03200nam 2200661 450 991083007700332120230819122710.01-281-31062-X97866113106220-470-77410-X0-470-77548-3(CKB)1000000000412406(EBL)351585(OCoLC)476172845(SSID)ssj0000216663(PQKBManifestationID)11912294(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000216663(PQKBWorkID)10201531(PQKB)10888285(MiAaPQ)EBC351585(MiAaPQ)EBC7235429(Au-PeEL)EBL7235429(OCoLC)1376193477(EXLCZ)99100000000041240620230819d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe other calling theology, intellectual vocation and truth /Andrew ShanksMalden, MA :Blackwell Publishing Ltd,[2007]©20071 online resource (226 p.)Illuminations--theory and religionIncludes index.1-4051-5767-4 1-4051-5766-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; 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 among the 'Moderns' and the 'Postmoderns'; 4 'Philosophic Politics' (II): Strauss and the 'Ancients'; 5 Anti-Philosophical Philosophy (I): Koje` ve's Critique of the 'Cloistered Mind'; 6 Anti-Philosophical Philosophy (II): Epicurus, Rousseau; Part II: Theology; 7 Beyond Metaphysics: 'The Science of the Sacralization of Honesty, in Theist, Catholic Form'8 Coleridge's Notion of the 'Clerisy'9 Sacramentally Rooted Thought; 10 'The Conflict': From Amos to Hegel, and Girard; 11 What is an Intellectual?/Why Theology?; Index; 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, explIlluminations--theory and religion.Philosophy and religionReligious thoughtIntellectualsPhilosophy and religion.Religious thought.Intellectuals.201/.61Shanks Andrew1954-775911MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910830077003321The other calling2288688UNINA