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Hegel is a thinker who haunts modern Christian theology. Although forever being refuted and rejected, he is also forever resurgent as an influence. Here Andrew Shanks diagnoses that rejection, very largely, as a defensive reaction against the sheer, troubling, prophetic open-mindedness of his thought.No doubt there is some justice to the charge that Hegel is religiously one-sided; in particular, as this criticism has been developed by Kierkegaard and, more recently, William Desmond. Against Desmond, however, Shanks argues that the critique itself is no less one-sided.The argument focuses espec

Intro -- Contents -- 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 among the 'Moderns' and the 'Postmoderns' -- 4 'Philosophic Politics' (II): Strauss and the 'Ancients' -- 5 Anti-Philosophical Philosophy (I): Koje` ve's Critique of the 'Cloistered Mind' -- 6 Anti-Philosophical Philosophy (II): Epicurus, Rousseau -- Part II: Theology -- 7 Beyond Metaphysics: 'The Science of the Sacralization of Honesty, in Theist, Catholic Form' -- 8 Coleridge's Notion of the 'Clerisy' -- 9 Sacramentally Rooted Thought -- 10 'The Conflict': From Amos to Hegel, and Girard -- 11 What is an Intellectual?/Why Theology? -- Index.