J. L. Schellenberg ist ein kanadischer Philosoph, dessen frühe Entwicklung eines Arguments aus göttlicher Verborgenheit für den Atheismus Einfluss hatte. In seinem späteren Werk entwickelte er eine Form der Religion namens „skeptische Religion“, die er mit dem Atheismus für vereinbar hält. Seine Schriften befassen sich mit tiefgreifenden Fragen des Glaubens, des Zweifels und der Natur des Göttlichen.
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.