Revelation Through Concealment: Kabbalistic Responses to God’s Hiddenness: Kabbalistic responses to god's hiddenness

Samuel Lebens

doi:10.24204/ejpr.v12i2.3324

Revelation Through Concealment: Kabbalistic Responses to God’s Hiddenness: Kabbalistic responses to god's hiddenness

Samuel Lebens

Department of Philosophy

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John Schellenberg presents an argument for atheism according to which theism would be easy to believe, if true. Since theism isn’t easy to believe, it must be false. In this paper, I argue that Kabbalistic Judaism has the resources to bypass this argument completely. The paper also explores a stream of Kabbalistic advice that the tradition offers to people of faith for those times at which God appears to us to be hidden.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	89-108
Number of pages	20
Journal	European Journal for Philosophy of Religion
Volume	12
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.v12i2.3324
State	Published - 2020

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39 With thanks to Nehama Verbin for her helpful comments, and to Ariel Meirav and Tyron Goldschmidt for useful discussions. The research for this paper was made possible through the support of a grant from Templeton World Charity Foundation, Inc. The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Templeton World Charity Foundation, Inc.

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© 2020 European Journal for Philosophy of Religion.

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