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Deus absconditus
(Lat., ‘hidden God’). The apparent absence of God from those who seek him, or from circumstances where the godly are in extreme trouble.
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
... absconditus (Lat., ‘hidden God’). The apparent absence of God from those who seek him, or from circumstances where the godly are in extreme...
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The Oxford Companion to World Mythology
... Absconditus and Otiosus In many religious traditions the creator god essentially retires from the world he has created, becoming a deus otiosus and he leaves the world to others to run—to humans or lesser gods. In short, he does not interfere with the world once he has created it. His mythological relative is the deus absconditus who more actively absents himself from his creation. The absent god is especially prevalent in African mythology . The Bushman creator, Mantis , in the old days lived here with humans. But human foolishness upset him so...
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The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English
... absconditus noun phrase M20 Latin (= hidden god). Theology A divine being that is inaccessible to human perception. Cf. Isaiah 45:15 “Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel...
Deus absconditus
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James L. Crenshaw and James L. Crenshaw
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...Or is it? Those who have read the poetic debate can no longer be content with such a simple answer to life's deepest enigma. Divine mystery remains, along with a human inability to comprehend the suffering of innocents. Job has succeeded, however, in that the Deus absconditus has become the Deus revelatus (the hidden God has become manifest). References Albertz, R. (1981), ‘Der sozialgeschichtliche Hintergrund des Hiobbuches und der “Babylonischen Theodizee”’, in J. Jeremias and L. Perlitt (eds.), Die Botschaft und die Boten: Festschrift für H. W....
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Dale C. Allison, Jr. and Dale C. Allison, Jr.
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...of God, which is so overdone that the Son himself screams out feelings of abandonment, powerfully conveys the frightening mystery of God's seeming inactivity in the world. vv. 32–50 are the divine absence, a sort of deistic interlude, a portrait (in Luther's phrase) of Deus absconditus in passionibus . They are akin to portions of Job, and like the speech out of the whirlwind they can evoke what Rudolf Otto called the mysterium tremendum . ‘Truly, you are a God who hides himself, O God of Israel, the Saviour’ ( Isa 45:15 ). While vv. 32–50 are seemingly...
Anne Ridler
Holocaust, Shoʾah Reference library
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
...Berkowits, the Jews have accepted the vocation of exile, in order to bear the pain of freedom on behalf of a world which abuses it, thereby becoming themselves a moral vocation to the world to turn and repent. God is, but is beyond our understanding, as in the Ein-Sof and Deus absconditus traditions. 4 The presence of God in the Holocaust was affirmed also by E. Fackenheim (e.g. God's Presence in History , 1970 ) distinguishing between the two formative moments of Israel's origin, the Re(e)d Sea and Sinai, the saving presence and the commanding...
Thomas, R. S. (Ronald Stuart) (1913–2000) Reference library
John Mole
The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry (2 ed.)
...disposer of the issues | of life’, exploring interior worlds of private doubt in the search for consolation. As in the earlier work, he remains waiting ‘somewhere between faith and doubt | for the echoes of arrival’, while often, even in the same poem, pursuing a protean deus absconditus . There was much debate at the time about this development. Some saw him as having abandoned the rocky acres for a nebulous cosmos, and a firm footing in metaphor for an inconclusive and often prosaic space-walking. Others regarded his later work as his finest, as an...
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
...and literary icon. Formative Tensions R. S. Thomas was born in Cardiff and raised in the port of Holyhead, Anglesey. His poetry constructs an idealized image of his often absent father, an officer in the merchant navy, and critics have sensed that Thomas's search for the deus absconditus (“the absent god”) in the later metaphysical poetry has deep emotional, psychological, and spiritual roots. A far more negative image emerges of his overprotective mother, primarily since Thomas seems to have held her responsible for an anglicized upbringing that denied him...
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Mark A. Matson
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Theology
...Certainly, there are problems here; the use of the term “history” may itself be problematic. Nevertheless, central to the biblical “story” are the acts of God on behalf of his people. As Hengel ( 2003 ) notes, God’s actions in history are not obvious at the time: God is a deus absconditus . These “mighty acts” are not of the sort that can be historically objectified; rather, they are recognized as God’s doing, viewed through the eyes of faith. But they are central to the Bible’s theology. In some ways a salvation-history model may still inform biblical...
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation
...for our sins. Luther did not interpret this satisfaction legalistically as does Anselm of Canterbury. Luther's Christology, with its emphasis on the incarnation, also shaped his line of argument against Erasmus in 1525 and the distinction he made between Deus absconditus (“God as hidden”) and Deus revelatus (“God as revealed”). With this distinction, Luther made clear that the hidden God has made himself so definitively manifest in the revealed God that everything that must be known for the sake of salvation is revealed in him. Even if God's majesty is...
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation
...the sinful state of humanity, as is always the purpose of the law. Luther related God's will to grace to his omnipotence and foreknowledge, rejecting the distinction between conditioned and unconditioned necessity, while introducing that of God concealed ( Deus absconditus ) and God revealed ( Deus revelatus ), a distinction, that he took almost to the point of splitting the idea of God's unity. Free will is solely an attribute of God, whereas human will is like a pack horse that goes wherever its rider, God or Satan, directs it. This slavery of the will...
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Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
...iconoclasm, and an aesthetics of difficulty brings out the effectiveness of works of art that practice concealment, not disclosure. The unrepresentability of God in the Old Testament, for example, and the direct link between faith and unrepresentability (God is a deus absconditus , a hidden god) suggest that it is precisely that which has been denied representation (God's image) that will be incorruptible, never appropriated, and therefore endure the longest. In other words, the desire not to represent, the effort to make revelation a difficult...
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Richard Price
The Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine
...do not hope.’ Here, through an intense devotion to Christ's passion that derived from late medieval piety, an awareness of divine transcendence, so vivid in Aug., has developed into an awareness of the hidden God ( Deus absconditus ) revealed on the cross to those alone who in their turn take the cross. Equally revealing is the commentary on the Letter to the Romans penned by John Calvin . On the subject of Paul's unstinted love for the Jews ...
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Marina van Zuylen
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (2 ed.)
...iconoclasm, and an aesthetics of difficulty brings out the effectiveness of works of art that practice concealment, not disclosure. The unrepresentability of God in the Old Testament, for example, and the direct link between faith and unrepresentability (God is a deus absconditus , a hidden god) suggest that it is precisely that which has been denied representation (God’s image) that will be incorruptible, never appropriated, and therefore endure the longest. In other words, the desire not to represent, the effort to make revelation a difficult...
Smith, Adam (1723–90) Reference library
The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy
...were exceptional and isolated individuals, living on the ruins of medieval society, they could not see society as an objective structure governed by laws, whether moral or physical. In the Reformation, the emerging modern society took the form of God but it remained as deus absconditus . Hobbes accepted the inalienable natural right of self-preservation of every individual, but then had to postulate the absolute power of the Sovereign to ensure the peaceful co-existence of the subjects. Locke made such peaceful coexistence possible by introducing the...
Erwin Chargaff (1905–2002) Reference library
Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations
...me, slowly and hesitatingly, to biology was its darkness surrounded by the brightness of the givenness of nature, the holiness of life. And so I have always oscillated between the brightness of reality and the darkness of the unknowable. When Pascal speaks of God in hiding, Deus absconditus , we hear not only the profound existential thinker, but also the great searcher for the reality of the world. I consider this unquenchable resonance as the greatest gift that can be bestowed on a naturalist. Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life before Nature (1978), 55...
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Robert Kolb
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Martin Luther
...as well as specifically in the lives of the baptized. In De servo arbitrio he emphasized that God Hidden ( Deus absconditus ) lies beyond the grasp of the human mind; sin has only intensified the gap between the creature’s limited ability to understand the Creator and the reality of his being. In 1525 , Luther discouraged seeking comprehension of God Hidden, urging readers to flee to the revelation God has provided in Jesus Christ ( Deus revelatus ). Schwarzwäller’s insistence that Christ’s cross is the key to understanding Luther’s argument in De...
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Jan-Olav Henriksen
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Martin Luther
...other than the God who has revealed God’s self. Accordingly, Gregersen sees Luther’s notion of deus absconditus as a hypostasizing that is both theologically and philosophically untenable (178, n. 19). 48. This point is also made quite strongly by Marius Timmann Mjaaland , The Hidden God: Luther, Philosophy, and Political Theology (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016) , who writes about how Luther places the notion of deus absconditus outside what can be developed fully on the basis of what God has revealed in scripture: “The disturbing...
