Esther Lightcap Meek (BA Cedarville College, MA Western Kentucky University, PhD Temple University) is Professor of Philosophy emeritus at Geneva College in Western Pennsylvania. In addition to her appointment as Senior Scholar with The Seattle School for Theology and Psychology, she is a Fujimura Institute Scholar, an Associate Fellow with the Kirby Laing Center for Public Theology, and a member of the Polanyi Society.
Her books include Longing to Know: The Philosophy of Knowledge for Ordinary People (Brazos, 2003); Loving to Know: Introducing Covenant Epistemology (Cascade, 2011); A Little Manual for Knowing (Cascade, 2014); and Contact With Reality: Michael Polanyi’s Realism and Why It Matters (Cascade, 2017). Her forthcoming book is Doorway to Artistry: Attuning Your Philosophy to Enhance Your Creativity (Cascade, 2023).
Have you witnessed the moment when a young mother first sees her newborn child? Mother is holding her infant to herself, gazing into their face in rapture, smiling a joyous, self-giving, surprise-filled, welcome. Recently I learned from a seasoned delivery room nurse that a French phrase, “en face,” names the first face-to-face encounter; medicine deems […]
Many thanks to you all at TSS for your hospitable welcome in this post as Senior Scholar and in this symposium. Together we are inviting the coming of the real in a profounder understanding of and intimacy with it. To this end I offer this small summative piece of brief comments and adjustments. Philosophy in […]
