Hibbert Lectures

The Hibbert Lectures are an annual series of non-sectarian lectures on theological issues. They are sponsored by the Hibbert Trust, which was founded in 1847 by the Unitarian Robert Hibbert with a goal to uphold "the unfettered exercise of private judgement in matters of religion.". In recent years the lectures have been broadcast by the BBC.

Lecturers (incomplete list)

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 T. W. 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 Reville "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 978-0766102071 ["...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" [http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/joseph_mccabe/dictionary.html] ]
*1892 Claude Montefiore "The Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Religion of the Ancient Hebrews"
*1893 C. B. Upton "Lectures on the bases of religious belief"
*1894 James Drummond "Via, Veritas, Vita; Christianity in its most simple and intelligible form"

1900-1949

*1908 William James "A Pluralistic Universe"
*1911 Lewis Richard Farnell "The Higher Aspects of Greek Religion"
*1912 James H. Moulton "Early Zoroastrianism"
*1913 Josiah Royce "The Problem of Christianity", [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC24921184&id=xNmqlEqyTTsC&pg=RA2-PR35&lpg=RA2-PR35&dq=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 L. 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 J. Estlin Carpenter "Theism in Medieval India"
*1920 William Inge
*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 L. P. Jacks "The Challenge of Life"
*1929 Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan "An Idealist View of Life"
*1930 Rabindranath Tagore "The Religion of Man"
*1931 G. Dawes Hicks "The Philosophical Bases of Theism"
*1932 Robert Seymour Conway "Ancient Italy and Modern Religion"
*1933 L. P. Jacks "The Revolt Against Mechanism"
*1934 Albert Schweitzer
*1936 W. E. Hocking "Living Religions and a World Faith"
*1937 Gilbert Murray "Liberality and Civilisation"

1950-1999

*1959 Basil Willey "Darwin And Butler: Two Versions of Evolution"
*1963 James Luther Adams
*1964 Geoffrey Nuttall, Roger Thomas, R. D. Whitehorn, Harry Lismer Short, "The Beginnings of Nonconformity"
*1965 F. H. Hilliard "Christianity in education"
*1979 Rustum Roy "Experimenting with Truth"

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"

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