ABSTRACT

This chapter will continue to respond to the question of what defines the emerging genre of spiritually-engaged knowledge. The previous chapter proposed that spiritually-engaged knowledge is inescapably ethical since it is based on an ethic of meeting which emerges from the encounter with the Other. There is, however, also a subjective aspect to this knowledge which I began to identify and which defines the epistemological strategy of such knowledge. I referred to it as radical empiricism or, more descriptively, attentive love. Having explored the ethical dimension of spiritually-engaged knowledge, I now turn to an exploration of the epistemological dimension.