Introduction to the thesis

 

OK, this will be my official blog for working out some public details on my Th.M. thesis and the requisite tributary works.

I am going with abided knowing for now so I don’t have to rip off Mike Williams and Esther Meek’s term covenant epistemology. I hope that this work will support their work.

abided- We as knowers are bound to our sense of self, to our body, to others, to the world and to God. Abided is past tense because we come to the world already bound to the above, in full fiduciary relationship (ht: Michael Polanyi).

knowing- We are knowers, not containers of knowledge. The enmeshed relationship between the knower and the known (ht: Marjorie Grene) is so often denigrated in modern philosophy that the term ‘epistemology’ no longer speaks to what I call ‘knowing’. In order to forge an exegetical view of knowing from the Judeo-Christian literature, new terms are needed to avoid confusion with the parlance of analytic philosophy.

abided knowing- How do the scriptures portray a way of knowing that is better, if at all? Assuming the epistemic pervasiveness of our sin, is there a persistent and prescriptive way of knowing all the aspects of this world to which we are bound? This is the goal for now. These initial questions will inevitably sharpen and/or change.