Beyond Realism: Seeking the Divine Other: A Study in Applied Metaphysics Contributor(s): Smith, Simon (Author) |
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ISBN: 162273341X ISBN-13: 9781622733415 Publisher: Vernon Press OUR PRICE: $65.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2018 |
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BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Metaphysics - Philosophy | Religious |
Series: Series in Philosophy |
Physical Information: 0.72" H x 6" W x 9" (1.01 lbs) 344 pages |
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Publisher Description: The meaning of "God-talk" remains the fundamental issue facing religious thinkers today. This study concerns the analogies needed to make sense of that talk. Embracing those analogies signals the application of Austin Farrer's cutting-edge theology. Almost fifty years after his death, Farrer remains one of the twentieth century's last great metaphysical minds, his grasp of faith and philosophy unequalled. Having defended religious thought against both Positivist and Process reduction, he pursued his own revision of scholastic tradition, ultimately developing the vital corrective to an overweening impersonalism, one which depersonalises the divine so severs the cosmological connection. |
Contributor Bio(s): Smith, Simon: - Simon Smith was awarded a D.Phil. in Philosophy by the University of Sussex in 2007. The philosophical theology of Austin Farrer was, and is, his primary subject matter; personalist metaphysics, his abiding interest. He is now the editor of Appraisal, journal of the British Personalist Forum. He is also co-editor of two volumes of essays on modern personalist thought. The first, with James Beauregard, is In the Sphere of the Personal: New Perspectives in the Philosophy of Persons (Vernon Press, 2016); the second, with Anna Castriota, is Looking at the sun: New Writings in Modern Personalism (Vernon Press, 2017). Having once taught philosophy at the University of Southampton in the UK and the Modern College of Business and Science in Oman, he now lives happily in the library at the University of Surrey, where he scavenges for food among the law periodicals. Buried deep in the Surrey Downs, he occasionally pursues a more perfect alignment of science and religion through the diverse forms of personal analogy at work in modern physics and modern metaphysics. |