LONGING TO KNOW: RELATED READING LIST

These are books that I feel confirm and expand the Longing to Know message. I have listed these books by general area. Some, however, could have been listed in several areas!

-- Art/Literature Criticism

• Dark, David. Everyday Apocalypse: The Sacred Revealed in Radiohead, The Simpsons and Other Pop Culture Icons. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos, 2002.

--Assessment

• Harris, John, and Dennis Sansom. Discerning is More Than Counting. American Academy for Liberal Education Occasional Papers in Liberal Education #3.

--Biblical Hermeneutics

• Charlesworth, James. “Polanyi, Merleau-Ponty, Arendt, and the Foundation of Biblical Hermeneutics.” Interpretation of the Bible. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998.
• Smith, James K. A. The Fall of Interpretation: Philosophical Foundations for a Creational Hermeneutic. Downers Grove, IL: Inter-Varsity Press, 2000.
• Vanhooser, Kevin. Is There A Meaning in This Text?The Bible, The Reader, and the Morality of Literary Knowledge. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1998.

--Biblical Studies, Theology

• Frame, John. The Doctrine of the Knowledge of God: A Theology of Lordship. Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R, 1987.
• Gunton, Colin. The One, the Three and the Many: God, Creation, and the Culture of Modernity. Cambridge: University Press, 1993.
• Gunton, Colin, and Schwoebel, Charles, eds. Persons Human and Divine: King’s College Essays in Theological Anthropology. London: T&T Clark, 2000.
• Paul, Iain. Knowledge of God: Calvin, Einstein and Polanyi. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1987.
• Williams, Michael D. Far as the Curse is Found: The Covenant Story of Redemption. Phillipsburg, NJ, 2005.
• Moleski, Martin, S.J. Personal Catholicism: The Theological Epistemologies of John Henry Newman and Michael Polanyi. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University Press, 2000.

--Body Knowledge

• Gendlin, Eugene T. Focusing. New York: Bantam Books, 1979.
• Gendlin, Eugene T. A Process Model. The Focusing Institute, 1997.
• Moltmann-Wendel, Elisabeth. I Am My Body: A Theology of Embodiment. New York: Continuum, 1995.
• Porter, Roy. Flesh and the Age of Reason. W.W. Norton & Company; 2004.
• Wit (the film)

--Business

• Von Krogh, George, Kauo Ichijo, and Ikujiro Nonaka. Enabling Knowledge Creation: How to Unlock the Mystery of Tacit Knowledge and Release the Power of Innovation. Oxford: University Press, 2000.

--Counseling

• Allender, Dan B. The Healing Path: How the Hurts in Your Past Can Lead You to a More Abundant Life. Waterbrook, 2000.
• Shults, F. LeRon and Steven J. Sandage. The Many Faces of Forgiveness: Searching for Wholeness and Salvation. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2003.

--Cultural Critique

• Gunton, Colin. Enlightenment and Alienation: An Essay towards a Trinitarian Theology.  Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1985.
• Kierkegaard, Soren. “Becoming Sober,” in For Self-Examination/Judge for Yourself! (Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong, trans., eds.). Princeton: University Press, 1990, pp. 93-144.

--Education

• Palmer, Parker. To Know As We Are Known: Education as a Spiritual Journey. HarperSanFrancisco, 1993.

--Gender Studies

• Belenky, Mary Field, Blythe McVicker Clinchy, Nancy Rule Goldberger, and Jill Mattuck Tarule. Women’s Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind. New York: Basic Books, 1986.
• Clinchy, Blythe. “Connected and Separate Knowing: toward a Marriage of Two Minds.” Knowledge, Difference and Power: Essays Inspired by Women’s Ways of Knowing. by Nancy Goldberger, Jill Tarule, Blythe Clinchy, and Mary Belenky. New York: Basic Books, 1996.

--Popular epistemology

• Garber, Steven. “Loving, Mourning, Knowing,” Discernment: A Newsletter of the Center for Applied Christian Ethics, Wheaton College, IX, 2/3 (Summer/Fall 2004).
• Gladwell, Malcolm. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. New York: Little Brown, 2005.
• Percy, Walker. “Naming and Being,” Signposts in a Strange Land, Picador USA, 2000, pp. 131-38.

--Michael Polanyi

• Grene, Marjorie, ed. Knowing and Being: Essays by Michael Polanyi. Chicago: University Press, 1969.
• olanyi, Michael. The Tacit Dimension. New York: Doubleday, 1966.
• Meek, Esther L. “Learning to See: The Role of Authoritative Guides in Knowing.” Forthcoming, Tradition and Discovery.
• Tacit Knowing, Truthful Knowing: The Life and Thought of Michael Polanyi. Mars Hill Audio Report #2.

--Personhood

• Buber, Martin. I and Thou. New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1970.
• MacMurray, John. The Self As Agent. London: Faber and Faber, 1961.
• MacMurray, John. Persons in Relation. London: Faber and Faber, 1961.
• May, Rollo. The Discovery of Being: Writings in Existential Psychology. New York: W. W. Norton, 1983.
• Speidell, Todd H., ed. On Being a Person: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Personality Theories. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2002.
• Zizioulas, John. “Human Capacity and Human Incapacity: A Theological Exploration of Personhood.” Scottish Journal of Theology (28), pp. 401-448.

--Science

• Polanyi, Michael. Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy. Chicago: University Press, 1958.

--Spirituality

• Loder, James. The Transforming Moment, 2nd ed. Colorado Springs: Helmers & Howard, 1989.
• Newbigin, Lesslie. Proper Confidence: Faith, Doubt and Certainty in Christian Discipleship. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1995.
• Seerveld, Calvin. On Being Human: Imaging God in the Modern World. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Welch Publishing, 1988.
• Weil, Simone. Waiting for God. Perennial, 2001.