Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical

Volume 42, Issue 2, February 2016

Andrew Grosso
Pages 30-33

On the Hazards of Turning from the Creator to the Creation

I respond to Gulick’s review of Crosby’s work and raise questions having to do with (1) the merits of abstract accounts of religious observance, (2) the viability of nature as an object of religious devotion, and (3) the correspondence between religious truth and moral truth, I also critically examine Gulick’s efforts to supplement Crosby’s work and suggest Gulick’s appropriation of Christian concepts and imagery may require reconsideration,