The hidden divinity and what it reveals

Trakakis, Nick

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“…Generally, I think Trakakis is right, and onto something important that I do not have the space to cover here, but a very different approach than the Christological approach I am taking here. See Trakakis (2016). wills to be found."…”

Section: (B) the Church Is Limited By Its Imperfectionmentioning

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Seeing the Face of Christ

King

2020

TheoLogica

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The problem of the hiddenness of God has at least two kinds: an experiential and an intellectual problem. Despite differences, a solution to either would require some account of how God is personally known. Yet for the Christian tradition, God is known in the man Jesus Christ. I suggest, then, a Christological reformulation of the hiddenness argument, and proceed to offer an account of how Christ is known. With special attention to the ecclesiology of Gregory of Nyssa, I offer an account of knowing Christ in the church. I then explore this as a response to the problems of divine hiddenness, and anticipate a considerable objection to my response.

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Section: (B) the Church Is Limited By Its Imperfectionmentioning

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Seeing the Face of Christ

King

2020

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“…The best we can do is to yearn for God, knowing well that our “yearning can never find realization” (180). Nick Trakakis () writes similarly, drawing on the theological views of Eastern forms of Christianity to give expression to the idea of “the ineffability and incomprehensibility of God” (195), contrasting this understanding with the “anthropomorphic tendencies of perfect being theology” (194) that he finds in standard philosophical work on hiddenness.…”

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Divine hiddenness: Part 2 (recent enlargements of the discussion)

Schellenberg

2017

Philosophy Compass

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Offered here is Part 2 of a two-part critical survey of recent work in philosophy on divine hiddenness. Part 1 surveyed recent development of the discussion initiated by my 1993 book on the subject. Here, I examine some related work that expands the scope of the hiddenness discussion. Some of the enlargements take further the discussion of Stephen Maitzen's work on the demographics of theism. Others introduce new hiddenness problems and ways of dealing with them. A third category of new work urges theological constraints, of one sort or another, on hiddenness reasoning, thus raising new methodological issues. | INTRODUCTIONThis is the second of two articles critically surveying recent work on divine hiddenness in philosophy. More than 60 papers and books dealing with hiddenness themes have appeared in the past six years, since an earlier survey article of mine was published (Schellenberg, 2010). Realizing that I could not address all of these and wishing to enable a reasonable treatment of those I did include, I decided to break my survey into two parts. Part 1 (Schellenberg, 2017) looked at recent philosophical work on the hiddenness argument for atheism descended from my book Divine Hiddenness and Human Reason (Schellenberg, 1993). Now, in Part 2, I consider recent work not easily seen as belonging to that stream of discussion but related to it by family resemblance-work on arguments about hiddenness other than my argument, some of them quite new, and work that, though sometimes applied to my argument, more decidedly than any that came before seeks insight on a range of hiddenness issues from theology, raising a number of methodological issues as it does so. | NEW WORK ON THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF THEISMTen years ago, Stephen Maitzen expanded the number of hiddenness issues to be considered by arguing that the highly uneven or lopsided distribution of theistic belief in the world is much more likely on naturalism than on theism (Maitzen, 2006). This problem he called a problem about the "demographics" of theism. A recent reply to Maitzen comes from T. J. Mawson (2012). Maitzen had argued that responses appealing to free will are inapplicable to the demographics problem. But Mawson observes that neglected in Maitzen's discussion of free will is the fact that, through the exercise of free will, people can affect how much and where belief in God spreads, with an uneven

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Weidner¹

2019

Handbuch Analytische Religionsphilosophie

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