J. L. Schellenberg es un filósofo canadiense cuyo desarrollo temprano de un argumento desde la ocultación divina para el ateísmo ha sido influyente. En su obra posterior, ha desarrollado una forma de religión llamada ‘religión escéptica’, que considera compatible con el ateísmo. Sus escritos profundizan en las profundas cuestiones de la creencia, la duda y la naturaleza de lo divino.
In this book, J. L. Schellenberg argues that humanity has developed spiritually and morally in a way that would have been reflected in Christian doctrine if that doctrine had been inspired by a good and all-knowing God, and that Christian doctrine cannot therefore be related to such a God in the way that it purports to be.
Schellenberg's argument is unique in bringing developmental ideas into contact with human religion, which is often treated as exempt from their influence; also radical is the suggestion that much of religion's development has yet to occur and that religion can and should become a human project as monumental as science.