Andrew Shanks is the Canon Theologian for Manchester Cathedral. He is also the author of the following books: Hegel's Political Theology (1991), Civil Society, Civil Religion (Blackwell, 1995), God and Modernity (2000), What is Truth? (2001), and Faith in Honesty (2006).

• Introduction: Why Theology? / What is an Intellectual?. 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

“This book is a brave counter to both anti-intellectualism and intellectual élitism, and would be worth buying simply for the opening and closing chapters, where the essentials of the argument are clearly articulated. Nevertheless, those who wish to overhear the author coming to his conclusions in conversation with the likes of Plato, Hegel, Leo Strauss, Alexandre Kojève, Coleridge, and Girard will find the intervening chapters intellectually demanding, but also consistently enlightening.” Church Times

Andrew Shanks is the Canon Theologian for Manchester Cathedral. He is also the author of the following books: Hegel's Political Theology (1991), Civil Society, Civil Religion (Blackwell, 1995), God and Modernity (2000), What is Truth? (2001), and Faith in Honesty (2006).

• Introduction: Why Theology? / What is an Intellectual?. 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

“This book is a brave counter to both anti-intellectualism and intellectual élitism, and would be worth buying simply for the opening and closing chapters, where the essentials of the argument are clearly articulated. Nevertheless, those who wish to overhear the author coming to his conclusions in conversation with the likes of Plato, Hegel, Leo Strauss, Alexandre Kojève, Coleridge, and Girard will find the intervening chapters intellectually demanding, but also consistently enlightening.” Church Times

Andrew Shanks is the Canon Theologian for Manchester Cathedral. He is also the author of the following books: Hegel's Political Theology (1991), Civil Society, Civil Religion (Blackwell, 1995), God and Modernity (2000), What is Truth? (2001), and Faith in Honesty (2006).

• Introduction: Why Theology? / What is an Intellectual?. 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

“This book is a brave counter to both anti-intellectualism and intellectual élitism, and would be worth buying simply for the opening and closing chapters, where the essentials of the argument are clearly articulated. Nevertheless, those who wish to overhear the author coming to his conclusions in conversation with the likes of Plato, Hegel, Leo Strauss, Alexandre Kojève, Coleridge, and Girard will find the intervening chapters intellectually demanding, but also consistently enlightening.” Church Times