The Other Calling

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.

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• Asserts that intellectuals are critical to bringing together the common aspirations of a community
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• 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

The Other Calling features in the following genres: Religion and beliefs

The Other Calling is available in Hardback

The Other Calling was written by Andrew Shanks and published by Wiley Blackwell an imprint of Wiley

The Other Calling has 213 pages

Yes it is part of Illuminations, Theory and Religion series