Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction: The Hiddenness of God -- 1. Existential Concern -- 2. Evidence Against God's Existence? -- 3. Summaries and Questions -- Notes -- 1 What Is the Problem of the Hiddenness of God? -- Notes -- 2 What the Hiddenness of God Reveals: A Collaborative Discussion -- I -- II -- III -- 3 Deus Absconditus -- I. Divine Hiddenness and "Morally Significant Freedom" -- II. Schellenberg's Critique of the Soul-Making Response -- Preliminary Considerations -- III. The Soul-Making Response to (2) -- IV. Incentives, Coercion, and "Soul-Making" -- V. An Assessment of Schellenberg's Critique of (16) and (17) -- VI. "Two Final Points" -- VII. Conclusions -- Notes -- 4 St. John of the Cross and the Necessity of Divine Hiddenness -- General Assessment of the Argument From Involuntary Nonbelief -- St. John of the Cross on Faith and Divine Hiddenness -- Notes -- 5 Jonathan Edwards and the Hiddenness of God -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- VII -- VIII -- Notes -- 6 Cognitive Idolatry and Divine Hiding -- 1. Rationality and God -- 2. God, Explanation, and Moral Excellence -- 3. Theism: Thin and Robust -- 4. Idolatry -- 5. Divine Hiding -- Freedom Response -- Proper-Motivation Response -- Divine Purposes Reply -- 6. Evidence, Signs, and Love -- 7. Hiding, Seeking, and Theodicy -- Notes -- 7 Divine Hiddenness: What Is the Problem? -- I. Schellenberg on Divine Hiddenness -- II. Is there an Epistemic Problem of Hiddenness? -- Notes -- 8 A Kierkegaardian View of Divine Hiddenness -- 1. Existence Versus Nature -- 2. Degrees of Hiddenness - The Probabilistic Model -- Mode of Holding a Belief -- Mode of Appropriating Evidence -- 3. Concluding Applications -- Notes -- 9 The Hiddenness of God - A Puzzle or a Real Problem? -- Notes.

10 Seeking but not Believing: Confessions of a Practicing Agnostic -- I. The Ambiguity of the Evidence -- A. Cosmological Evidence -- B. Intelligent Life and Its Evolution -- C. Free Will and the Brain-dependence of Consciousness -- D. Good and Evil -- E. Religious Experience -- F. Weighing the Evidence -- II. The Implications of Ambiguity -- A. Leaps of Faith -- B. The Prior Probability of Theism -- C. The Stability of Agnosticism -- D. Agnostic Practice -- III. Questioning the Ambiguity -- Notes -- 11 The Silence of the God Who Speaks -- 1. Biblical Silence -- 2. Locating the Silence -- 3. Objection: The World has Been Misdescribed -- 4. Objection: The Divine Intent Misdescribed -- 5. Living in the Silence -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.