The Vice of Curiosity: An Essay on Intellectual Appetite

by Paul J. Griffiths

In these lectures, Griffiths seeks to develop a theology of intellectual appetite. He helps us see that our desire for knowledge is all too often informed by a distorted will that seeks to be in position of ownership over and control of that which we claim to know. By way of alternative, he draws on Augustine and others in order to sketch out a vision of knowledge as gift and a corresponding account of skills whose cultivation would enable meaningful...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1532657374
• ISBN13: 9781532657375
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Length: 106 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.6" x 7.4"