The other calling : theology, intellectual vocation and truth
by
 
Shanks, Andrew, 1954-

Title
The other calling : theology, intellectual vocation and truth

Author
Shanks, Andrew, 1954-

ISBN
9781405157667
 
9781405157674

Personal Author
Shanks, Andrew, 1954-

Publication Information
Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007.

Physical Description
213 p. ; 24 cm.

Series
Illuminations, theory and religion
 
Illuminations : theory and religion

Series Title
Illuminations, theory and religion

General Note
Formerly CIP.

Contents
Introduction : why theology? / what is an intellectual? -- 1. The incompleteness of philosophy alone -- 2. Philosophy and folk religion : two 'forms' for a single 'content' -- 3. 'Philosophic politics' (I) : Strauss amongst 'the moderns' and 'the postmoderns' -- 4. 'Philosophic politics' (II) : Strauss and 'the ancients' -- 5. Anti-philosophical philosophy (I) : Kojeve's critique of the 'cloistered mind' -- 6. Anti-philosophical philosophy (II) : Epicurus, Rousseau -- 7. Beyond metaphysics : 'the science of the sacralisation of honesty, in theist, Catholic form' -- 8. Coleridge's notion of the 'clerisy' -- 9. Sacramentally framed thought -- 10. 'The conflict' : from Amos to Hegel, and Girard -- 11. What is an intellectual? / why theology?

Abstract
"The Other Calling is a systematic riposte both to the elitism of philosophy in the heritage of Plato, and to the typical individualism of Plato's philosophic opponents. Here instead intellectual integrity is identified with a form of priesthood."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject Term
Philosophy and religion.
 
Religious thought.
 
Intellectuals.

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