The Other Calling: Theology, Intellectual Vocation and Truth - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Andrew ShanksSeries:Illuminations: Theory & ReligionTheme:Religious Orientation/ChristianPublish date:1/23/2007Pages:248
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Wiley-BlackwellISBN-13:9781405157667ISBN-10:1405157666UPC:9781405157667Book Category:Religion, Biography & Autobiography, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Theology, ReligiousSize:9.14 x 6.30 x 0.73 inchesWeight:0.44Product ID:SCXWD5K6DW
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
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Wiley-BlackwellISBN-13:9781405157667ISBN-10:1405157666UPC:9781405157667Book Category:Religion, Biography & Autobiography, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Theology, ReligiousSize:9.14 x 6.30 x 0.73 inchesWeight:0.44Product ID:SCXWD5K6DW
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).
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