1st Edition

Scripture, Metaphysics, and Poetry Austin Farrer's The Glass of Vision With Critical Commentary

Edited By Robert MacSwain Copyright 2013
234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

This book offers a critical edition of arguably the greatest work of English theology in the 20th century: Austin Farrer's Bampton Lectures published as The Glass of Vision in 1948. Farrer was an interdisciplinary genius who made original contributions to philosophy, theology, and biblical studies, as well as to our understanding of the role of imagination in human thought and Christian doctrine.... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction: 'The form of divine truth in the human mind', Robert MacSwain; Part I Austin Farrer, The Glass of Vision : Bampton Lectures for 1948, Austin Farrer; Chapter 2 Preface; Chapter I The Supernatural and the Natural; Chapter II The Supernatural and the Weird; Chapter III Images and Inspiration; Chapter IV The Metaphysician's Image; Chapter V The Rational Theologian's Analogy; Chapter VI Archetypes and Incarnation; Chapter VII Prophecy and Poetry; Chapter VIII The Poetry of the New Testament; Part II Commentary; Chapter 1a Metaphysical Philosophy, Scriptural Revelation and Poetry, 1985], David Jasper; Chapter 2a God and Symbolic Action, 1990], David Brown; Chapter 3 The Stuff of Revelation: Austin Farrer's Doctrine of Inspired Images, 1992], Ingolf Dalferth; Chapter 4 Making it Plain: Austin Farrer and the Inspiration of Scripture, 1992], Gerard Loughlin; Chapter 5 The Sin of Reading: Austin Farrer, Helen Gardner and Frank Kermode on the Poetry of St Mark, 1992], Hans Hauge; Chapter 6 Austin Farrer's Shaping Spirit of Imagination, 2006], Douglas Hedley;

Biography

Robert MacSwain is Assistant Professor of Theology and Christian Ethics, The School of Theology, The University of the South, Sewanee, TN, USA. The author of Solved by Sacrifice: Austin Farrer, Fideism, and the Evidence of Faith (Peeters, 2013), he has also co-edited four previous volumes: with Jeffrey Stout, Grammar and Grace: Reformulations of Aquinas and Wittgenstein (SCM Press, 2004); with Ann Loades, The Truth-Seeking Heart: Austin Farrer and His Writings (Canterbury Press, 2006); with Michael Ward,The Cambridge Companion to C. S. Lewis (Cambridge University Press, 2010); and with Taylor Worley, Theology, Aesthetics, and Culture: Responses to the Work of David Brown (Oxford University Press, 2012).

’Theological readers owe MacSwain and his contributors a great debt for renewing our careful attention to Austin Farrer's The Glass of Vision. A fresh generation of scholars stands to benefit immeasurably by learning from Farrer's deep, catholic imagination. These lectures, and the whole of Farrer's work, display his standing as a nonpareil reader of Scripture and the Anglican Christian tradition.' A.K.M. Adam, St Stephen's House, Oxford University, UK