Synopsis: 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. Endorsements: "Nobody
acquainted with philosophical epistemology would associate it with
eloquence or passion. So Loving to Know is extraordinary, because
this is epistemology presented with both eloquence and passion,
addressed to the person 'on the street' but at the same time
raising issues that professional philosophers should take account
of. In a most creative way, Professor Meeks takes Michael Polanyi's
epistemology, which she perceptively and lucidly summarizes, into
new terrain. She argues that to come to know as we ought to come to
know is to keep covenant. It is to be faithful both to the known
and to oneself, the knower. So take and read. And when you do, you
will learn that how the book came about is itself an example of the
theory, as is the innovative structure of the discussion. The
formation and presentation of the theory display the theory."
--Nicholas Wolterstorff Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of
Philosophical Theology Yale University "Esther Meek has given a
good gift in Loving to Know, continuing her lifelong reflections on
a more human and truthful understanding of knowledge. Drawing on
the best of scholarship, she is her own scholar too, offering a
unique vision of a covenant epistemology, a way of knowing that is
deeply personal and responsible, because it is profoundly
relational. A book for every one of us, as we take up the most
perennial of human questions, viz. what will we do with what we
know?" --Steven Garber Director The Washington Institute "This book
is a tour de force of clarity, depth, and compelling wisdom. Esther
Meek argues that we become what we love and that if we love truth
then we must love to engage in the interpersonal dialogue of seeing
the world well through the prism of another's heart. Her premise is
lived out through dialogue with a range of authors that makes my
head spin. She seizes their wisdom and yet pursues it further to
the person of Christ than any I have read. This is an
epistemologically therapeutic embrace of how to live well in the
world of divergent thought that nevertheless longs to reveal Jesus
as the center of all true wisdom. It is a breathtaking and
beautiful labor." --Dan B. Allender Professor of Counseling
Psychology and Founding President Mars Hill Graduate School Author
Biography: Esther Lightcap Meek is Associate Professor of
Philosophy at Geneva College in Western PA. She is also the author
of Longing to Know: The Philosophy of Knowledge for Ordinary People
(2003).
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