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

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Full title :The other calling : theology, intellectual vocation and truth / Andrew Shanks.

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Publication Date:2007.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Blackwell Pub
Place of Publication:Malden, MA
Language:eng
Publication Date:2007.

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Title from title screen (viewed on March 27, 2008).

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Description:1 online resource (213 pages)

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ISBN:9780470774106, 047077410X, 9780470775486, 0470775483, 9786611310622, 6611310622
DOI:10.1002/9780470774106
oclc:ocn214282217
LC Classification:BL51
Dewey Decimal:201/.61

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?

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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Gaia & Earth Ene… Intellectuals Intellectuels Pensée religieuse Philosophie et religion Philosophy and religion RELIGION -- Christianity Religious thought