re Austin Farrer:
He went to St Paul's School in London where[citation needed] he gained a scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford.[2] Encouraged by his father to value scholarship,[citation needed] he nevertheless found the divisions within the Baptist church dispiriting,[15] and while at Oxford he became an Anglican.[16] Finding his spiritual home at St Barnabas Church in Oxford, his theology and his spirituality became profoundly Anglo-Catholic, although centred on the Book of Common Prayer. After gaining a first in greats,[citation needed] he went up to Cuddesdon Theological College where he trained alongside the future Archbishop of Canterbury, Michael Ramsey.[17]
Austin Farrer is an interesting and somewhat anomalous thinker. He was a Protestant, sorry Anglo-Catholic, Thomist. Eric Mascall was another and he refers frequently in his book Existence and Analogy to Farrer’s Finite and Infinite. The latter is an attempt to justify the rational proofs of the existence of God. Depending on my personal metaphysical weather I am in and out on that. Beginning it last night I was struck by its briskness combined with a flurry of sidebars.
Later.
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