The shared witness of C. S. Lewis and Austin Farrer : friendship, influence, and an Anglican worldview / Philip Irving Mitchell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mitchell, Philip Irving, author.

Contributor:

Charlton Yarnall Fund.

Yarnall Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Farrer, Austin, 1904-1968.

Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963.

Christian philosophy.

Theology.

Friendship.

Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963--Friends and associates.

Lewis, C. S.

Farrer, Austin, 1904-1968--Friends and associates.

Farrer, Austin.

Friends and associates.

Physical Description:

xix, 287 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"C.S. Lewis and Austin Farrer were friends and fellow academics for more than 20 years, sharing both their Anglican faith and similar concerns about their modern world. Lewis, as Christian apologist and popular novelist, and Farrer, as philosophical theologian and college priest, sought to defend a metaphysically thick universe in contrast to the increasingly secular culture all about them. The Shared Witness of C.S. Lewis and Austin Farrer explores a number of areas that demonstrate the ways in which Lewis and Farrer both intersected and influenced each other's thought. Both insisted that myth prepared the heart for a sense of divine glory and even had a place in the Christian scriptures. Farrer and Lewis prized virtue ethics as a key to human character and ethical problem solving, and they explored the relationship of nature and grace. In regard to the problem of evil, the two men shared much but also disagreed how best to account for an all-powerful loving God and a world full of suffering, and both writers were engaged with apocalyptic thinking--not only in Farrer's commentaries and Lewis's fiction but also in essays and sermons that addressed the eternal end and purpose of humanity. Finally, as Philip Irving Mitchell shows, the worldview espoused and explored by Lewis and Farrer still speaks to our contemporary world, a post-secular society in which the super-natural may again be taken seriously"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Modernity

2. Myth

3. Analogy

4. Virtue

5. History

6. Theodicy

7. Apocalypse.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-279) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charlton Yarnall Fund.

ISBN:

9781606354179

1606354175

OCLC:

1197842141

Publisher Number:

99987777124