Divine Hiddenness

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God the Creator and Phenomenology

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

549 kr

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Why is God hidden? How might God be pointed out? In this timely study, Chad Engelland provides an original and compelling account of why God the creator is naturally hidden and how God can be intended. Drawing on phenomenology, philosophy of language, and medieval thought, he explores these questions, arguing that if the God in question is the ultimate source of all things, then hiddenness is necessary. Only a creature, rather than the creator, can appear directly in experience. Nonetheless, God the creator can be named as the ultimate source of all through a deferred ostension, which is a way of establishing the reference to a hidden cause through some manifest effect. Moreover, the deferred ostension can be clarified not only through the phenomenology of absent authors, which is a special case of the problem of other minds, but also via the fulfillment of desire in giving thanks for all.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-06-30
Vikt250 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor350
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009759670

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Chad Engelland is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dallas and author of many books, including Ostension (MIT, 2014), Heidegger's Shadow(Routledge, 2017), Phenomenology (MIT, 2020), and Heidegger on Transcendence (CUP, 2025). He is the editor of Language and Phenomenology(Routledge, 2021). His articles have appeared in such venues as Journal of the American Philosophical Association, the Journal of the History of Philosophy, and Faith and Philosophy.

Introduction: the hidden God; 1. Divine hiddenness and phenomenology; 2. God the creator and the natural theological attitude; 3. Augustine: overheard confession; 4. Anselm: linguistic ostension; 5. Aquinas: interpersonal manifestation; 6. Deferred ostension; 7. Hidden minds; 8. Desire, wonder, and gratitude; Conclusion: 'God the creator' as deferred ostension; Epilogue: inconspicuous incarnation in the Gospel of Mark; Works cited.

'This work provides an original and provocative response to the problem of divine hiddenness. The author argues that divine hiddenness, rather than being an insuperable problem, is a necessary consequence of God's status as the creator of everything finite. Drawing from a wide range of authors, including Kierkegaard, the author attempts to show that this hidden God can nonetheless be known and identified from his works. This is a book that makes an important contribution to natural theology.' Stephen Evans, Emeritus University Professor of Philosophy and Humanities, Baylor University