On sin-based responses to divine hiddenness

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7166320
AutoresMax Baker‐hytch (0000-0002-5106-7219, Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford, autor de correspondencia)
Año2025
Volumen61
Número3
Páginas650-664
Fecha de publicación2025-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaReligious Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0034-4125 • E-ISSN: 1469-901X
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s003441252300094x
OpenAlexW4388830283
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas28

While sin-based responses to divine hiddenness arguments are a road less travelled, they do nonetheless have a number of defenders in the contemporary divine hiddenness literature. I begin this article by exploring the various strategies that have been employed to attempt to motivate such accounts. What none of these strategies seem to take into account, however, is a cluster of facts about the correlation (or lack thereof) between a person's propositional attitudes about God and the degree to which that person displays the relevant moral and intellectual virtues. This article aims to fill this lacuna by mapping out the options available to defenders of sin-based responses in trying to cope with this cluster of facts. I argue that there may be resources available for preserving some aspects of the sin-based approach, but that taking stock of the aforementioned facts will ultimately require the positing of causal factors besides sin in order to generate a sufficient explanation of the phenomenon of non-belief

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