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Theology and the Intellectual Endeavour of Mankind

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

W. D. Hudson
W. D. Hudson
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University of Exeter
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At the beginning of his book, Principles of Christian Theology, John Macquarrie says that theology ‘implicitly claims to have its place in the total intellectual endeavour of mankind’. The question I want to discuss is this: in what terms, if any, can that claim be justified?

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Religious Studies , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , March 1985 , pp. 21 - 37
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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page 22 note 1 London, pp. 279–80.

page 22 note 2 De Carni Christi, v.

page 23 note 1 There is a useful collection of Aquinas' texts on analogy at the end of Palmer's, H.Analogy (London, 1973).CrossRefGoogle Scholar see also Ferré, F., Logic, Language and God (London, 1962), chap. VI.Google Scholar

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page 29 note 2 Cf further on this in my ‘What makes religous beliefs religious?’, Religious Studies XIII (1977).

page 30 note 1 ‘Empiricism, semantics and ontology’, in Revue Internationale de Philosophie (Bruxelles, 1950).

page 30 note 2 On Certainty, 315.

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page 31 note 2 Op. cit. 310–17.

page 31 note 3 Op. cit. 23.

page 32 note 1 See The Concept of Mind (London, 1949) and Dilemmas, (Cambridge, 1960).

page 32 note 2 Principia Ethica (Cambridge, 1903), chapter 1.

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page 33 note 3 Cf. On Certainty, 145.

page 33 note 4 See his I and Thou (Berlin, 1933; Edinburgh, 1970).

page 35 note 1 Op. cit. 559.

page 36 note 1 Op. cit. 102.

page 36 note 2 Op. cit. 97.

page 36 note 3 Op. cit. 410.