Open AccessReflections on the Deep Connection Between Problems of Evil and Problems of Divine Hiddenness
Author(s) -
Trent Dougherty
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
european journal for philosophy of religion
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.25
H-Index - 9
ISSN - 1689-8311
DOI - 10.24204/ejpr.v8i4.1756
Subject(s) - problem of evil , philosophy , connection (principal bundle) , subject (documents) , epistemology , political ponerology , mathematics , computer science , geometry , library science
In the literature on the subject, it is common to understand the problem of divine hiddenness and the problem of evil as distinct problems. Schellenberg (1993, 2010) and van Inwagen (2002) are representative. Such a sharp distinction is not so obvious to me. In this essay, I explore the relationship between the problem(s) of evil and the problem(s) of divine hiddenness.