Title Dievo paslėptis – krikščioniškumo dėmuo ir iššūkis filosofijai /
Translation of Title God's hiddenness - the principle of christianity and the challengr for philosophy.
Another Title God’s hiddenness – the principle of christianity and the challenge for philosophy.
Authors Bingelis, Arūnas
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Is Part of Soter : religijos mokslo žurnalas.. Kaunas : Vytauto Didžiojo universiteto leidykla. 2006, nr. 17 (45), p. 7-17.. ISSN 1392-7450
Keywords [eng] Religion ; Philosophy ; God
Abstract [eng] For many people the fact that God (we mean by God as represented in the historic Jewish and Christian theistic traditions) has not made His existence sufficiently evident is first and foremost a source of existential concern. This is so because the hiddenness of God raises difficult existential questions concerning the meaning, value or purpose of our lives. But this sort of questions (i.e. existential) is not a direct subject of this article. The fact of divine hiddenness allegedly poses another sort of questions, too – cognitive problems for theism. In an important recent book, Divine Hiddenness and Human Reason, John L. Schellenberg has presented an argument that the extent to which evidence for the existence of God is not forthcoming, in conjunction with certain other plausible assumptions, entails the truth of atheism. In brief, his atheistic argument is this: (1) An unsurpassably loving God (allegedly existing in hiddenness) would desire personal relationship to obtain between himself and every person capable of it.
Published Kaunas : Vytauto Didžiojo universiteto leidykla
Type Journal article
Language Lithuanian
Publication date 2006