The other calling : theology, intellectual vocation and truth

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Title:

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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What is the true calling of the intellectual? In this provocative new book, Andrew Shanks presents a distinctive fresh answer. 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.

Asserts that intellectuals are critical to bringing together the common aspirations of a community
Offers a strikingly original approach to the moral and political aspects of theology's relationship with philosophy, exploring the perspectives of both disciplines
Draws on the work and thought of Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Agnostics, and Atheists
Argues for a new, religiously multicultural "priesthood of all thinkers", considering how once, all intellectuals were as a matter of course also priests
Published in the new and prestigious Illuminations series