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The other calling : theology, intellectual vocation and truth /

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"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."--Jacket

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shanks, Andrew, 1954-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
Series:Illuminations--theory and religion.
Subjects:
Philosophy and religion.
Religious thought.
Intellectuals.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The incompleteness of philosophy alone
  • Philosophy and folk religion: two 'forms' for a single 'content'
  • 'Philosophic politics' (I): Strauss among the 'moderns' and the 'postmoderns'
  • 'Philosophic politics' (II): Strauss and the 'ancients'
  • Anti-philosophical philosophy (I): Kojève's critique of the 'cloistered mind'
  • Anti-philosophical philosophy (II): Epicurus, Rousseau
  • Beyond metaphysics: 'the science of the sacralization of honesty, in theist Catholic form'
  • Coleridge's notion of the 'clerisy'
  • Sacramentally rooted thought
  • 'The conflict': from Amos to Hegel, and Girard
  • What is an intellectual?/Why theology?