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| Deus Absconditus (Again) | | Date Created: Dec 23, 2003, 10:18 PM |
| It would appear that there are as many "hidden gods" as there are modern theologians. A more charitable observer might say that post-Reformation theologians use diverse concepts of the hiddenness of God to illuminate a bewildering variety of theological problems. Common to most is some interaction with Martin Luther's infamous discussion in De Servo Arbitrio. Everyone, it seems, wants to commandeer Luther's provocative teaching on deus absconditus for their own theological project, whether they agree with or even understand Luther's own subtle exposition or not. The primary purpose of this essay is to discover how Luther himself uses deus absconditus in his De Servo Arbitrio (1525). We will discover that God's hiddenness has a limited function for Luther in this work and that he uses the concept in at least two distinct, but not unrelated ways in response to Erasmus' errors. Read more. |
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