The Other Calling: Theology, Intellectual Vocation and Truth (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781405157667)

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

Author: Andrew Shanks
ISBN-10: 1405157666
ISBN-13: 9781405157667
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 01/23/2007
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.14h x 6.30w x 0.73d