Volume 87, Issue 3, Summer 2013
Travis Dumsday
Pages 365-377
DOI: 10.5840/acpq201387328
A Thomistic Response to the Problem of Divine Hiddenness
The problem of divine hiddenness has in the recent literature joined the problem of evil as one of the principal positive arguments for atheism. My chief goal here is to mine Aquinas’s metaphysics and natural theology for a distinctively Thomistic response, making particular use of a neglected text in which he considers a similar issue. Towards the end of the paper I also consider some resources provided by Aquinas’s interpretation of revealed theology.