Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• MacSwain, Robert

Titel

Austin Farrer’s Shaping Spirit of Imagination [2006]

Ist Teil von

• Scripture, Metaphysics, and Poetry, 2013, p.207-222

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• It requires little justification to discuss the thought of arguably the greatest English theologian of the twentieth century, Austin Farrer. Yet Farrer is in many respects an enigmatic and elusive writer. He belonged to no clearly defined school of theology and did not found one. His elegant and sometimes epigrammatic prose does not flinch from real puzzles and apparent paradoxes. Farrer relentlessly fuses poetry, metaphysics and Scripture in his theology, brooding on images and ideas – often arguing in imaginary dialogues. A writer of great spiritual depth, his intellect is decisive and acute, fertile and suggestive. This chapter will consider Farrer from two perspectives. First, it considers the fertility of Farrer’s intellectual legacy through the prism of Basil Mitchell’s philosophy of religion, focusing on Mitchell’s unjustly neglected Faith and Criticism.1 Second, it explores the profundity of Farrer’s thought in the light of the English Romantic inheritance.2