page_title: The revealed God
hierarchical_section_title: The revealed God
caption_attribution_description: English: Title page of On the Bondage of the Will
context_page_description: The Revealed God in Christian theology is a term coined by Martin Luther which affirms that the ultimate self-revelation of God is in his hiddenness. It is the particular focus of Luther’s work the Heidelberg Theses of 1518, presented during the Heidelberg disputation of 1518. In Christian theology, God is presented as revealed or ‘deus revelatus’ through the suffering of Jesus Christ on the cross. Debate of the term is found in the field of ‘Philosophy of Religion, ’ where it is contested among philosophers such as J. L. Schellenberg. The term is usually distinguished from Luther’s concept of ‘The Hidden God’ or ‘deus absconditus’ which proposes that God actively hides. It is accepted that God is invisible, however Luther posed God as an actively hiding who can use this hiding to reveal himself. This distinction which permeates his theology has been the subject of wide interpretation, leading to controversy between theologians who believe the terms to be either antithetical or identical. These two conflicting strands of thought present the main problem when interpreting Luther’s doctrine of the Revealed God.
context_section_description: The Revealed God (Latin: deus revelatus) in Christian theology is a term coined by Martin Luther which affirms that the ultimate self-revelation of God is in his hiddenness.  It is the particular focus of Luther’s work the Heidelberg Theses of 1518, presented during the Heidelberg disputation of 1518.  In Christian theology, God is presented as revealed or ‘deus revelatus’ through the suffering of Jesus Christ on the cross.  Debate of the term is found in the field of ‘Philosophy of Religion,’ where it is contested among philosophers such as J. L. Schellenberg.  The term is usually distinguished from Luther’s concept of ‘The Hidden God’ or ‘deus absconditus’ which proposes that God actively hides.  It is accepted that God is invisible, however Luther posed God as an actively hiding who can use this hiding to reveal himself.  This distinction which permeates his theology has been the subject of wide interpretation, leading to controversy between theologians who believe the terms to be either antithetical or identical.  These two conflicting strands of thought present the main problem when interpreting Luther’s doctrine of the Revealed God.  In recent years the term has been used to inform modern analysis of religious themes such as evolution.
caption: On the Bondage of the Will (De Servo Arbitrio).
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