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Loving to know : Introducing covenant epistemology / Esther Lightcap Meek.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, (c)2011.Description: xvi, 518 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781498213240
  • 9781608999286
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BT50 .L685 2011
  • BT50
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Contents:
Texture 1: Rekindling the longing to know -- Another kind of knowing : suggestive preliminary conversations and proposal -- What covenant epistemology offers -- Knowing as subsidiary-focal integration : conversation with Michael Polanyi -- Texture 2: Body knowledge : forays into the subsidiary -- Knowing as transformation : conversation with James Loder -- Texture 3: Knowing as transformation, not information : implications for academic and theological curriculum, education, and pedagogy -- Knowing as stewardship : conversation with John Frame -- Texture 4: Anticipative knowing and common grace -- Knowing as unfolding covenant relationship : conversation with Mike Williams -- Knowing as interpersonal : conversation with John Macmurray -- Knowing as I-You encounter : conversation with Martin Buber -- Texture 5: Friendship and learning : all knowing is knowing with -- Knowing before the face of the Holy : second conversation with James Loder -- Texture 6: A sense of personal beauty -- Knowing and healthy interpersonhood : conversation with David Schnarch -- Texture 7: Dance as metaphysical therapy -- Knowing as dance : conversation with Colin Gunton -- Reality as gift : conversation with Philip Rolnick -- Texture 8: Stopping short of personhood : inadvertent insights from Marjorie Grene -- Contours of covenant epistemology -- Inviting the real : an epistemological etiquette -- Knowing for Shalom.
Subject: 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 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.
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The need for 'epistemological therapy' : our defective 'default' in knowing -- Texture 1: Rekindling the longing to know -- Another kind of knowing : suggestive preliminary conversations and proposal -- What covenant epistemology offers -- Knowing as subsidiary-focal integration : conversation with Michael Polanyi -- Texture 2: Body knowledge : forays into the subsidiary -- Knowing as transformation : conversation with James Loder -- Texture 3: Knowing as transformation, not information : implications for academic and theological curriculum, education, and pedagogy -- Knowing as stewardship : conversation with John Frame -- Texture 4: Anticipative knowing and common grace -- Knowing as unfolding covenant relationship : conversation with Mike Williams -- Knowing as interpersonal : conversation with John Macmurray -- Knowing as I-You encounter : conversation with Martin Buber -- Texture 5: Friendship and learning : all knowing is knowing with -- Knowing before the face of the Holy : second conversation with James Loder -- Texture 6: A sense of personal beauty -- Knowing and healthy interpersonhood : conversation with David Schnarch -- Texture 7: Dance as metaphysical therapy -- Knowing as dance : conversation with Colin Gunton -- Reality as gift : conversation with Philip Rolnick -- Texture 8: Stopping short of personhood : inadvertent insights from Marjorie Grene -- Contours of covenant epistemology -- Inviting the real : an epistemological etiquette -- Knowing for Shalom.

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 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.

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