There should be a common dialogue, a middle ground where people can discuss issues like this as matters of philosophy as well as matters of theology and matters of science. (discovermagazine.com)
JK: At one stage you say that when we speak about Jesus we're speaking about matters of history, and that's a separate issue from matters of philosophy. (religion-online.org)
And before any former minister starts to hold forth about the damaging effects of immigration on the social fabric, we could do with contrition that goes deeper than a new drive to «listen», or fuzzy matters of philosophy. (theguardian.com)