Hibbert Lectures
The Hibbert Lectures (English; Hibbert lectures ) are an annual series of "unsectarian lectures" on theological topics. They are sponsored by the Hibbert Trust , which was founded in 1847 by the Unitarian Robert Hibbert (1769-1849) with the aim of upholding "the unfettered exercise of private judgment in matters of religion" . They are held at irregular intervals in various British universities, often at Harris Manchester College (until 1996: Manchester College ) at the University of Oxford . In recent years the readings have been broadcast by the BBC . The following overview does not claim to be up-to-date or complete
Lecturers (selection)
1878-1894 (First Series)
- 1878 Max Müller : On the Religions of India (inaugural)
- 1879 Peter le Page Renouf : The Religion of the Egyptians
- 1880 Ernest Renan : Lectures on the Influence of the Institutions, Thought And Culture of Rome on Christianity and the Development of the Catholic Church
- 1881 TW Rhys Davids : Indian Buddhism
- 1882 Abraham Kuenen : National Religions and Universal Religion
- 1883 Charles Beard : The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century in its Relation to Modern Thought and Knowledge
- 1884 Albert Réville : The Native Religions of Mexico and Peru
- 1885 Otto Pfleiderer : The Influence of the Apostle Paul on the Development of Christianity
- 1886 John Rhys : Lectures on the origin and growth of religion as illustrated by Celtic heathendom
- 1887 Archibald Sayce : Babylonian Religion
- 1888 Edwin Hatch : Influence of Greek Ideas and Usages Upon the Christian Church
- 1891 Eugene, Count Goblet D'Alviella : Lectures on the Origin and Growth of the Concept of God, as Illustrated by Anthropology and History ISBN 978-0-7661-0207-1
- 1892 Claude Montefiore : The Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Religion of the Ancient Hebrews
- 1893 Charles Barnes Upton : Lectures on the bases of religious belief
- 1894 James Drummond : Via, Veritas, Vita; Christianity in its most simple and intelligible form
1900-1949
- 1906 Franz Cumont : (Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism)
- 1908 William James : A Pluralistic Universe
- 1911 Lewis Richard Farnell : The Higher Aspects of Greek Religion
- 1912 James Hope Moulton : Early Zoroastrianism
- 1913 Josiah Royce : The Problem of Christianity , online edition (volume one)
- 1913 David Samuel Margoliouth : The Early Development of Mohammedanism
- 1914 Herbert A. Giles : Confucianism and Its Rivals
- 1916 Louis de La Vallée-Poussin : The Way to Nirvána: Ancient Buddhism as a Discipline of Salvation
- 1916 Philip H. Wicksteed : The reactions between dogma & philosophy illustrated from the works of S. Thomas Aquinas
- 1919 Joseph Estlin Carpenter : Theism in Medieval India
- 1920 William Ralph Inge : The State, Visible and Invisible
- 1921 James Moffatt : The Approach to the New Testament
- 1922 Lawrence Pearsall Jacks : Religious Perplexities
- 1923 Felix Adler : The Reconstruction of the Spiritual Ideal
- 1924 Lawrence Pearsall Jacks: Human consciousness towards God
- 1925 Francis Greenwood Peabody
- 1927 Willard Learoyd Sperry : The paradox of religion
- 1929 Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan : An Idealist View of Life
- 1930 Rabindranath Tagore : The Religion of Man
- 1931 George Dawes Hicks : The Philosophical Bases of Theism
- 1932 Robert Seymour Conway : Ancient Italy and Modern Religion
- 1933 Lawrence Pearsall Jacks: The Revolt Against Mechanism
- 1934 Albert Schweitzer : Religion in Modern Civilization
- 1936 William Ernest Hocking : Living Religions and a World Faith
- 1937 Gilbert Murray : Liberality and Civilization
- 1946 Henry Dewsbury Alves Major : Civilization and Religious Values
1950-1999
- 1953 Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel : A Century's Changes of Outlook
- 1957 A. Victor Murray : The state and the church in a free society
- 1959 Basil Willey : Darwin And Butler: Two Versions of Evolution
- 1963 James Luther Adams
- 1964 Geoffrey Nuttall , Roger Thomas , Roy Drummond Whitehorn , Harry Lismer Short : The Beginnings of Nonconformity
- 1965 Frederick Hadaway Hilliard : Christianity in education
- 1977 Jonathon Porritt : Bringing Religion Down to Earth
- 1979 Rustum Roy : Experimenting with Truth
- 1984 Ursula King : Voices of Protest - Voice of Promise: Exploring Spirituality for a New Age
- 1985 David Edward Jenkins : The God of Freedom and the Freedom of God
- 1989 Bede Griffiths : Christianity in the Light of the East
2000–
- 2003 James L. Cox : Religion without God: Methodological Agnosticism and the Future of Religious Studies
- 2005 Karen Armstrong and Khalid Hameed : Spirituality and global citizenship
References and footnotes
- ↑ James Wood (ed.): Hibbert Lectures ". The Nuttall Encyclopædia. London and New York: Frederick Warne. (" Unsectarian lectures instituted by the trustees of Robert Hibbert, a West India merchant, devoted to the discussion of unsolved problems in theology . ")
- ↑ ... so well known as a freethinker that when he was invited the Hibbert Lectures at Oxford, the authorities of Balliol College refused the use of a room for the purpose ( infidels.org - accessed October 7, 2019)
Web links
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