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Is There a New God?
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Item Title Is There a New God?
Guest Robinson, John A. T. (John Arthur Thomas) (1919-1983)
Host Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925-2008)
Date CreatedOctober 06, 1967
Description

Many of Bishop Robinson's fellow Anglicans would subscribe to WFB's assertion that "if this were an age in which it was fashionable to go after heresy, I would be addressing tonight the former Bishop of Woolwich," although it would be hard to either substantiate or refute that assertion on the basis of this exchange, in which His Grace is relentlessly bland and benevolent. JATR: "Christians like myself ... feel in their bones that so much of this traditional language is not wrong if it makes God real for people, well and good, but for a good many it makes him remote and unreal. It's not basically any new scientific discovery but simply catching up on the fact that the traditional set of answers is rather like the set of answers that you got in medieval Christianity, which no longer corresponded to questions people were really asking."

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Country of Origin
Place RecordedLondon, England, United Kingdom
DimensionsDuration: 50 minutes
FormatText
Medium television programs
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Color
color
Soundtrack
sound
Hoover IDProgram 072
Record Number80040.72
NotesVideo available through special order.
RightsCopyright held by Stanford University. This copy is provided for educational and research purposes only. No publication, further reproduction, or reuse of copies, beyond fair use, may be made without the express written permission of the Hoover Institution Library & Archives on behalf of Stanford University.

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