02421nam a2200181Ia 4500 220922s9999 xx 000 0 und d 9781107435032110743503X eng BL200 .H53 2015 Hidden Divinity and Religious Belief : New Perspectives/ edited by Adam Green, Eleonore Stump New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016 x, 295 p. ; 24 cm. Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Epigraph -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 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. Theism.Hidden God.God Knowableness. Green, Adam Stump, Eleonore 0 0 0 0 GETS GETS GEN 2022-09-21 24.50 0 BL200 .H53 2015 00027588 2022-09-21 00:00:00 2022-09-21 BK 41669 41669