The school of “Boston Personalism” which flourished in the first half of the twentieth century deserves a higher public awareness – their relative obscurity is significant for my thesis that Christianity’s best modern minds have been undeservedly “submerged” by historical forces which favored less worthy ideas. Gary Dorrien (Union Theol. Sem.) brings this sunken strand [...]
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Albert C. Knudson – American theologian
Posted in Constructive Orthodoxy, personalism, philosophy, theology, tagged Albert Cornelius Knudson, American Methodists, American theology, Borden Parker Bowne, Boston Personalists, Boston University, Christianity, Gary Dorrien, Liberal Theology, Methodists, theism on June 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Personal knowledge and the worldview of Personalism
Posted in personalism, philosophy, tagged Borden Parker Bowne, Michael Polanyi, personal idealism, personal realism, personality, science, scientific method, theism, theology on June 2, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Michael Polanyi was an internationally regarded Professor of Physical Chemistry at Manchester University when he was selected to deliver the 1951-52 Gifford Lectures at the University of Aberdeen. I start by rejecting the ideal of scientific detachment. In the exact sciences this false ideal is perhaps harmless, for it is in fact disregarded there by [...]
