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Alexander Roper "Alec" Vidler OGS (1899–1991) was a noted English Anglican priest, theologian and church historian. == Biography == Vidler was born in Rye, Sussex, the son of Leopold Amon Vidler who had recently married Edith Hamilton Roper and attended Sutton Valence School. During World War I he worked in a family business, and served briefly in the British Army. He was then an undergraduate at Selwyn College, Cambridge, and attended Wells Theological College and the Oratory House, Cambridge.〔Trevor Beeson, ''Priests And Prelates: The Daily Telegraph Clerical Obituaries'' (2006), pp. 7–8.〕 Initially, after his ordination, he was a curate in a poor parish in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He was then a curate and acting parish priest in Birmingham;〔Geoffrey Rowell, Kenneth Stevenson, Rowan Williams, ''Love's Redeeming Work: The Anglican Quest for Holiness'' (2003), p. 641.〕 he was one of the Anglo-Catholic clergy setting up a confrontation with the bishop, Ernest William Barnes, centred on the parish of Small Heath.〔http://www.quodlibet.net/articles/bishop-barnes.shtml〕 In 1938 Vidler became editor of ''Theology'' and librarian at Hawarden.〔http://anglicanhistory.org/misc/ogs.html〕 There he was promoted to Warden of St Deiniol's Library, and encouraged Gordon Dunstan who was in a junior position, before becoming Canon of St. George's Chapel, Windsor. During World War II he was one of the regular participants in J. H. Oldham's discussion group, "The Moot".〔Stefan Collini, ''Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain'' (2006), p. 317.〕 In 1946 he published with Walter Alexander Whitehouse ''Natural Law: A Christian re-consideration'' based on ecumenical meetings at St Deiniol's Library including Hans Ehrenberg, Hubert Cunliffe-Jones, Richard Kelwe, Gerhard Leibholz,〔:de:Gerhard Leibholz〕 Philip Mairet, Richard O'Sullivan K.C., and Victor White.〔http://ext.sagepub.com/cgi/pdf_extract/57/9/225〕 Later he taught at the University of Cambridge, where in 1956 he succeeded Ivor Ramsay as Dean of King's College, later supervising the doctorate of David Nicholls.〔http://www.littlemorechurch.org/littlemore-dntimesobit.html〕 He retired in 1966 to his house in Rye, where he wrote his autobiography and served as Mayor of Rye. He died in July 1991.〔http://www.ryeandbattleobserver.co.uk/news/local/bid-to-name-a-road-after-famous-ryer-alec-vidler-1-6043481〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alec Vidler」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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