Bampton Lectures (Columbia University)
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The Bampton Lectures at the University of Columbia are a recurring series of lectures that were established by a bequest of Ada Byron Bampton Tremaine.
List of lecturers and lectures
- (3) 1950 – C. H. DoddC. H. DoddCharles Harold Dodd was a Welsh New Testament scholar and influential Protestant theologian.He is known for promoting "realized eschatology", the belief that Jesus' references to the kingdom of God meant a present reality rather than a future apocalypse.-Life:Dodd was born in Wrexham,...
Gospel and Law: The Relation of Faith and Ethics in Early Christianity - (4) 1951 – Lewis MumfordLewis MumfordLewis Mumford was an American historian, philosopher of technology, and influential literary critic. Particularly noted for his study of cities and urban architecture, he had a broad career as a writer...
Art and Technics - (5) 1952 – James B. Conant Modern Science and Modern Man
- (6) 1953 – Alan GreggAlan GreggAlan Gregg is a New Zealand musician, originally from Palmerston North, now based in London. Originally a keyboard player, Alan has mainly played Bass Guitar in his professional life. After moving to Auckland, New Zealand, Alan was a member of the Dribbling Darts of Love before joining The Mutton...
Challenges to Contemporary Medicine - (7) 1954 – John Baillie The Idea of Revelation in Recent Thought
- (8) 1955 – Lionello Venturi Four Steps Toward Modern Art
- (9) 1956 – Joel H. Hildebrand Science in the Making
- (10) 1957 – Brock ChisholmBrock ChisholmGeorge Brock Chisholm, CC, MC & Bar was a Canadian First World War veteran, medical practitioner, and the first Director-General of the World Health Organization...
Prescription for Survival - (12) 1959 – Anthony BluntAnthony BluntAnthony Frederick Blunt , was a British art historian who was exposed as a Soviet spy late in his life.Blunt was Professor of the History of Art at the University of London, director of the Courtauld Institute of Art, Surveyor of the King's Pictures and London...
The Art of William Blake - (13) W. Barry WoodBarry Wood (football)William Barry Wood, Jr. , was an American football player and medical educator. Wood played quarterback for Harvard during the 1929-1931 seasons and was one of the most prominent football players of his time...
From Miasmas to Molecules - (14) 1962 – Paul TillichPaul TillichPaul Johannes Tillich was a German-American theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher. Tillich was one of the most influential Protestant theologians of the 20th century...
Christianity and the Encounter of the World Religions - (15) Northrop FryeNorthrop FryeHerman Northrop Frye, was a Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, considered one of the most influential of the 20th century....
A Natural Perspective: The Development of Shakespearean Comedy and Romance - (17) 1966 – Fred HoyleFred HoyleSir Fred Hoyle FRS was an English astronomer and mathematician noted primarily for his contribution to the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis and his often controversial stance on other cosmological and scientific matters—in particular his rejection of the "Big Bang" theory, a term originally...
Man in the Universe - (18) Alasdair C. MacIntyre The Religious Significance of Atheism
- (19) 1968 – John Newenham Summerson Victorian Architecture: Four Studies in Evaluation
- (20) Jacob BronowskiJacob BronowskiJacob Bronowski was a Polish-Jewish British mathematician, biologist, historian of science, theatre author, poet and inventor...
Magic, Science, and Civilization - (21) 1976 – Titian: His World and His Legacy
- (22) 1977? – Anthony KennyAnthony KennySir Anthony John Patrick Kenny FBA is an English philosopher whose interests lie in the philosophy of mind, ancient and scholastic philosophy, the philosophy of Wittgenstein and the philosophy of religion...
Faith and Reason - 1983 – Steven WeinbergSteven WeinbergSteven Weinberg is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his contributions with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow to the unification of the weak force and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles....
- (28) 1986 – Zellig Sabbetai Harris Language and Information
- 1988 – Robert GalloRobert GalloRobert Charles Gallo is an American biomedical researcher. He is best known for his role in the discovery of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus , the infectious agent responsible for the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome , and he has been a major contributor to subsequent HIV research.Gallo is the...
- (29) 1991 – James Cahill The Painter's Practice: How Artists Lived and Worked in Traditional China
- (33) 2001 – Archbishop Demetrios
- (37) 2011 Wendy Freedman The Size and Age of the Universe
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- Paul Ramsey Ethics at the Edges of Life: Medical and Legal Intersections
- Paul RicoeurPaul RicoeurPaul Ricœur was a French philosopher best known for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutic interpretation...
, George H. Taylor, Lectures on Ideology and Utopia