The Other Calling: Theology, Intellectual Vocation and Truth - Couverture souple

Shanks, Andrew

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1405157674 ISBN 13 : 9781405157674

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell, 2006

Synopsis

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.

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• Asserts that intellectuals are critical to bringing together the common aspirations of a community
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• 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

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wiley-Blackwell
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1405157674
• ISBN 13: 9781405157674
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 248
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible