Belief, Resistance, and Grace: Stump on Divine Hiddenness
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https://doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.2021.3227Keywords:
divine hiddenness, knowledge of persons, will, resistance, graceAbstract
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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