The meaning of "Godtalk" 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 Farrers cuttingedge theology. Almost fifty years after his death, Farrer remains one of the twentieth centurys 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. Following this course returns us to an earlier tradition, to a metaphysic of persons exemplified in the expressions of lived faith. This draws upon the logic of personal identity what it means to be, or rather, to become, a person. Hence, journeys end lies in a Feuerbachian anthropology of theology or anthropotheism. Like Farrer, Feuerbach used the believers language to relocate theology and philosophy within a framework that makes fertile use of anthropomorphic personifications to think God. Revisiting the personalist presuppositions of metaphysics in this way throws light on the most vital questions of personal identity. To answer them is to draw reality on a grander scale than either realism or consequentialism is capable of. Most importantly, it is locate our place within that image. Doing...

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