Knowing is less about information and more about transformation; less about comprehension and more about being apprehended.
This radical book develops the notion of covenant epistemology–an innovative, biblically compatible, holistic, embodied, life-shaping epistemological vision in which all knowing takes the shape of interpersonal, covenantal relationship. Rather than knowing in order to love, we love in order to know. Meek argues that all knowing is best understood as transformative encounter.
Creatively blending insights from a diverse range of conversation partners–including Michael Polanyi, Michael D. Williams, Lesslie Newbigin, Parker Palmer, John Macmurray, Martin Buber, and James Loder–Meek offers critically needed ‘epistemological therapy’ in response to the pervasive and damaging presumptions that those in Western culture continue to bring to efforts to know.
The book’s innovative approach–an unfolding journey of discovery-through-dialogue–itself subverts standard epistemological presumptions of timeless linearity. While it offers a sustained and sophisticated philosophical argument, Loving to Know’s texts and textures interweave loosely to effect therapeutic epistemic transformation in the reader.
About the author
Esther Lightcap Meek (BA, Cedarville College; MA, Western Kentucky University; Ph D, Temple University) is Professor of Philosophy emeritus at Geneva College and Senior Scholar at The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology. She is a Makoto Fujimura Institute Scholar, a member of The Polanyi Society, and an Associate Fellow with the Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology.Esther is the author of Longing to Know: The Philosophy of Knowledge for Ordinary People (2003), Loving to Know: Introducing Covenant Epistemology (2011), A Little Manual for Knowing (2014), and Contact with Reality: Michael Polanyi’s Realism and Why It Matters (2017). Her books and many publications express philosophical insights in every-day language for all of us. She also gives courses, workshops and talks for high schools, colleges and graduate institutions, as well as for businesses, churches, and other organizations. Visit her website: www.estherlightcapmeek.com
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