摘要:This article explores Polanyi’s views on religion. Reviewing the debate on his understanding of religion, which
originated in Richard Gelwick and Harry Prosch’s conflicting readings of Polanyi on the theme, the article
proposes that there are ambiguities within his writings on the theme which cannot be resolved. There is a
weakness in Polanyi’s work on religion which reflects his limited experience of religious practices and
theological traditions. Nevertheless, his insight that religious knowledge is rooted in the practices of religious
worship is one from which theology has much to learn.
关键词:religion, theology, Christianity, God, reality, science and religion, practice, Michael
Polanyi, Richard Gelwick, Harry Prosch.