LIBROS DEL AUTOR: austin farrer

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  • Interpretation and Belief
    Austin Farrer
    Austin Farrer’s writings show amazing originality and independence of thought. To the end of his life he was developing a Christian apologetic that was both thoroughly orthodox and thoroughly contemporary. Interpretation and Belief is a collection of essays grouped round three themes--Canon, Creed, and Criteria--presenting Farrer’s thoughts on the foundations of Christian belie...
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    26,64 €

  • Words for Life
    Austin Farrer
    Previously unpublished, the forty sermons collected here were preached by Austin Farrer during his twenty-five years as chaplain of Trinity College, Oxford (1935-60). Most of them were short biblical addresses given during Evensong, and they are offered here for Farrer devotees, and for a new generation of readers to savor. ...
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    18,87 €

  • The Brink of Mystery
    Austin Farrer
    Austin Farrer in his later years was striving for new depths of simplicity and insight. This collection of Farrer sermons, preached mainly to undergraduate audiences, is the third to be published since his death. Even readers who never heard him speak can form from the printed text a true impression of his qualities of imagination, humor, and spirituality. For preachers he not ...
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    23,16 €

  • Reflective Faith
    Austin Farrer
    In the foreword to this collection of essays, the noted British philosopher of religion John Hick aptly describes the style and tone to be found in Reflective Faith.''Farrer asks . . . the right questions and thereby puts philosophical theology on the right road. This collection constitutes an introduction to Farrer’s thought such as many have wished for; and it will be importa...
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    30,21 €

  • The End of Man
    Austin Farrer
    ''Published sermons present a special problem,'' writes John Austin Baker in his introduction to The End of Man. ''Sermons no one would think of printing have saved souls; sermons much admired by posterity may have achieved nothing . . .. What is rare indeed is that the text of a genuine sermon as actually delivered should satisfy the criteria of the literary form as well. To t...
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    24,06 €

  • The Truth-Seeking Heart
    Austin Marsden Farrer
    Austin Farrer was part of the extraordinary mid-20th century group of ’Oxford Christians’, which also included C S Lewis, J R R Tolkien, Charles Williams and Dorothy Sayers. Described as ’the one genius that the Church of England produced’ in the last century and ’author of incomparably the most interesting theological books ever to come out of Oxford’, his great legacy is that...
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    40,34 €