naa a22 4500 510752993 CHVBK 20180411083111.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11841-011-0285-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11841-011-0285-x Divine Hiddenness and Discrimination: A Philosophical Dilemma [Elektronische Daten] [Markus Weidler, Imran Aijaz] Since its first delivery in 1993, J.L. Schellenberg's atheistic argument from divine hiddenness keeps generating lively debate in various quarters in the philosophy of religion. Over time, the author has responded to many criticisms of his argument, both in its original evidentialist version and in its subsequent conceptualist version. One central problem that has gone undetected in these exchanges to date, we argue, is how Schellenberg's explicit-recognition criterion for revelation contains discriminatory tendencies against mentally handicapped persons. Viewed from this angle, our present critique imparts Schellenberg's position with a philosophical dilemma: (1) endorsing divine discrimination to the effect that God does not love ‘cognitive-affective outsiders' or (2) giving up on explicit recognition. Either way, the hiddenness argument does not succeed. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011 Divine hiddenness nationallicence Discrimination nationallicence Dilemma nationallicence J.L. Schellenberg nationallicence Love nationallicence Explicit recognition nationallicence Weidler Markus Department of Mathematics and Philosophy, Columbus State University, 4225 University Avenue, 31907, Columbus, GA, USA aut Aijaz Imran Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan-Dearborn, 4901 Evergreen Road, 48128, Dearborn, MI, USA aut Sophia Springer Netherlands 52/1(2013-04-01), 95-114 0038-1527 52:1<95 2013 52 11841 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-011-0285-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-011-0285-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Weidler Markus Department of Mathematics and Philosophy, Columbus State University, 4225 University Avenue, 31907, Columbus, GA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Aijaz Imran Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan-Dearborn, 4901 Evergreen Road, 48128, Dearborn, MI, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Sophia Springer Netherlands 52/1(2013-04-01), 95-114 0038-1527 52:1<95 2013 52 11841 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer