The Other Calling: Theology, Intellectual Vocation and Truth

PART I: PHILOSOPHY.

1. The Incompleteness of Philosophy Alone.

2. Philosophy and Folk Religion: Two 'Forms' for a Single 'Content'.

3. 'Philosophic Politics' (i): Strauss amongst 'the Moderns' and 'the Postmoderns'.

4. 'Philosophic Politics' (ii): Strauss and 'the Ancients'.

5. Anti-Philosophical Philosophy (i): Kojève's Critique of the 'Cloistered Mind'.

6. Anti-Philosophical Philosophy (ii): Epicurus, Rousseau.

PART II: THEOLOGY.

7. Beyond Metaphysics: 'the Science of the Sacralisation of Honesty, in Theist, Catholic form'.

8. Coleridge's Notion of the 'Clerisy'.

9. Sacramentally Framed Thought.

10. 'The Conflict': From Amos to Hegel, and Girard.

11. What is an Intellectual? / Why Theology?.

Notes.

Index