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Austin Farrer for Today

A Prophetic Agenda

by Richard Harries, Stephen Platten

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: SCM Press
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.5 cm

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For those interested in the work of Austin Farrer

Austin Farrer for Today brings together a stellar collection of writers to reflect on Farrer’s contribution to biblical theology

A comprehensive and eye-opening collection of essays will help you apply Farrer's teaching to today

Dozens of authoritative voices, including Rowan Williams, discuss and debate the impact of Austin Farrer's work and teaching for today's world
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Austin Farrer is often called the one genius the Church of England produced in the 20th Century. His innovative ideas crossed a host of theological disciplines.

Assessing his continuing importance and introducing him to a new generation of readers, Austin Farrer for Today brings together a stellar collection of writers to reflect on Farrer’s contribution to biblical theology, philosophy, language, doctrine, prayer and preaching.

Chapters include:

•Rowan Williams on Farrer as a doctrinal theologian

•Morwenna Ludlow on Farrer's language and symbolism

•Jane Shaw on Farrer as preacher

•John Barton, on typology in Farrer

Austin Farrer for Today and Passions Of The Soul
Passions Of The SoulAustin Farrer for Today

  • Authors

    Richard Harries +2

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    SCM Press

  • Published

    September 2020

  • Weight

    400g

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.5 cm

  • ISBN

    9780334059448

  • ISBN-10

    0334059445

  • Eden Code

    5222793

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Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Introduction Richard Harries

Biblical Theology

1. Austin Farrer and Typology - John Barton

2. Farrer on Q - Mark Goodacre

3. Farrer on Paul - Jennifer R. Strawbridge

Philosophy

4. Farrer’s Relevance for Contemporary Philosophical Theology - Margaret Yee

5. Providence and the Problem of Evil in Farrer’s Love Almighty and Ills Unlimited - Leigh Vicens

6. ‘The Evidence of Faith’: Austin Farrer, Diogenes Allen and Reformed Epistemology - Robert MacSwain

7. Farrer’s Theism: Finite and Infinite - Paul DeHart

Language and Symbolism

8. Through a Glass? Farrer, Coleridge and Revelation - Stephen Platten

9. Language and Symbolism: Austin Farrer Meets Gregory of Nazianzus - Morwenna Ludlow

Doctrine

10. ‘A Society of Two’? Austin Farrer on the Trinity - Rowan Williams

11. Farrer on the Atonement - Richard Harries

12. Theosis, Godmanhood and Double Agency: Berdyaev, Farrer and the Divine-Human Relationship - Gregory Platten

Prayer and Preaching

13. Farrer, the Oxford Preacher - Jane Shaw

14. Until Their Hunger Is Their Mind: Farrer’s Theology of the Eucharist - Jeffrey Vogel

Farrer and the Future

A Prophetic Influence: Concluding Reflections - Stephen Platten

Bibliography of Works by or Related to Austin Farrer

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