"Loving To Know" Join us for a free public lecture at Malone University

2600 Cleveland Avenue Northwest,Canton OH 44709

02 December, 2021

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C.S. Lewis NEO, in partnership with The Center for Christian Faith & Culture, presents: Loving to Know with Dr. Esther Lightcap Meek In our time, many people despair that we can know what is true and real. These philosophical concerns impact everything we think, anything we do, and all that we are. They thwart our study, our work, our civic involvement, our worship and church life. Philosopher Esther Meek, PhD, identifies the inherited baggage of a skewed modern mindset that fuels this despair. She offers philosophical therapy to show how our knowing already actually works, to restore us to a rich and confident approach to knowing and the real—to restore us to ourselves as human persons in a real world open to God. “We love in order to know.” In contrast to the spirit of our age, Dr. Esther Meek believes that we have been created to know and to be known. We can have true knowledge, and we can be confident that our knowledge connects us to reality itself and to the creator, sustainer, and redeemer of all things. Meek also challenges the modern mindset to insist that philosophizing is your birthright as a human person. It is concrete, practical, life-wide, and for you. You will find her presentations appropriately engaging and of great relevance. We hope you will join us and pray that your faith in “knowing” will be restored and that your relationship with God will be strengthened. Esther Lightcap Meek (BA Cedarville College; MA Western Kentucky University; PhD Temple University) is Professor of Philosophy emeritus at Geneva College, in Western Pennsylvania. She is a Fellow Scholar with the Fujimura Institute, an Associate Fellow with the Kirby Laing Center for Public Theology, and a member of the Polanyi Society. A Christian author and public speaker, Esther helps people restore their deepest orientation toward knowing and reality. In our confused and skeptical age, her work helps us better understand and therefore have greater confidence in truth, wisdom, and in reality itself. Her books, workshops and talks offer her distinctive philosophical proposals “for all of us;” they are used in high schools, colleges and seminaries, churches and other organizations. Esther’s 2003 Longing to Know: The Philosophy of Knowledge for Ordinary People (Brazos) is a book for people considering Christianity who have questions about how we know anything at all. Her 2011 book, Loving to Know: Introducing Covenant Epistemology (Cascade), proposes the interpersonal covenantal relationship as the paradigm for all human knowing. A Little Manual for Knowing (Cascade, 2014) distills covenant epistemology into a how-to for any knowing venture in any field. Contact with Reality: Michael Polanyi’s Realism and Why It Matters (Cascade (2017) expounds the philosopher-turned-scientist’s commitment to reality as there and fraught with “indeterminate future prospects.” She is currently writing Doorway to Artistry, in a series relating her philosophical approach to different areas of life. Dr. Meek now works from Steubenville, Ohio. Find her on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, and at her website, www.estherlightcapmeek.com.