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Are Non-Believers Guilty of Their Lack of Faith? Theist Responds to the Theist
Ewa Odoj
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In the article I discuss Richard Mordarski’s defense of theism against the so-called divine hiddenness argument by John L. Schellenberg. I aim to show that theists are not justified in claiming that there are certainly no nonresistant nonbelievers. My argument relies primarily on epistemological analyses, and I pay particular attention to the process of acquiring religious beliefs (and more broadly, worldview beliefs) through the testimony of a witness or authority. Among other things, I argue that if we consider the average Christian to be cognitively reliable, then we cannot exclude the possibility that the modern atheist, living in a secularized Western society, is also cognitively reliable.
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Schellenberg, divine hiddenness, nonresistant nonbelievers, testimony, the epistemology of religionDetails
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