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THE ELUSIVE GOD
Three questionsmotivate this book’s account of evidence for the existence of God.
First, if God’s existence is hidden, why suppose that God exists at all? Second,
if God exists, why is God hidden, particularly if God seeks to communicate
with people? Third, what are the implications of divine hiddenness for philos-
ophy, theology, and religion’s supposed knowledge of God? This book answers
these questions on the basis of a new account of evidence and knowledge of
divine reality that challenges skepticism about God’s existence. Its central thesis
is that we should expect evidence of divine reality to be
purposively available
to
humans, that is, available only in a manner suitable to divine purposes in self-
revelation. This lesson generates a seismic shift in our understanding of evidence
and knowledge of divine reality. The result is a needed reorienting of religious
epistemology to accommodate the character and purposes of an authoritative,
perfectly loving God.
Paul K. Moser is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago.
He is author of
Philosophy After Objectivity
(1993) and
Knowledge and Evidence
(Cambridge University Press, 1989). He is co-editor of
The Rationality of Theism
(2003) and
Divine Hiddenness
(Cambridge University Press, 2002). He is editor of
Rationality in Action
(Cambridge University Press, 1990),
The Oxford Handbook
of Epistemology
(2002)
,
the
Oxford Handbooks of Philosophy
book series, and the
journal
American Philosophical Quarterly.
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