Austin Farrer for Today

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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.

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• Publié par: Hymns Ancient & Modern
• Date de parution: 30 septembre 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780334059462
• Langue: English

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Austin Farrer for Today
A Prophetic Agenda
Edited by
Richard Harries and Stephen Platten





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For all those scholars inspired by Austin Farrer as they build on his remarkable foundations.




Contents
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




Acknowledgements
Any essay collection of this sort requires much work from a host of people. Paramount here is Kay Norman who has helped us with typing, reformatting and organizing the digital files of all the manuscripts. Rob MacSwain has kindly allowed us to use his very thorough bibliography and Mark Goodacre has added to this in the area of biblical studies. Our families have been generous in allowing the editors the time to complete their work and in listening to countless references to Austin Farrer! Thanks too to all contributors for their work amid all else for which they are responsible. Many thanks to Rosslie Platten for her help in the unenviable tasks of producing both subject and author indexes, and thanks as ever to David Shervington and all the team at SCM Press.





List of Contributors
John Barton was Oriel and Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture in the University of Oxford, 1991–2014, and is now a Senior Research Fellow of Campion Hall. He studied Theology at Keble in the 1960s and was one of Austin Farrer’s last students. He wrote his doctoral thesis on the eighth-century prophets under the supervision of John Austin Baker. A Londoner by birth, he lives in Abingdon near Oxford, where he is an honorary assistant priest in the parish of Abingdon-on-Thames. He has written 20 books, the most recent being A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths (2019).
Paul J. DeHart is Professor of Theology at Vanderbilt University, where he has taught since 1997. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, he studied Theology at Yale University and the University of Chicago, where he obtained his PhD. He has published Beyond the Necessary God (1999), The Trial of the Witnesses (2006) and Aquinas and Radical Orthodoxy (2014), along with several journal articles and book chapters. His current research includes projects on incarnation and the historical Jesus, on the theology of divine infinity, and on the tension between Nicene and modern Protestant treatments of the Trinity.
Mark Goodacre is the Frances Hill Fox Professor of Religious Studies at Duke University, North Carolina. He earned his MA, MPhil and DPhil at the University of Oxford. His research interests include the Gospels, the Apocryphal New Testament, and the historical Jesus. Goodacre is the author of four books including The Case Against Q: Studies in Markan Priority and the Synoptic Problem (2002) and Thomas and the Gospels: The Making of an Apocryphal Text (2012). He is well known for creating web resources on the New Testament and Christian origins, including his podcast, the NT Pod. Goodacre has acted as consultant for several TV and radio programmes including The Passion (BBC/HBO, 2008), Finding Jesus (CNN, 2015–17), and Jesus: His Life (2019). Goodacre is currently working on a book on John’s knowledge of the Synoptic Gospels.
Richard Harries , a former Bishop of Oxford (1987–2006), is an Honorary Professor of Theology at King’s College, London. His main focus in recent years has been on the interface of Christian faith and wider culture, most recently in Haunted by Christ: Modern Writers and the Struggle for Faith (2018) and Seeing God in Art: the Christian Faith in 30 Images (2020). He is the author of an anthology of Farrer’s writings, The One Genius: Readings Through the Year with Austin Farrer (1987).
Morwenna Ludlow is Professor of Christian History and Theology at the University of Exeter. She is author of The Early Church (2009), co-editor with Scot Douglass of Reading the Church Fathers (2011) and has written widely on Gregory of Nyssa. Her most recent book is Art, Craft, and Theology in Fourth-Century Christian Authors , published by Oxford University Press (2020). In this she explores the subtle interplay between theology and literary form in early Christianity. She argues that authors like John Chrysostom and the Cappadocians saw themselves as practitioners of a theological literary craft – they were wordsmiths who experimented with literary techniques, working alongside each other like members of a workshop.
Robert MacSwain is Associate Professor of Theology at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. He previously served as the Ramsey Fellow and Chaplain of St Chad’s College, Durham University. A graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary, the University of Edinburgh, and Virginia Theological Seminary, he received his doctorate from the University of St Andrews. The author of Solved by Sacrifice: Austin Farrer, Fideism, and the Evidence of Faith (2013), he has edited or co-edited seven other volumes, including two on Austin Farrer. He is currently writing a monograph on the idea of holy lives as evidence for God.
Gregory Platten is Canon Chancellor of Lichfield Cathedral. Previously he was the Vicar of All Saints, Friern Barnet and Area Dean of Barnet, in the Diocese of London, and Chaplain to Lincoln College, Oxford. While at Lincoln, Gregory completed his DPhil in twentieth-century Russian religious thought, supervised by Professor George Pattison. His current theological focus is on modern doctrine and political ethics.
Stephen Platten taught Theology at Lincoln Theological College, moving later to become the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Secretary for Ecumenical Affairs, then subsequently Dean of Norwich and Bishop of Wakefield. He is the author of a number of books including Augustine’s Legacy , Rebuilding Jerusalem and Animating Liturgy; among the books he has edited is one other in collaboration with Richard Harries, Reinhold Niebuhr and Contemporary Politics: God and Power.
Jane Shaw is Principal of Harris Manchester College, Professor of the History of Religion, and Pro-Vice-Chancellor in the University of Oxford. Formerly, she was Dean for Religious Life and Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University; Dean of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco; and Reader in Church History, and Dean of Divinity and Fellow of New College, in the University of Oxford. She has also served as Canon Theologian of Salisbury Cathedral, where she is now Canon Emerita. Her books include Miracles in Enlightenment England (2006), Octavia, Daughter of God: the Story of a Female Messiah and her Followers (2011), A Practical Christianity (2012) and Pioneers of Modern Spirituality (2018).
Jenn Strawbridge is Associate Professor in New Testament Studies at Oxford and Caird Fellow in Theology at Mansfield College. She is a Wiccamical Prebendary (Honorary Canon Theologian) of Chichester Cathedral and Canon Theologian at Blackburn Cathedral. She is also an Associate Priest at St Andrew’s, Headington. She has published on the letters of Paul in the early church, as well as early Christian inscriptions, teaching, education and doctrine, including her monograph The Pauline