Re: [asa] Nothing Buttery

PS: I guess you already checked Google - if so, you'll notice the same thing I did: lot's of ascriptions to CS Lewis, but no citations.

I'd suggest that the belief that Lewis coined the phrase is an urban legend.

Blessings again...
MH

Murray Hogg wrote:
> Hi Randy,
>
>> From page 11 of Rodney D. Holder, "Nothing But Atoms and Molecules"
>> (Tunbridge Wells, UK: Monarch 1993);
>
> <cite>
> In a small book called "The Clockwork Image" published in 1974 Professor
> Donald Mackay claimed to have coined the term 'nothing-buttery' some 25
> years earlier.
> </cite>
>
> Ref: Donald M. Mackay, "The Clockwork Image: A Christian Perspective on
> Science" (London: IVP, 1974).
>
> Hope it helps,
>
> Blessings,
> Murray
>
> Randy Isaac wrote:
>> Can any of you help me track down the origin of the term "Nothing
>> Buttery"? I always thought it came from Donal MacKay and George
>> Marsden seems to imply the same in his book "The Outrageous Idea of
>> Christian Scholarship" on page 75. But someone else with whom I am
>> working claims that CS Lewis coined that term. I don't know of a
>> reference for that. Do any of you know whether this should be properly
>> attributed to Lewis rather than MacKay? Or someone else?
>>
>> Thanks for your help.
>>
>> Randy
>
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Received on Thu Jul 9 16:56:32 2009