“Loving to Know”: Introducing Covenant Epistemology
Meek’s 2011 book "Loving to Know" suggests that the paradigm of knowing is not modernism’s “knowledge as information” mindset but rather the interpersonal, covenantally constituted, transformative encounter and communion between knower and yet-to-be-known, a relationship best typified in the redemptive encounter. We do not know in order to love; we love in order to know. Covenant epistemology weaves together three strands: polymath Michael Polanyi’s epistemology (which describes what we are actually doing in all our knowing), the notion of covenant as constituted relationship, and the motif of “interpersonhood.” Reality, Meeks argues, is person-like, so the best practices of knowing invite the real. In covenant epistemology, you’ll find a vision of knowing for shalom and deep nourishment for all your life, work, and worship.
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October 17, 2023