The other calling : theology, intellectual vocation and truth / / Andrew Shanks
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| Autore: |
Shanks Andrew <1954->
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| Titolo: |
The other calling : theology, intellectual vocation and truth / / Andrew Shanks
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| Pubblicazione: | Malden, MA : , : Blackwell Publishing Ltd, , [2007] |
| ©2007 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (226 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 201/.61 |
| Soggetto topico: | Philosophy and religion |
| Religious thought | |
| Intellectuals | |
| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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; | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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, expl |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The other calling |
| ISBN: | 1-281-31062-X |
| 9786611310622 | |
| 0-470-77410-X | |
| 0-470-77548-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996202108203316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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Serie:
Illuminations--theory and religion.