{"product_id":"truth-in-the-making-robert-c-miner-9780415276986","title":"Truth in the Making: Creative Knowledge in Theology and Philosophy","description":"Is knowing a purely passive reception of something concrete outside the mind, or when we know something, are we creating something too?\u003cbr\u003eSpanning more than 500 years of philosophical enquiry from the Middle Ages to the present day, Robert Miner clarifies modern philosophical conceptions of knowing as making or constructing, and contrasts this view with the theological understanding of knowing as a participation in divine creation.\u003cbr\u003eThis study demonstrates how 'creative knowledge' has its roots in the theologies of Thomas Aquinas and Nicholas Cusanus. It explores the multiple ways in which this idea influenced the architects of modern philosophy, most notably Francis Bacon, René Descartes and Thomas Hobbes, despite their secular stance. Miner contends that, well in advance of Kant, one of these thinkers, Gaimbattista Vico provided a remarkably succinct formulation of the metaphysical and epistemological core of modernity in his principle verum et factum convertuntur: 'the true and the made are convertible'.\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eTruth in the Making, \u003c\/em\u003e Robert Miner challenges the standard assumption that Kant was the first thinker to conceive of knowing as constructive activity, and shows how contemporary theology can reclaim a concept of knowing that is both creative and participant in divine wisdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert C. Miner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415276985\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415276986\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/18\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.18h x 6.20w x 0.60d","brand":"Robert C. Miner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48991719686399,"sku":"9780415276986","price":60.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/truth-in-the-making-robert-c-miner-9780415276986","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}