eBooks - Religion & Spirituality - Christianity - Andrew Shanks - The Other Calling: Theology, Intellectual Vocation and Truth


The Other Calling: Theology, Intellectual Vocation and Truth eBook

by Andrew Shanks


Other Calling: Theology, Intellectual Vocation and Truth - Adobe eBook

The Other Calling: Theology, Intellectual Vocation and Truth eBook

Adobe
Platforms
Windows Vista / XP / 2000, Mac OS X, Sony Reader

Features
Advanced navigation, search, bookmarks, and multiple viewing options.

 Availability:
Download Now

Price: $116.94


The Other Calling: Theology, Intellectual Vocation and Truth Summary

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


eBooks  -  Titles  -  Authors  -  Religion & Spirituality  -  Christianity  -  Andrew Shanks  -  The Other Calling: Theology, Intellectual Vocation and Truth