Revelation Through Concealment: Kabbalistic Responses to God’s Hiddenness
John Schellenberg presents an argument for atheism according to which theism would be easy to believe, if true. Since theism isn’t easy to believe, it must be false. In this paper, I argue that Kabbalistic Judaism has the resources to bypass this argument completely. The paper also explores a stre...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Innsbruck in cooperation with the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham
[2020]
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European journal for philosophy of religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 12, Issue: 2, Pages: 89-108 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Schellenberg, J. L. 1959-, Evolutionary religion
/ Judaism
/ Kaballah
/ Deus absconditus
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism BH Judaism NBC Doctrine of God |
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| Summary: | John Schellenberg presents an argument for atheism according to which theism would be easy to believe, if true. Since theism isn’t easy to believe, it must be false. In this paper, I argue that Kabbalistic Judaism has the resources to bypass this argument completely. The paper also explores a stream of Kabbalistic advice that the tradition offers to people of faith for those times at which God appears to us to be hidden. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: European journal for philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.24204/ejpr.v12i2.3324 |