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The Other Calling: Theology, Intellectual Vocation and Truth

The Other Calling: Theology, Intellectual Vocation and Truth

Shanks, Andrew

Hardcover

Series: Illuminations: Theory & Religion, Book 5

PhilosophyBiographies GeneralReligion General

ISBN10: 1405157666
ISBN13: 9781405157667
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: Jan 12 2007
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.14
Language: English
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

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