Grant Gillett

Critical Conversations

Philosophy

“This volume is a welcome addition to the literature bridging science and theology as it explores the work of a major thinker who allows us to go beyond . . . shallow post-Enlightenment objectivism. . . . Polanyi showed us that the knower could not be expunged from what was known and so confirmed observations both by Kierkegaard and Heidegger about the extent to which we frame our discoveries by the spirit with which we approach them. To see Polanyi's work examined in this way is a vindication for those who have attempted to be rigorously post-critical in the rapprochement between contemporary theological epistemology and the philosophy of science. Rae and his authors have done us all a service by providing a volume with that ethos and a clear-cut . . . theological commitment.”