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THE OTHER CALLING
THEOLOGY, INTELLECTUAL VOCATION AND TRUTH |
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Andrew Shanks |
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Hardback |
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ISBN 10: |
1405157666 |
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9781405157667 |
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JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD |
Pub. date: |
18 December, 2006 |
Series: |
Illuminations: Theory & Religion |
Pages: |
248 |
Description: |
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. |
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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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UK |
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Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd) |
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