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

While St. Anselm does not supply us with an explicit discussion of the problem divine hiddenness (PDH) as it is typically conceived today—namely, argument for atheism—he keenly aware existential difficulty posed by our seeming lack access to God. Moreover, he provides ingredients interesting and heretofore neglected approach PDH, one rooted in multiple Christian narratives about lapses from knowledge-infused states grace, both angelic human. The goal this paper draw out that Anselmian explicitly, provide at least a rudimentary assessment it.