Borderlands of Theology

Donald MacKinnon (1913 - 1994) was a Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Kebble College, Oxford, and Regius Professor of Moral Philosophy at Aberdeen for thirteen years. He was also Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity at Cambridge and Fellow of Corpus Christi College from 1960.

1. "It is one of the merits of these essays that, though they bear heavily on all the contemporary theological debates, they cut right through all the nonsense and jargon of the schools and disclose some of the depth of the real issues at stake." - A. D. Galloway in Religious Studies, Vol. 5, No.1, October, 1969, pp. 115-119. Published by the Cambridge University Press.2. "It is impossible to summarize adequately a book which is so wide-ranging and sceptical (in the deepest sense). It may perhaps convey to those not fortunate enough to have been his pupils Professor MacKinnon's qualities as a teacher." - Hugo Meynell in New Blackfriars, June 1969, Vol. 50, No. 589, p. 499. Published by Wiley.

• Editors' IntroductionAcknowledgementAuthor's Introductory EssayPart I Theology and Philosophy of Religion1. Borderlands of Theology2. Philosophy and Christology3. Our Contemporary Christ4. Order and Evil in the Gospel5. Atonement and Tragedy6. Scott Holland and Contemporary Needs7. Some Notes on KierkegaardPart II Ethics, Politics and Philosophy of History1. Things and Persons2. Justice3. On the Notion of a Philosophy of History4. R. G. Collingwood as a Philosopher5. An Approach to the Moral and Spiritual Problems of the Nuclear Age6. Reflections on the Hydrogen Bomb7. Ethical Problems of Nuclear WarfarePart III Metaphysics and Epistemology1. Metaphysical and Religious Language2. John Wisdom's Paradox and Discovery3. Verifiability4. P.F. Strawson's The Bounds of Sense