Critical Analysis of Schellenberg's Divine Hiddenness Argument from Michael Murray's Perspective

Haji Mohammad Hosein Tehrani, Hamideh; Alizamani, Amirabbas

doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.22034/rs.2021.31860.1391

Critical Analysis of Schellenberg's Divine Hiddenness Argument from Michael Murray's Perspective

Document Type : Promotional article

Authors

hamideh Haji mohammad Hosein Tehrani ¹

Amirabbas Alizamani ²

¹ tehran university, theology faculty, philosophy of religion, tehran, iran

² Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy of Religion, University of Tehran

http://dx.doi.org/10.22034/rs.2021.31860.1391

Abstract

After Schellenberg proposed the argument of divine hiddenness, many theologians and thinkers have criticized this argument in different ways. In his argument, focusing on the attributes of the God of monotheistic religions, especially the attribute of love, introduces the concealment of God an evidence to atheism and believes that the God of love never allows his servants to be blamed with inculpable non-belief. Using the free will theodicy that justifies moral evil, Michael Murray, along with the Augustine theology of divine punishment, proposes a theodicy called “coercion” and critiques the argument from divine hiddenness. He claims morally significant free will cannot exercise by individual to be a believer under impulsion of God revelation.

Keywords

Divine Hiddenness

schellenberg

Coercion theodicy

Michael Murray

Free will theodicy

Divine punishment

Soul making of Murray

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