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C . S . L E W I S ,
DISCOUNT FOR CLERGY & STUDENTS
with Michael Christensen
On 11th May 1959, C. S. Lewis gave a talk on modern theology and biblical criticism in response to a
sermon by the Dean of King’s College Chapel and former Warden of Gladstone’s Library, Alec Vidler.
The Dean’s sermon was entitled ‘The Sign at Cana’ in which he lifted up the spiritual significance of
Jesus’s wedding miracle of turning water into wine, and called for a demythologised Christianity for
modern times. In a similar debate, Anglican Bishop John A. T. Robinson gave an interview about his
new book which questioned the traditional image of God as a supernatural Person. Lewis
responded a week later with an editorial in which he rejected the liberal Bishop’s assumptions about
what ordinary people believe, his disallowance of the supernatural, and his ‘higher criticism’ of
Scripture.
60 years after these theological controversies in Cambridge occurred, liberal/
progressive and conservative/evangelical Christians still argue about modern
(and postmodern) theology, the meaning of miracles, literary genre, and how
to interpret the Bible beyond a strict literalism. This course casts new light on
old debates and explores C.S. Lewis’s views about the inspiration of scripture,
the nature of revelation, and the question of inerrancy for Christianity today.
£ 2 3 5Fri 26th - Sun 28th
J U L£ 1 6 0RESIDENTIAL FROM NON-RESIDENTIAL
J O H N R O B I N S O N A N D A L E C V I D L E R O N M O D E R N T H E O L O G Y , S U P E R N A T U R A L M I R A C L E S A N D T H E B I B L E
P R O G R A M M E
Fri 26th
J U LY 6pm Welcome to Gladstone’s Library
8pm ‘The Sign of Cana’ Sermon by Alec Vidler
Sat 27th
J U LY 10am The Debate at Wescott House, Cambridge11am Coffee
11.30am The Missing Letter on Scripture in Letters to Malcolm, Chiefly on Prayer by C.S. Lewis (recently found)1.30pm Free afternoon
4pm Tea
4.30pm Bishop John Robinson and the ‘Apostate Bishop’ in The Great Divorce8pm Film TBC
Sun 28th
J U LY 10am C.S. Lewis on Scripture - A New Work in Progress11am Coffee
11.30am Vilder, Robinson and Lewis as Brothers
D I N I N G :8 A M - 9 A M B R E A K F A S T | 6 . 3 0 P M D I N N E R | 1 2 . 3 0 P M L U N C H
Background texts:
‘Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism’ (C.S. Lewis in
Christian Reflections, Walter Hooper, ed.)
‘The Sign of Cana’ (Alec Vidler in Winsor Sermons, 1959)
‘Our Image of God Must Go’ (Bishop John Robinson in the
Observer, 1963)
Honest to God (John T. Robinson)
Letters to Malcolm Chiefly on Prayer (C.S. Lewis, 1963)