SCIENCE AND REALITY, RELIGION AND GOD: A REPLY TO HARRY PROSCH |
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| Authors: | Richard Gelwick |
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| Institution: | General coordinator of the Polanyi Society, and head of the religion and philosophy department, Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri 65201, presented this paper at the "Consultation on the Thought of' Michael Polanyi" at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion in Dallas, Texas, November 9, 1980. |
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| Abstract: | Abstract. Michael Polanyi saw his epistemology as restoring the capacity of a scientific age to believe again in the reality of God known through religion. This central feature of Polanyi's thought, discussed in my book The Way of Discovery , is disputed by Harry Prosch, co-author with Polanyi of Meaning. Prosch's argument is that while in Polanyi's view science deals with an independent reality, religion and theology do not and are only works of our imagination. This article answers Prosch with a review of Polanyi's Christian affiliations, his conceptions of the common ground of science and religion, the levels of reality to which both science and religion provide access, and his expressed aim to liberate faith from scientific dogmatism. |
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