Notes

1. . Michael Polanyi and Harry Prosch, Meaning (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975); Richard Gelwick, The Way of Discovery: An Introduction to the Thought of Michael Polanyi (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977). Harry Prosch's review of Richard Gelwick The Way of Discovery is in Ethics 89 (January 1979): 211–16. Because 1 had worked closely with Polanyi since 1962 and because I had discussed carefully the entire text of Meaning with him, which is acknowledged in the book, p. xiii, I was surprised at this difference of view between me and Prosch.
2. . J. H. Oldham, Life Is Commitment (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1959), p. 36. In Prosch's reply to this paper in this Zygon issue, he quotes a letter to Oldham by Polanyi of May 31, 1948 where Polanyi states that “our meetings leave me increasingly with the feeling that I have no right to describe myself as a Christian.” But Prosch has quoted this sentence out of context and misrepresented Polanyi. The context of this sentence, which is in the letter and is further amplified in several others that follow, concerns the discussion of Marxism from a sympathetic Christian view. It is not surprising that Polanyi, a strong anti‐Marxist, had doubts about calling himself a Christian if he was expected to entertain a positive attitude toward Marxism! A full reading of the correspondence between Polanyi and Oldham until Oldham's death in 1969 discloses a long friendship in which they saw each other as allies in the struggle for faith and the affirmation of the reality of God. It is evident that Polanyi did not say in 1948 that he was not a Christian; what he was saying was, if he had to be sympathetic to Marxism, he was not sure that he could call himself a Christian.
3. . MichaelPolanyi, “The Scientific Revolution,” The Student World  54 (1961): 287–302.
4. . F. L. Cross (ed.), The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (London: Oxford University Press, 1978), p. 566.
5. . RichardGelwick, “Discovery and Theology,” Scottish Journal of Theology  28 (1975): 301–22 ; “ Exploring Space and Theology,” Student World  59 (1966): 388–98.
6. . Prosch, p. 213.
7. . Gelwick, Way Of Discovery, pp. 101–2.
8. . Ibid., p. 107.
9. . Michael Polanyi, Personal Knowledge (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958), p. 202.
10. . Prosch, p. 213.
11. . Polanyi and Prosch (n. 1 above), pp. 74–75.
12. . Ibid., p. 68.
13. . Michael Polanyi, “From Perception to Metaphor,” in “Meaning: A Project by Michael Polanyi,” lectures at the University of Chicago and University of Texas, February–May, 1969, p. 14.
14. . Prosch, p. 213.
15. . Ibid., pp. 213–14.
16. . Polanyi and Prosch, p. 125.
17. . Ibid., p. 64.
18. . Ibid., p. 67.
19. . Ibid., pp. 109–19.
20. . Polanyi, Personal Knowledge (n. 9 above), p. 347.
21. . Ibid., pp. 283–86.
22. . Ibid., p. 285.
23. . Ibid., pp. 284–85.
24. . Edward Pols, “Polanyi and the Problem of Metaphysical Knowledge,” Intellect and Hope, eds. Thomas A. Langford and William H. Poteat (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1968), pp. 58–90.
25. . Polanyi, Personal Knowledge, p. 405.
26. . Ibid., p. 324.
27. . Michael Polanyi, The Tacit Dimension (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1966), p. 32.
28. . Ibid.
29. . Ibid., p. 33.
30. . Prosch (n. 1 above), p. 216.
31. . Polanyi and Prosch (n. 1 above), p. 42.
32. . Ibid., p. 159.
33. . Prosch, p. 215.
34. . Ibid.
35. . Polanyi, Personal Knowledge, p. 283. See also Paul Tillich, Systematic Theology, vol. 1 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951), pp. 64–65.
36. . Polanyi and Prosch, p. 159.
37. . MichaelPolanyi, “Science and Religion: Separate Dimensions or Common Ground?”Philosophy Today  7 (Spring 1963): 4–14.
38. . Ibid.
39. . Polanyi, Personal Knowledge, p. 279.