The Hiddenness Problem and the Problem of Evil

Abstract

The problem of Divine hiddenness, or the hiddenness problem, is more and more commonly being treated as independent of the problem of evil, and as rivalling the latter in significance.Are we in error if we acquiesce in these tendencies?Only a careful investigation into relations between the hiddenness problem and the problem of evil can help us see.Such an investigation is undertaken here.What we will find is that when certain knots threatening to hamper intellectual movement are unravelled, the hiddenness problem emerges as a contender in its own rightone that may generate serious difficulties for theism regardless of conclusions drawn concerning the force of the problem of evil.The past fifteen years have seen considerable discussion of a problem for theism called the problem of Divine hiddenness, or the hiddenness problem.This problem has been developed in a number of different ways, but a central idea is that overlooked facts about the nature of love and about the connection between loving relationship with God and belief in God reveal that the existence in many times and places of a certain sort of nonbelief -I call it nonresistant nonbelief -counts strongly in favor of there being no God.The problem in question is therefore one

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