Abstract
This paper posits that the “age of disbelief” is rooted in both Cartesian and positivistic epistemologies. The primary thrust of both of these epistemologies is a decisive separation between self and world. This paper explores the problems of such a separation and proposes an alternative epistemology, an epistemology of “participating consciousness.” Drawing upon the work of Michael Polanyi, the paper uses the constructs of tacit knowing, indwelling, and fiduciary commitment to explicate how an epistemology of “participating consciousness” overcomes the self‐world rupture. Faith knowing shaped by this epistemology is a knowing of integrative wholeness.
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