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Soundings

Soundings

Soundings

Essays Concerning Christian Understanding
A.R. Vidler
January 1966
Paperback
9780521093736

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    Soundings made by a group imply two assumptions: first, that every one is in the same ship; and secondly, that there is a bottom to the sea. The group of Anglican theologians gathered by Dr Vidler for this 1962 text writes from a conviction that there is a dangerous complacency in the religious world. Fundamental and perplexing questions are not being faced, nor is the difficulty of meeting them candidly acknowledged. The writers of these essays provoke thought and reflection, not to propound a new system of orthodoxy. They deal with the philosophical, scientific, psychological and ethical implications of Christian belief and practice, as well as with directly theological questions. They have not been able to persuade themselves that the time is ripe for major works of theological construction. their object is to fix attention on some of the principal subjects of debate which they believe should be engaging minds.

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    January 1966
    Paperback
    9780521093736
    284 pages
    216 × 140 × 16 mm
    0.36kg
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    Table of Contents

    • Introduction Alexander Roper Vidler
    • 1. Beginning all over again Howard Eugene Root
    • 2. The uneasy truce between science and theology John Stapylton Habgood
    • 3. The idea of the transcendent George Frederick Woods
    • 4. Theology and self-awareness Harry Abbott Williams
    • 5. The relation between Christianity and the other great religions Roderick Ninian Smart
    • 6. The meaning and authority of the new testament with an appended note on 'authority' and 'liberty' in the church Joseph Newbould Sanders and A.R. Vidler
    • 7. Towards a Christology for today Hugh William Montefiore
    • 8. The atonement: law and love Geoffrey William Hugo Lampe
    • 9. The grounds of Christian moral judgements G. G. Woods
    • 10. Christian prayer John Burnaby
    • 11. Religion and the National Church A. R. Vidler
    • Index.
      Contributors
    • Alexander Roper Vidler, Howard Eugene Root, John Stapylton Habgood, George Frederick Woods, Harry Abbott Williams, Roderick Ninian Smart, Joseph Newbould Sanders, Hugh William Montefiore, Geoffrey William Hugo Lampe, G. G. Woods, John Burnaby

    • Editor
    • A.R. Vidler