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Article: Metaphysical Personalism: An Analysis of Austin Farrer's Metaphysics of Theism.
- Article from:
- The Review of Metaphysics
- Article date:
- June 1, 1997
- Author:
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This analysis of Austin Farrer's philosophical theology joins the distinguished work by contemporary personalists, Embers and the Stars by Erazim Kohak and Being and Value by Frederick Ferre. Conti's work is more than an analysis of Farrer's understanding of the relation of faith and reason, the nature of God, and God's relation to other persons. Through a detailed, rigorous investigation of the changes in Farrer's thought from Finite and Infinite (1943) through Freedom of the Will (1957) to Faith and Speculation (1968), Conti provides us not only a clear, well-argued defense of personalist metaphysics but also insight into central currents in mid-century thinking in ...