The Other Calling: Theology, Intellectual Vocation and Truth

ISBN: 978-1-4051-5766-7

Hardcover

248 pages

January 2007, Wiley-Blackwell

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A provocative and unique book which questions what the true calling is of the intellectual, identifying intellectual integrity 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