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Mythic Thinking in Twentieth-Century Britain: Meaning for ...

Mythic Thinking in Twentieth-Century Britain: Meaning for ...

M. Sterenberg

But it was appropriate that when this renaissance of liberal British theology arrived, it was initiated by a theologian, Alec Vidler, who had been influenced and inspired by what he termed the “post-neo-orthodoxy” of Bultmann.13 Alec Vidler, the ...
The Penguin History of the Church: The Church in an Age of ...

The Penguin History of the Church: The Church in an Age of ...

Alec Vidler

In this masterly appraisal of a doubt-ridden and turbulent period in Christianity Alec Vidler concludes with a discussion of the position of the Church in modern times and expertly answers the question: 'Has the Church stood up to the Age ...
The Theology of F. D. Maurice

The Theology of F. D. Maurice

Alec Vidler

An examination of the work of 19th-century English Christian socialist and theologian F.D. Maurice.
Barth Reception in Britain

Barth Reception in Britain

D. Densil Morgan

Alec Vidler, editor of Theology, dean of King's College and formerly a devotee of Reinhold Niebuhr and neo-orthodoxy (though never, explicitly, of Barth), was moving away from the hard-won consensus of the decades before. Since having  ...
The Canons: Cathedral Close Encounters

The Canons: Cathedral Close Encounters

Trevor Beeson

19 The Sceptical Believer Alec Vidler, Windsor An innocent television viewer in the early 1960s who tuned in to a religious programme in the expectation of a broadcast interview with the traditional sort of Anglican scholar - the first in a Sunday ...
Cambridge Theology in the Nineteenth Century: Enquiry, ...

Cambridge Theology in the Nineteenth Century: Enquiry, ...

David Michael Thompson

In 1962 the Faculty Board decided to run a course entitled, 'Objections to Christian Belief', with lectures by Professor Donald Mackinnon. Harry Williams, Dr Alec Vidler and J.S. Bezzant. They were given in February 1963 in the depths of the ...
C.S. Lewis--The Work of Christ Revealed

C.S. Lewis--The Work of Christ Revealed

P. H. Brazier

Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism This approach was also to be found in the work of Alec Vidler, who dismissed the miracle at Cana (John 2:1–11) as a sign in an essay in a volume published in the late 1950s which Lewis knew and ...
The Moot Papers: Faith, Freedom and Society 1938-1944

The Moot Papers: Faith, Freedom and Society 1938-1944

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Alec Vidler suggested the analogy of Oratory House, Cambridge,36 where it was a rule that the Oratory had no authority over the individual, but in the event of a member of the Oratory changing his job he was bound to consult the central body  ...
Theologia et Apologia: Essays in Reformation Theology and ...

Theologia et Apologia: Essays in Reformation Theology and ...

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The Occasion of the Essay As Lewis tells the story, once during an after dinner conversation with the Principal of Westcott House in Cambridge, he saw a book by Alec Vidler lying on the table. Lewis told the Principal in no uncertain terms what ...
The Modernist Movement in the Roman Church

The Modernist Movement in the Roman Church

Alec R. Vidler

The conversion to the Roman Church of Friedrich Leopold Stolberg (1750—1819 ) and of Friedrich von Schlegel (1772I 829) had an influence which was the counterpart of Chateaubriand's in France. Stolberg, Schlegel and their followers ...
Sir Alec Douglas-Home

Sir Alec Douglas-Home

Kenneth Young

Sir Alec Douglas-Home, the most widely respected and trusted of living British statesmen, is the subject of this important and revealing biography, written with Sir Alec's close cooperation, and based in part on long conversations between ...
Alec Ross' the Industries of the Future Summary

Alec Ross' the Industries of the Future Summary

Ant Hive Media

This is a Summary of Alec Ross' The Industries of the Future Leading innovation expert Alec Ross explains what's next for the world: the advances and stumbling blocks that will emerge in the next ten years, and how we can navigate them.
Worship and the Parish Church in Early Modern Britain

Worship and the Parish Church in Early Modern Britain

Alec Ryrie

Alec Ryrie, Professor of the History of Christianity Alec Ryrie Natalie Mears. First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing Published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX144RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY ...
The Age of Reformation: The Tudor and Stewart Realms 1485-1603

The Age of Reformation: The Tudor and Stewart Realms 1485-1603

Alec Ryrie

In this book, Alec Ryrie provides an authoritative overview of the religious and political reformations of the sixteenth century.
The Seduction of Alec Caldwell: Erotic Adventures of a Young ...

The Seduction of Alec Caldwell: Erotic Adventures of a Young ...

Casey K. Cox

Alec Caldwell is a successful investment manager, but behind closed office doors he's also a sex toy for his wealthy clients.
The Claiming of Alec Caldwell

The Claiming of Alec Caldwell

Casey K. Cox

This breathtakingly sexy new installment in the Alec Caldwell series is required reading for all fans of Fifty Shades of Grey.""
Right of the Dial: The Rise of Clear Channel and the Fall of ...

Right of the Dial: The Rise of Clear Channel and the Fall of ...

Alec Foege

In Right of the Dial, Alec Foege explores how the mammoth media conglomerate evolved from a local radio broadcasting operation, founded in 1972, into one of the biggest, most profitable, and most polarizing corporations in the country.
The Sorcerer's Tale: Faith and Fraud in Tudor England

The Sorcerer's Tale: Faith and Fraud in Tudor England

Alec Ryrie

This is the world of Gregory Wisdom, a physician, magician, and consummate con-man at work in sixteenth-century London. In this book, Alec Ryrie uses previously unknown documents to reconstruct this extraordinary man's career.
Translating Institutions: An Ethnographic Study of EU ...

Translating Institutions: An Ethnographic Study of EU ...

Kaisa Koskinen

McHoul, Alec and Mark Rapley (2001) 'Preface: with a little help from our friends', in Alec McHoul and Mark Rapley (eds) How to Analyse Talk in Institutional Settings. A Casebook of Methods, London and New York: Continuum, xi-xiv. Merton ...
Being Protestant in Reformation Britain

Being Protestant in Reformation Britain

Alec Ryrie

... 2004) Cooper, Trevor, '“As wise as serpents”: the form and setting of public worship at Little Gidding in the 1630s' in Natalie Mears and Alec Ryrie (eds), Worship and the Parish Church in Early Modern Britain (Aldershot, 2012) Craig, John, ...
Alone on the Soaks: The Life and Times of Alec Kruger

Alone on the Soaks: The Life and Times of Alec Kruger

Alec Kruger

... Darwin 1985 Jack Gibbs Son of Jimmy, Historical Society of NT, Darwin 1995 Nathalie Gorey The Alice: A Story of the Town and District of Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Alice Springs Branch Country Women's Association SA, 1960 Jenny ...
Differentiated Integration: Explaining Variation in the ...

Differentiated Integration: Explaining Variation in the ...

Dirk Leuffen

Stone Sweet, Alec, Neill Fligstein and Wayne Sandholtz (2001) 'The Institutionalization of European Space', in The Institutionalization of Europe, ed. Alec Stone Sweet, Wayne Sandholtz and Neill Fligstein. Oxford: Oxford University Press: ...
Architecture and the Welfare State

Architecture and the Welfare State

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1 2 3 4 5 Notes C. Quiring, W. Voigt, P. C. Schmal and E. Herrel, Ernst May 1886– 1970, München: Prestel, 2011; A. Vidler, ... See C. Greig Crysler, S. Cairns and H. Heynen, The Sage Handbook of Architectural Theory, London: Sage, 2012.

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