Hidden Divinity and Religious Belief

Introduction; Part I. The Argument from God's Hiddenness against God's Existence: 1. Divine hiddenness and human philosophy J. L. Schellenberg; Part II. God's Hiddenness: Overlooked Issues: 2. The semantic problem of hiddenness Meghan Sullivan; 3. Divine hiddenness and the cognitive science of religion Helen De Cruz; Part III. God's Hiddenness: Faith and Skepticism: 4. Divine hiddenness and self-sacrifice Paul K. Moser; 5. Journeying in perplexity Evan Fales; Part IV. Reasons for Hiddenness and Unbelief: 6. No-fault atheism John Greco; 7. Divine openness and creaturely non-resistant non-belief Daniel Howard-Snyder; 8. Hiddenness and the epistemology of attachment Adam Green; 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 Jon McGinnis; 10. The hidden God of the Jews: Hegel, Reb Nachman, and the Aqedah Jerome Gellman; 11. The hidden divinity and what it reveals N. N. Trakakis; 12. Hiddenness and transcendence Michael C. Rea; 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 Sarah Coakley; 14. Silence, evil and Shūsaku Endō Yujin Nagasawa; 15. Lyric theodicy: Gerard Manley Hopkins and the problem of existential hiddenness Ian DeWeese-Boyd; Bibliography; Index.