The Philosophical Frontiers of Christian Theology: Essays presented to D.M. Mackinnon

by Edited by Brian Hebblethwaite , Stewart Sutherland

• ISBN13: 9780521109680
• ISBN10: 052110968X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-04-30
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

One of the 'borderlands' of theology is the area in which it concerns overlap with those of philosophy. This book charts some of the frontiers that are of most concern in contemporary discussion. Beginning with a study of ontology in the New Testament, it proceeds to consider the borderlands between theology and philosophy from different standpoints in four main groups: the apostolic and patristic age, Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment thought, morality and ethics and, finally, contemporary reflection about meaning and truth. This distinguished collection of essays has been produced to honour Donald McKinnon, who retired from the Norris-Hulse Professorship of Divinity in the University of Cambridge in 1978, a bibliography of whose published writings is included in the volume.

Table of Contents

Preface

Athens and Jerusalem

the borderlands of ontology in the New Testament

Athens and Jerusalem: joint witnesses to Christ?

The concept of Mind and the concept of God in the Christian Fathers

Theological Enquiry after Kant

Kant and the negative theology

Ideology, metaphor and analogy

Theological study: the nineteenth century and after

Theological study: the nineteenth century and after

Metaphysics and Morality

Optimism, finitude and the meaning of life

Practical necessity

Religion, ethics and action

Truth and Falsehood in Theology

Theological realism

Notes on analogical predication and speaking about God

'True' and 'false' in Christology

Donald MacKinnon's published writings 1937-1980 compiled

Index

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