
  • 5 CSR and spiritual attachment
  • 6 Spiritual dryness as insecure attachment
  • 7 Mediate religious experience
  • 8 Concluding remarks
  • Part III God's Hiddenness: Faith and Skepticism
  • 4 Divine hiddenness and self-sacrifice
  • 1 An imagined scenario
  • 2 Two sides of sacrifice: divine and human
  • 3 Self-sacrifice in evidence for God
  • 4 Sacrificial discernment and decision
  • 5 Whither hiddenness?
  • 6 Conclusion
  • 5 Journeying in perplexity
  • A Cognitive idolatry or epistemic necessity?
  • B The real deal
  • C Stump's Job
  • D Another Job
  • E God speaks
  • Job sees
  • F Denouement?
  • G Eschaton
  • Part IV Reasons for Hiddenness and Unbelief
  • 6 No-fault atheism
  • Part 1: The problem of divine hiddenness and the problem of suffering
  • 1 The argument from hiddenness
  • 2 The flawed atheist response
  • 3 No-fault atheism
  • 4 Interim conclusion
  • Part 2: A model for testimonial knowledge.
  • 1 A problem in the epistemology of testimony
  • 2 The "information economy" model
  • 3 Three modes of testimonial exchange: interpersonal, social, and institutional
  • Part 3: Implications for epistemology in general, problem of divine hiddenness in particular
  • 1 Social location is epistemically important
  • 2 Moral and practical aspects of the social environment have epistemic consequences
  • 3 Obstacles to transmission might be found in a) the hearer, but also b) the speaker, and c) the social environment
  • Conclusions
  • 7 Divine openness and creaturely nonresistant nonbelief
  • The argument from nonresistant nonbelief
  • 8 Hiddenness and the epistemology of attachment
  • I Divine hiddenness as an experiential problem
  • II Shared attention and religious experience
  • III A story about attachment
  • IV The case of the atheist
  • V Objections and disclaimers
  • 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
  • Introduction
  • Preliminaries: the vocabulary of love in medieval Arabic
  • Divine love within the falsafa tradition
  • Understanding "personal relation" in medieval Islam: persons
  • Understanding "personal relation" in medieval Islam: relations
  • 10 The hidden God of the Jews: Hegel, Reb Nachman, and the aqedah
  • Reb Nachman of Breslov
  • Reb Nachman and the aqedah
  • 11 The hidden divinity and what it reveals
  • 1 From West to East
  • 2 Implications for the problem of divine hiddenness
  • 12 Hiddenness and transcendence
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  • 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
  • Introduction: what is the problem of "divine hiddenness"?
  • I Hiddenness, darkness, and epistemic asceticism: the entry into "contemplation"
  • II "Darkness" in the night of sense and the night of spirit
  • Conclusions: "rightly and discreetly and lovingly"
  • 14 Silence, evil, and Shusaku Endo
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Persecution of Kakure Kirishitans
  • 3 The problem of divine absence
  • 4 The intellectual problem and the experiential problem
  • 5 Responding to the experiential problem
  • 6 Conclusion
  • 15 Lyric theodicy: Gerard Manley Hopkins and the problem of existential hiddenness
  • I Locating Hopkins's problem
  • II Lyric, lamentation, and the problem of existential suffering
  • Lyric of intimate knowledge: weep with them that weep
  • Lyric of lamentation: blessed are they that mourn
  • III The incarnate Word: touching God in the darkness, touching God in suffering
  • References
  • Index.

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