Word: vidler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alexander Roper Vidler, 64. A goateed, beekeeping bachelor, Vidler is dean of King's College. As editor of both Theology and Soundings, he regards himself as the "midwife" of much of the new Cambridge thought. His specialty is ecclesiastical history, and Vidler is a trenchant critic of the "legalisms" and archaic institutions that have be come fossilized within the Church of England. He believes that most Anglican theologians have been "lethargic, dealing with secondary questions." To him, the merit of Cambridge theology is that, right or wrong, it has attempted to tackle basic issues concerning church, faith...
...search for meaningful forms of worship has gone in company with a search for meaningful faith. A current debate among Anglicans concerns the merits of the radical interpretations of Christian doctrine proposed by theologians known as "the Cambridge group" -principally Alec Vidler, Harry Williams and Hugh Montefiore. One of England's bestsellers of the year (280,000 copies) is Bishop John Robinson's Honest to God, which attacks the "religiousness" of Christianity and rejects the idea of God as a transcendent Being somewhere "out there" in space. Rectors who promise a sermon on Honest...