Download e-book for kindle: Scripture, Metaphysics, and Poetry: Austin Farrer's The by Robert MacSwain

This publication deals a severe variation of arguably the best paintings of English theology within the twentieth century: Austin Farrer's Bampton Lectures released because the Glass of imaginative and prescient in 1948. Farrer used to be an interdisciplinary genius who made unique contributions to philosophy, theology, and bible study, in addition to to our knowing of the function of mind's eye in human idea and Christian doctrine. in line with Farrer, the 3 basic topics of those lectures are 'scripture, metaphysics, and poetry,' separately and relating to one another. The lectures shield his well-known thought of divine revelation via pictures instead of propositions or occasions, a provocative account of where of metaphysical reasoning in theology, and a literary method of the Biblical textual content that used to be many years sooner than its time and remains to be arguable. The Glass of imaginative and prescient has generated a wealthy and engaging interdisciplinary dialog that has lasted for many years, beginning with commentators similar to Helen Gardner and Frank Kermode. as well as Farrer's complete textual content, this serious version additionally comprises an creation to the importance and context of Farrer's idea, and a variety of thirty-years' worthy of remark by way of major British and eu theologians and literary students: David Brown, Ingolf Dalferth, Hans Haugh, Douglas Hedley, David Jasper, and Gerard Loughlin. Of curiosity to literary and biblical students, theologians, and philosophers, this ebook holds specific worth for these exploring the character of mind's eye in modern suggestion and scholarship.