Shanks The Other Calling

Theology, Intellectual Vocation and Truth
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-77548-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Illuminations: Theory & Religion

What is the true calling of the intellectual? In this provocativenew book, Andrew Shanks presents a distinctive fresh answer. TheOther Calling is a systematic riposte both to the elitism ofphilosophy in the heritage of Plato, and to the typicalindividualism of Plato's philosophic opponents. Here, instead,intellectual integrity is identified with a form of priesthood.
* * Asserts that intellectuals are critical to bringing togetherthe common aspirations of a community
* * Offers a strikingly original approach to the moral andpolitical 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 "priesthoodof all thinkers", considering how once, all intellectualswere as a matter of course also priests
* Published in the new and prestigious Illuminationsseries

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shanks, Andrew

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Why Theology? / What is an Intellectual?.
PART I: PHILOSOPHY.
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): Kojève's Critique ofthe 'Cloistered Mind'.
6. Anti-Philosophical Philosophy (ii): Epicurus, Rousseau.
PART II: THEOLOGY.
7. Beyond Metaphysics: 'the Science of the Sacralisation ofHonesty, 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?.
Notes.
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Shanks is the Canon Theologian for Manchester Cathedral. He is also the author of the following books: Hegel's Political Theology (1991), Civil Society, Civil Religion (Blackwell, 1995), God and Modernity (2000), What is Truth? (2001), and Faith in Honesty (2006).