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Longing to Know

By: Esther L. Meek,Esther Lightcap Meek

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Longing to Know

By: Esther L. Meek,Esther Lightcap Meek

How can we know God? This entertaining and approachable guide is for all those struggling with issues of truth, certainty, and doubt.

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1587430606

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A Little Manual for Knowing

By: Esther Lightcap Meek

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In refreshing challenge to the common presumption that knowing involves amassing information, this book offers an eight-step approach that begins with love and pledge and ends with communion and shalom. Everyday adventures of knowing turn on a moment of insight that transforms and connects knower and known. No matter the field--science or art, business or theology, counseling or athletics--this little manual offers a how-to for knowing ventures. It offers concrete guidance to individuals or teams, students or professionals, along with plenty of exercises to spark the process of discovery, design, artistry, or mission.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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163087177X

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9781630871772

Loving to Know

Covenant Epistemology

By: Esther Lightcap Meek

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Covenant Epistemology

By: Esther Lightcap Meek

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.

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500

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1621893162

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9781621893165

Contact with Reality

Michael Polanyi’s Realism and Why It Matters

By: Esther Lightcap Meek

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Contact with Reality

Michael Polanyi’s Realism and Why It Matters

By: Esther Lightcap Meek

Is knowledge discovered, or just invented? Can we ever get outside ourselves to know how reality is in itself, independent of us? Philosophical realism raises the question whether in our knowing we connect with an independent reality--or only connect with our own mental constructs. Far from being a silly parlor game, the question impacts our lives concretely and deeply. Modern Western culture has been infected with antirealism and the doubt, skepticism, subjectivism, relativism, and atheism that attends it--not to mention distrust and arbitrary (mis)use of reality. Premier scientist-turned-philosopher Michael Polanyi stepped aside from research to offer an innovative account of knowing that takes its cue from how discovery actually happens. Polanyi defied the antirealism of the twentieth century, sounding a ringing note of hope in his repeated claim that in discovery, we know we have made contact with reality because "we have a sense of the possibility of indeterminate future manifestations." And that sense marks contact with reality, because it is the way reality is: abundant, generous, and fraught with as-yet-unnameable possibilities. This book examines that distinctive claim, contrasting it to the wider philosophical discussions regarding realism and antirealism in the recent decades. It shows why Polanyi's outlook is superior, and why that matters, not just to scientific discoverers, but to us all.

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320

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1498239846

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9781498239844

Doorway to Artistry

Attuning Your Philosophy to Enhance Your Creativity

By: Esther Lightcap Meek

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Doorway to Artistry

Attuning Your Philosophy to Enhance Your Creativity

By: Esther Lightcap Meek

Your artistry involves you intimately with the world around and beyond you. So your artistry involves profound but simple philosophical matters. As a human person, you are artful and philosophical, at the core of your being. Doorway to Artistry offers a playful, everyday philosophical approach necessary for life, integration, healing, and thriving in artistry. It reflects on the real and how we are involved with it, especially in our creative effort. In short, the real hospitably welcomes us, and in our artistry we reciprocate in noble courtesy. Human persons were made for this communion with the real. Find in this book a hospitable welcome to belong at home beyond where you are.

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1666769703

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9781666769708

Longing to Know

By: Esther Lightcap Meek

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Longing to Know

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We don't often think about the act of knowing, but if we do, the question of what we know and how we know it becomes murky indeed. Longing to Know is a book about knowing: knowing how we know things, knowing how we know people, and knowing how we know God. This book is for those who are considering Christianity for the first time, as well as Christians who are struggling with issues related to truth, certainty, and doubt. As such, it is a wonderful resource for evangelists, pastors, and counselors. This unique look at the questions of knowing is both entertaining and approachable. Questions for reflection make it ideal for students of philosophy and all those wrestling with the questions of knowledge.

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208

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Baker Books

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1585584533

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9781585584536

Loving to Know

Covenant Epistemology

By: Esther Lightcap Meek

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Covenant Epistemology

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1608999289

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A Little Manual for Knowing

By: Esther Lightcap Meek

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Esther's Poems

By: Esther Franklin

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Esther's Poems

By: Esther Franklin

Poems that were written through the years for relatives and friends. The author has lived a very full life throughout her 94 years so she has the opportunity to write not only for relatives but also for friends. Researching and writing about Thomas Jefferson, she also met interesting individuals. Hopefully, this book will reflect the expansive nature of her life.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1796084158

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Longing to Know

Longing to Know

A Little Manual for Knowing

A Little Manual for Knowing

Loving to Know

Loving to Know

Contact with Reality

Contact with Reality

Doorway to Artistry

Doorway to Artistry

Longing to Know

Longing to Know

Loving to Know

Loving to Know

A Little Manual for Knowing

A Little Manual for Knowing

Esther's Poems

Esther's Poems

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