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Hidden divinity and religious belief : new perspectives /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.