The Other Calling: Theology, Intellectual Vocation and Truth
Theology, Intellectual Vocation and Truth
Samenvatting
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
Specificaties
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<p>PART I: PHILOSOPHY.</p>
<p>1. The Incompleteness of Philosophy Alone.</p>
<p>2. Philosophy and Folk Religion: Two ′Forms′ for a Single ′Content′.</p>
<p>3. ′Philosophic Politics′ (i): Strauss amongst ′the Moderns′ and ′the Postmoderns′.</p>
<p>4. ′Philosophic Politics′ (ii): Strauss and ′the Ancients′.</p>
<p>5. Anti–Philosophical Philosophy (i): Kojève′s Critique of the ′Cloistered Mind′.</p>
<p>6. Anti–Philosophical Philosophy (ii): Epicurus, Rousseau.</p>
<p>PART II: THEOLOGY.</p>
<p>7. Beyond Metaphysics: ′the Science of the Sacralisation of Honesty, in Theist, Catholic form′.</p>
<p>8. Coleridge′s Notion of the ′Clerisy′.</p>
<p>9. Sacramentally Framed Thought.</p>
<p>10. ′The Conflict′: From Amos to Hegel, and Girard.</p>
<p>11. What is an Intellectual? / Why Theology?.</p>
<p>Notes.</p>
<p>Index</p>