From Satan’s Wager to Eve’s Gambit to Our Leap: An Anselmian Reply to the Problem of Divine Hiddenness

Travis Dumsday

doi:10.18290/rf21693-5

Travis Dumsday University of Edmonton, Kanada https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3374-0323

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rf21693-5

Słowa kluczowe: agnostycyzm, aniołowie, Anzelm, ateizm, Biblia, wątpliwość, Bóg, ukrytość, szatan, teizm

Abstrakt

Od zakładu szatana, przez podstęp Ewy, do naszego skoku: anzelmiańska odpowiedź na problem Bożego ukrycia

Chociaż u św. Anzelma nie znajdziemy wyraźnej dyskusji na temat problemu Bożego ukrycia (PBU), tak jak jest on dziś powszechnie rozumiany – mianowicie jako argument za ateizmem – to jest on doskonale świadomy trudności egzystencjalnych, jakie stwarza nasz pozorny brak dostępu do Boga. Co więcej, dostarcza on składników dla interesującego i dotychczas zaniedbanego podejścia do PBU, zakorzenionego w wielu chrześcijańskich narracjach o odstępstwach od stanu łaski, zarówno anielskich, jak i ludzkich. Celem tego artykułu jest wyraźne nakreślenie podejścia Anzelma i dostarczenie przynajmniej szczątkowego jego rozwiązania PBU.

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