ABSTRACT
The argument from divine hiddenness was first developed in J. L. Schellenberg's book, Divine Hiddenness and Human Reason and has been much discussed by philosophers of religion in recent years. Schellenberg explains that someone may be regarded as being open to a meaningful and reciprocal relationship if they never do anything which would make such a relationship unavailable to someone who is not resistant to that relationship. That no one who is nonresistant to belief in God can be a nonbeliever, Schellenberg says that, by failing to reveal God's existence, God is doing something which makes it impossible for someone who is nonresistant to belief in God to be a believer. Many defences of theism against the argument from divine hiddenness suggest that there might be good reasons why a perfectly loving God would do something which would lead some creatures to have nonresistant nonbelief.
