Daniel Howard-Snyder is a contemporary American philosopher of religion at Western Washington University. He is known for his contributions to debates on divine hiddenness, the nature of faith, and the problem of evil, often engaging critically with both skeptical and theistic positions. His work on propositional faith and the conditions for rational religious belief has been widely influential in analytic philosophy of religion.
Edited the influential anthology 'The Evidential Argument from Evil' (1996), a key text in contemporary philosophy of religion
Developed nuanced accounts of propositional faith distinguishing it from belief and hope
Contributed substantive responses to Schellenberg's divine hiddenness argument
Argued for relational constraints on divine perfection, including that genuine divinity requires non-solitary personhood
Sustained engagement with the intersection of analytic epistemology and theology
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