Borderlands of Theology : And Other Essays

by MacKinnon, Donald; Roberts, George W.; Smucker, Donovan E.

• ISBN13: 9781610975810
• ISBN10: 1610975812
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-09-02
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Pub

Summary

This collection of Professor MacKinnon's writings shows his three preoccupations: philosophical, theological, and ethical. As a philosopher and theologian working in one of the world's great scientific centers, Professor MacKinnon is aware (as he says) "that it is in the laboratories of the molecular biological research unit and in the radio astronomical observatory rather than in the libraries and lecture rooms of the Divinity School that the frontiers of human knowledge are being pushed back." Faced with this challenge Professor MacKinnon's mind is continuously moving on the borderlands between theology and knowledge and is again and again driven to formulate some estimate of the person of Jesus Christ.

Author Biography

Donald MacKinnon (1913-1994) was fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Keble College, Oxford, and for thirteen years was Regius Professor of Moral Philosophy at Aberdeen. From 1960-1978 has was Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity at Cambridge and from 1960-1994 Fellow of Corpus Christi College.

Table of Contents

Editors' Introduction	p. 7
Acknowledgments	p. 19
Author's Introductory Essay	p. 21
Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Borderlands of Theology	p. 41
Philosophy and Christology	p. 55
Our Contemporary Christ	p. 82
Order and Evil in the Gospel	p. 90
Atonement and Tragedy	p. 97
Scott Holland and Contemporary Needs	p. 105
Some Notes on Kierkegaard	p. 121
Ethics, Politics and Philosophy of History
Things and Persons	p. 131
Justice	p. 142
On the Notion of a Philosophy of History	p. 152
R. G. Collingwood as a Philosopher	p. 169
An Approach to the Moral and Spiritual Problems of the Nuclear Age	p. 175
Reflections on the Hydrogen Bomb	p. 184
Ethical Problems of Nuclear Warfare	p. 193
Metaphysics and Epistemology
Metaphysical and Religious Language	p. 207
John Wisdom's Paradox and Discovery	p. 222
Verifiability	p. 232
P. F. Strawson's The Bounds of Sense	p. 249
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