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    [fullTitle] => Belief, Resistance, and Grace: Stump on Divine Hiddenness
    [abstract] => 
Arguments from divine hiddenness attempt to show that God, as understood by traditional Christianity, does not exist.Eleonore Stump has argued that, contrary to a key premise in such arguments, it is possible for God to have a personal relationship with human beings who do not believe that he exists. I describe Stump’s account of the will and describe its connection to her explanation of divine hiddenness. Specifically, I show that her account of the knowledge of persons cannot solve the problem of divine hiddenness. I also argue that Stump’s account of the will commits her to the claim that lacking belief in God’s existence entails resistance to God’s grace.

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            [0] => Array
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                    [givenName] => Katherine E.
                    [affiliation] => Saint Louis University
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            [0] => divine hiddenness
            [1] => knowledge of persons
            [2] => will
            [3] => resistance
            [4] => grace
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    [doi] => 10.24204/ejpr.2021.3227
    [datePublished] => 2022-03-08
    [pdf] => https://www.philosophy-of-religion.eu/menuscript/index.php/ejpr/article/view/3227/version/701/2872
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Belief, Resistance, and Grace: Stump on Divine Hiddenness

Katherine E.
Saint Louis University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.2021.3227

Abstract

Arguments from divine hiddenness attempt to show that God, as understood by traditional Christianity, does not exist.Eleonore Stump has argued that, contrary to a key premise in such arguments, it is possible for God to have a personal relationship with human beings who do not believe that he exists. I describe Stump’s account of the will and describe its connection to her explanation of divine hiddenness. Specifically, I show that her account of the knowledge of persons cannot solve the problem of divine hiddenness. I also argue that Stump’s account of the will commits her to the claim that lacking belief in God’s existence entails resistance to God’s grace.

Keywords: divine hiddenness

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