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divine hiddenness

An Essay on Divine Hiddenness (Guest Post by Joe Hinman)

January 26, 2023 by Randal

This is a guest post courtesy of Joe Hinman, author of God, Science, Ideology (promoted). I wanted to defend my approach to the idea of God’s hiddenness. I see my view working with theodicy is this will look like a presentation of the problem of pain and evil  but the real point is to show the efficacy of […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: divine hiddenness, guest post, Joe Hinman

The Hiddenness of God: Thoughts on the Giunta-Schieber Debate

February 27, 2017 by Randal

The most recent episode of “Unbelievable” features a very fruitful exchange between Justin Schieber and Christian apologist Blake Giunta on the hiddenness of God. Schieber defends the hiddenness argument from J.L. Schellenberg. (See my review of Schellenberg’s recent book here and his reply here. And just for the heck of it see his endorsement of […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, argument from divine hiddenness, atheism, Blake Giunta, divine hiddenness, J.L. Schellenberg, Justin Schieber, problem of evil

On the Use of People to Benefit Other People: A response to Jason Thibodeau

August 13, 2016 by Randal

In my review of John L. Schellenberg’s book The Hiddenness Argument I offered the following scenario as a possible reason why God would choose to defer the initiation of personal relationship with a non-resistant nonbeliever: “It is possible that in the decade during which she is an atheist, Liz will bring many resistant nonbelievers to a greater understanding of absolute […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, divine hiddenness, doubt, Jason Thibodeau, skepticism

On Divine Hiddenness: J.L. Schellenberg Responds to My Review

August 11, 2016 by Randal

A few days ago I posted my review of philosopher John L. Schellenberg’s fine book The Hiddenness Argument: Philosophy’s New Challenge to Belief in God. Professor Schellenberg emailed me a response this morning and he has agreed to have it posted here. So without further ado, here is Professor Schellenberg: * * * I’ve now taken a […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, divine hiddenness, John Schellenberg, philosophy of religion, theism

The Hiddenness Argument Revealed: A Review

August 7, 2016 by Randal

J.L. Schellenberg, The Hiddenness Argument: Philosophy’s New Challenge to Belief in God (Oxford University Press, 2015). The writer of Ecclesiastes famously opined, “There is nothing new under the sun.” It’s a sentiment that might seem at times to characterize the field of philosophy of religion. To be sure, there are new advances, but new arguments for or […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, argument from divine hiddenness, atheism, divine hiddenness, J.L. Schellenberg, philosophy of religion, problem of evil, review, theism

Meaningful relationship and propositional knowledge: A response to Justin Schieber (Part 2)

April 15, 2015 by Randal

Yesterday I had an exchange with Jason Thibodeau in the discussion thread for “Meaningful relationship and propositional knowledge: A response to Justin Schieber (Part 1)“. I’m going to highlight part of that exchange here and then unpack my points further. Jason began by offering an account of what Justin Schieber might have meant by suggesting that the […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, divine hiddenness, Justin Schieber, problem of evil

Meaningful relationship and propositional knowledge: A response to Justin Schieber (Part 1)

April 13, 2015 by Randal

Over the next few weeks I plan to comment on several points in my recent debate with Justin Schieber. So you can consider this the first installment in a series. (I suggest you watch or listen to the debate before partaking of this critical review.) In this installment I am going to comment on the […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, divine hiddenness, Justin Schieber, theism

Then We Shall See Face to Face: Some reasons for divine hiddenness

December 15, 2014 by Randal

In this article I pick up the thread of a conversation with philosopher Jason Thibodeau in response to my podcast “The 59-Second Apologist: The Argument from Divine Hiddenness. First, the background. Jason began by outlining what he called a “reciprocal affection tendency” (henceforth RAT): “Suppose, then, that a significant percentage of humans have reciprocal affection […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, atheism, divine hiddenness, doubt, problem of evil, unbelief

7. The 59-Second Apologist: The Argument from Divine Hiddenness

December 8, 2014 by Randal

The Argument from Divine Hiddenness, first developed by philosopher J.L. Schellenberg, seeks to argue that God doesn’t exist based on the existence of reasonable non-belief. In this episode of the 59-Second Apologist Randal offers a quick summary of the argument along with two replies. Click here to read J.L. Schellenberg’s forthcoming paper “Divine Hiddenness and Human […]

Filed Under: Podcast-59 Second Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, divine hiddenness, J.L. Schellenberg, problem of evil, theodicy

Can there be reasonable nonbelief if God exists?

June 12, 2013 by Randal

In the discussion thread to “Why they don’t believe: Jeffery Jay Lowder“, Bryan asked me to provide my critique of Schellenberg’s argument from God or Godless. I replied first by presenting Schellenberg’s argument as it was quoted by John Loftus: (1) If there is a God, he is perfectly loving. (2) If a perfectly loving God […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, divine hiddenness, God, J.L. Schellenberg, problem of evil, theodicy

33,000 denominations. And the problem is…?

May 18, 2013 by Randal

So there are 33,000 Christian denominations. Or 42,000. Or 51,000. What’s the problem? Let’s preface the discussion at the outset with the rather glaring observation that over a billion Christians are Catholic. And the rest can, for the most part, be subdivided into rather large groups: several hundred million orthodox, a hundred million Anglicans, Lutherans, […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: church, denominations, divine hiddenness, ecclesiology, ecumenism, problem of evil

God, why are you hiding? A Reflection

December 13, 2012 by Randal

Thinking about God is not a waste of time. Or so I’ve argued. Admittedly it’s hardly a surprising thesis coming from the mouth of a theologian. But the reasons for its importance go far beyond my own need to protect my profession and paycheck. If God is there, he’s the most important reality there is. […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: divine hiddenness, problem of evil, providence, skepticism, subconcious, theism, theodicy

Does God limit evidence to protect human freedom?

July 27, 2012 by Randal

Seventeenth century apologist Blaise Pascal famously claimed that the degree of evidence for Christian faith is set at the optimal level to secure the role of divine electing grace: “there is enough evidence to condemn and not enough to convince, so that it should be apparent that those who follow it are prompted to do […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Blaise pascal, divine hiddenness, epistemology, Gerald O'Collins

Freddie Mercury and other lonely (and not so lonely) lost souls

April 8, 2011 by Randal

Today I was listening to “Somebody to Love” by Queen on youtube when I noticed the following in the comments: God, I have an idea. You give us Freddie and Michael Jackson back, we’ll give you Justin Bieber. Heh heh. Although I must confess I’m not so sure about Michael Jackson. (And as for all […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Augustine, divine hiddenness, Freddie Mercury, God

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