Why I wrote Longing to Know:

People considering knowing God can't help but have questions about knowing. Longing to Know addresses these questions by offering a fresh model concerning how people know anything at all.

Knowing is a profoundly human longing, a struggle responsibly to make sense of experience by shaping patterns and then submitting to their reality. Knowing, thus defined, turns out to be woven throughout the fabric of our lives. Ordinary acts of knowing happen pervasively. Knowing God is just such an ordinary act of knowing. As the book repeats in its primary illustration, knowing God is like knowing your auto mechanic.

This message restores hope and confidence, as well as a sense of humility, adventure, and stewardship concerning knowing in general, and knowing God in particular. My hope is that the book will heighten readers' longing to know. Read more.

What Longing to Know is about

In my recently released book, Longing to Know: The Philosophy of Knowledge for Ordinary People (Brazos Press, 2003), I develop and recommend a proposal concerning how people know and what knowing is all about.

Questions concerning how we know what we know and what counts as knowledge are the subject matter of one of the major divisions of Western philosophy, epistemology (episteme is Greek for knowledge). The other branches of philosophy intertwine inevitably with questions of knowing: questions concerning what is real (metaphysics), and questions concerning what is good value (axiology, ethics). Read more.