Metaphysical Personalism An Analysis of Austin Farrer's Metaphysics of Theism [Hardcover]

How can we, or should we, talk about God? What concepts are involved in the concept of a Supreme Being? This book is about the search to reconcile modern metaphysics with traditional theism--focusing on the seminal work of Austin Farrer who was Warden of Keble College, Oxford until his death in 1968, and one of the most original and important philosophers of religion of this century. Conti traces the evolution of Ferrar's thought and shows why he preferred a personalist approach over Aristotle's metaphysics of being.

Those of us who are already charmed by Farrer's work (his scholarly writing or superb homilies) will welcome this volume. --The Journal of Religion

Lucid and valuable work --Religious Studies Review

...Conti provides us not only a clear, well-argued defense of personalist metaphysics but also insight into central currents in mid-century thinking in philosophical theology....[His] analysis of and arguments for personalism moves him to the forefront of late twentieth-century personalists. --TheReview of Metaphysics