The Hiddenness of God

Description

The Hiddenness of God addresses the problem of divine hiddenness which concerns the ambiguity of evidence for God s existence, the elusiveness of God s comforting presence, the palpable and devastating experience of divine absence and abandonment, and more; phenomena which are hard to reconcile with the idea, central to the Jewish and Christian scriptures, that there exists a God who is deeply and lovingly concerned with the lives of humans. Michael C. Rea argues that divine hiddenness is not a problem to be explained away but rather a consequence of the nature of God himself. He shows that it rests on unwarranted assumptions and expectations about God s love for human beings. Rea explains how scripture and tradition bear testimony not only to God s love, but to God s transcendence. He shows that God s transcendence should be understood as implying that all of God s intrinsic attributes--divine love included--elude our grasp in significant ways.