A Little Manual for Knowing

3.5 I loved so much about this book and yet it was cloaked, unneccesarily, in lifeless language. Meek comes out swinging against the knowledge-as-information model but she does it as if knowledge were information with her SFI models and academic language. I loved the message, though and if you really......more

Fantastic. Her style takes a bit of getting used to, but once you've got it, it goes pretty quickly. There is so much to just soak in...every page is a treasure. This should be required reading for Life 101.......more

Interested to read more of this author. This work was a lot more...mystical than I was expecting it to be. I hear echoes of Jung, Erickson, Polanyi, even the Princeton theologians. Key takeaways: -"reality" is not inert. -knowing is a transformative process that affects the whole knower. -knowledge hap......more

I really struggled to finish this book, Meek writes in a way that I personally find quite confusing and disorientating. Despite that, it's an easy 5* because the central idea, Covenantal Epistemology, is so fresh and helpful. Covenantal Epistemology is essentially the idea that the act of knowing (e......more

4.2, great summary for her ideas (I’m assuming, since I’ve only read Longing to Know and heard people talk about her other books). It also felt like the perfect thing to read as I’m just starting A&P and feel like I’m simultaneously loving to learn and dreading it at the same time. Meek’s covenantal......more