Divine Love and the Argument from Divine Hiddenness

This paper criticizes one of the premises of Schellenberg’s atheistic argument from divine hiddenness. This premise, which can be considered as the foundation of his proposed argument, is based on a specific interpretation of divine love as eros. In this paper I first categorize several concepts of...

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Κύριος συγγραφέας: Azadegan, Ebrahim (Συγγραφέας)
Τύπος μέσου: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο
Γλώσσα:Αγγλικά
Έλεγχος διαθεσιμότητας: HBZ Gateway
Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Έκδοση: [2014]
Στο/Στη: European journal for philosophy of religion
Έτος: 2014, Τόμος: 6, Τεύχος: 2, Σελίδες: 101-116
Τυποποιημένες (ακολουθίες) λέξεων-κλειδιών:B Schellenberg, J. L. 1959- / Θεός (μοτίβο) / Απόκρυψη / Αγάπη του Θεού (μοτίβο)
Σημειογραφίες IxTheo:AB Φιλοσοφία της θρησκείας, Κριτική της θρησκείας, Αθεϊσμός
NBC Δόγμα του Θεού
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Σύνοψη:This paper criticizes one of the premises of Schellenberg’s atheistic argument from divine hiddenness. This premise, which can be considered as the foundation of his proposed argument, is based on a specific interpretation of divine love as eros. In this paper I first categorize several concepts of divine love under two main categories, eros and agape; I then answer some main objections to the ascription of eros to God; and in the last part I show that neither on a reading of divine love as agape nor as eros can Schellenberg’s argument be construed as sound. My aim is to show that even if - contra Nygren for example - we accept that divine love can be interpreted as eros, Schellenberg’s argument still doesn’t work.
Περιλαμβάνει:Enthalten in: European journal for philosophy of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.24204/ejpr.v6i2.180