Re: [asa] Nothing Buttery

It's perhaps worth commenting further on Murray's statement that MacKay
"claimed to have coined the term." On p.43 he says "[T]he fallacy
underlying such arguments is sufficiently pernicious and widespread to
deserve an appropriately rude name, and some twenty-five years ago I
christened it 'nothing buttery.'" Since the original printing of the book
was in 1974, MacKay must have introduced the term around 1949. ("Around"
because of the qualification "some" 25 years ago.) So use by Lewis or
anytone else would have to be before that to have priority (assuming, of
course, that MacKay remembered correctly).

Shalom
George
http://home.roadrunner.com/~scitheologyglm

----- Original Message -----
From: "Murray Hogg" <muzhogg@netspace.net.au>
To: "ASA" <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 4:39 PM
Subject: Re: [asa] Nothing Buttery

> 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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