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

by Robert MacSwain, Jeremy Begbie, Trevor Hart, Roger Lundin

Overview

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. This critical edition also contains an introduction to the significance and context of Farrer's thought, and a selection of thirty-years' worth of commentary by leading British and European theologians and literary scholars: David Brown, Ingolf Dalferth, Hans Haugh, Douglas Hedley, David Jasper and Gerard Loughlin. Of interest to literary and biblical scholars, theologians, and philosophers, this book holds particular value to those exploring the nature of imagination in contemporary thought and scholarship.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472406644
Publisher:	Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	01/28/2014
Series:	Ashgate Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	17 MB
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About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

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;

Editorial Reviews

’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

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