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Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
April 2021
Print publication year:
2021
Online ISBN:
9781108612647

Book description

This Element provides an introduction to the hiddenness argument, as presented by John Schellenberg, and its up-to-date discussion in a comprehensible way. It concludes with a brief assessment of where things stand, from the author's point of view, and why divine hiddenness should not reduce a reflective theist's confidence in theism.

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