The Other Calling

Theology, Intellectual Vocation and Truth
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-4051-5766-7
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 507 g

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

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 of the 'Cloistered Mind'.

6. Anti-Philosophical Philosophy (ii): Epicurus, Rousseau.

PART II: THEOLOGY.

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?.

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).