Faith, Form and Meaning

The United Kingdom Centenary Conference on Michael Polanyi’s thought was held at St George’s, Windsor Castle, in November, 1991. It was planned as an exploration of certain key ideas from the later chapters of Personal Knowledge, and thus to contribute to the current, growing conversation between literature, science and theology in the areas of faith, form and meaning. We were particularly encouraged when three distinguished speakers agreed to come: Professor Stephen Prickett from Glasgow University, Professor Brian Goodwin from the Open University and Professor the Rev’d Dan Hardy from Princeton. Their three lectures, summarised below, sparked off searching and lively discussion in the groups that also met. Important contributions were also made by three Hungarian guests

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