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Presumably those who profess and call themselves Christians believe their religion to be in some sense true; but in what sense?... The truth of the Christian faith is the truth of a faith, or a way of life which shows itself true... for those who live it.

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The philosopher is not an apologist; apologetic concern, as Karl Barth (the one living theologian of unquestionable genius) has rightly insisted, is the death of serious theologizing, and I would add, equally of serious work in the philosophy of religion.

Donald M. MacKinnon

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Donald M. MacKinnon

Donald M. MacKinnon

Born: August 27, 1913
Died: March 2, 1994 (aged 80)
Bio: Donald Mackenzie MacKinnon was a Scottish philosopher and theologian.
Known for:
  1. Education in the UK: Facts & Figures
  2. The Problem of Metaphysics (1974)
  3. Donald MacKinnon (1979)

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