Abstract
This paper concerns two names not commonly associated: Austin Farrer and Ludwig Feuerbach. For these two very different thinkers person-concepts offered a metaphysical vision. That vision represents a critical return to religious praxis. Philosophically, the closed categories of scholastic ontology are exchanged for a concrete theory of persons, one that predicates self-hood on social premises. This insight enabled Farrer and Feuerbach to overcome the dualism underpinning classical rationalism. Moreover, by realigning the terms of that dualism within a framework of human action, they returned metaphysics to its origins in the personal images needed to conceive Go