Austin Farrer for Today

Richard Harries is the former Bishop of Oxford, and served as Gresham Professor of Divinity between 2008 and 2012. He is the author of many books including The Beauty and the Horror (2017) and Haunted by Christ (2018)Stephen Platten is the former Bishop of Wakefield. Recent books include Animating Liturgy.

• Acknowledgements ix List of Contributors xiIntroduction Richard Harries 1Biblical Theology1. Austin Farrer and Typology 13 John Barton 2. Farrer on Q 24 Mark Goodacre 3. Farrer on Paul 37 Jennifer R. StrawbridgePhilosophy4. Farrer’s Relevance for Contemporary Philosophical Theology 53 Margaret Yee 5. Providence and the Problem of Evil in Farrer’s Love Almighty and Ills Unlimited 70 Leigh Vicens 6. ‘The Evidence of Faith’: Austin Farrer, Diogenes Allen and Reformed Epistemology 84 Robert MacSwain 7. Farrer’s Theism: Finite and Infinite 98 Paul DeHartLanguage and Symbolism8. Through a Glass? Farrer, Coleridge and Revelation 113 Stephen Platten 9. Language and Symbolism: Austin Farrer Meets Gregory of Nazianzus 127 Morwenna LudlowDoctrine10. ‘A Society of Two’? Austin Farrer on the Trinity 141 Rowan Williams 11. Farrer on the Atonement 154 Richard Harries 12. Theosis, Godmanhood and Double Agency: Berdyaev, Farrer and the Divine-Human Relationship 164 Gregory PlattenPrayer and Preaching13. Farrer, the Oxford Preacher 183 Jane Shaw 14. Until Their Hunger Is Their Mind: Farrer’s Theology of the Eucharist 196 Jeffrey VogelFarrer and the FutureA Prophetic Influence: Concluding Reflections 209 Stephen PlattenBibliography of Works by or Related to Austin Farrer 219 Author Index 236 Subject Index 239