Hibbert Lectures
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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
.
Hibbert Trust
The Hibbert Trust was founded by Robert Hibbert and originally designated the Anti-Trinitarian Fund. It came into operation in 1853, awarded scholarships and fellowships, supports the Hibbert Lectures, and maintained a chair of ecclesiastical history at Manchester College....
, which was founded in 1847 by the Unitarian
Unitarianism
Unitarianism is a Christian theological movement, named for its understanding of God as one person, in direct contrast to Trinitarianism which defines God as three persons coexisting consubstantially as one in being....
Robert Hibbert
Robert Hibbert
Robert Hibbert was the founder of the Hibbert Trust.-Biography:The third and posthumous son of John Hibbert , a Jamaica merchant, and Janet, daughter of Samuel Gordon, he was born in Jamaica; hence he spoke of himself as a Creole. His mother died early. Between 1784 and 1788, he was a pupil of...
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
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
.
1878-1894 (First Series)
- 1878 Max MüllerMax MüllerFriedrich Max Müller , more regularly known as Max Müller, was a German philologist and Orientalist, one of the founders of the western academic field of Indian studies and the discipline of comparative religion...
On the Religions of India (inaugural) - 1879 Peter le Page RenoufPeter le Page RenoufSir Peter le Page Renouf , Egyptologist, was born in Guernsey.He was educated at Elizabeth College there, and proceeded to Oxford, which, upon his becoming a Roman Catholic, under the influence of John Henry Newman, he quit without taking a degree as he was unable to subscribe to the Thirty Nine...
The Religion of the Egyptians - 1880 Ernest RenanErnest RenanErnest Renan was a French expert of Middle East ancient languages and civilizations, philosopher and writer, devoted to his native province of Brittany...
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 KuenenAbraham KuenenAbraham Kuenen , Dutch Protestant theologian, the son of an apothecary, was born in Haarlem, North Holland....
National Religions and Universal Religion - 1883 Charles BeardCharles Beard (disambiguation)Charles Beard was a U.S. historian.Charles Beard may also refer to:* Charles Beard Izard , 19th century New Zealand MP* Edmund Charles Beard , British Major-General during the Second World War...
The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century in its Relation to Modern Thought and Knowledge - 1884 Albert RevilleAlbert RevilleAlbert Réville was a distinguished French Protestant theologian, known for his 'extremist' liberal views. He is also known for being one of the first "intellectuals" to join the Dreyfusard cause when the Dreyfus Affair erupted in the 1890s.Réville was born in Dieppe, Seine-Maritime...
The Native Religions of Mexico and Peru - 1885 Otto PfleidererOtto PfleidererOtto Pfleiderer was a German Protestant theologian.-Biography:He was born at Stetten in Württemberg. From 1857 to 1861 he studied at the University of Tübingen under FC Baur, and afterwards in England and Scotland...
The Influence of the Apostle Paul on the Development of Christianity - 1886 John RhysJohn RhysSir John Rhys was a Welsh scholar, fellow of the British Academy, celticist and the first Professor of Celtic at Oxford University.-Early years and education:...
Lectures on the origin and growth of religion as illustrated by Celtic heathendom - 1887 Archibald SayceArchibald SayceThe Rev. Archibald Henry Sayce , was a pioneer British Assyriologist and linguist, who held a chair as Professor of Assyriology at the University of Oxford from 1891 to 1919.- Life :...
Babylonian Religion - 1888 Edwin HatchEdwin HatchEdwin Hatch was an English theologian born on September 4, 1835 in Derby, England. He is best known as the author of the book Influence of Greek Ideas and Usages Upon the Christian Church, which was based on the lectures he presented during the 1888 Hibbert Lectures and which were edited and...
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
- 1892 Claude MontefioreClaude MontefioreClaude Joseph Goldsmid Montefiore was son of Nathaniel Montefiore, and the great nephew of Sir Moses Montefiore. Some identify him as a significant figure in the contexts of modern Jewish religious thought, Jewish-Christian relations, and Anglo-Jewish socio-politics.-Education:He was educated at...
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 DrummondJames DrummondJames Drummond may refer to:*James Drummond, 1st Baron Maderty*James Drummond , Bishop of Brechin*James Drummond , Scottish-born botanist and naturalist, early settler in Western Australia....
Via, Veritas, Vita; Christianity in its most simple and intelligible form
1900-1949
- 1906 Franz CumontFranz CumontFranz-Valéry-Marie Cumont was a Belgian archaeologist and historian, a philologist and student of epigraphy, who brought these often isolated specialties to bear on the syncretic mystery religions of Late Antiquity, notably Mithraism. Cumont was a graduate of the University of Ghent...
(on Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism) - 1908 William JamesWilliam JamesWilliam James was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher who was trained as a physician. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and on the philosophy of pragmatism...
A Pluralistic Universe - 1911 Lewis Richard FarnellLewis Richard FarnellLewis Richard Farnell FBA was a classical scholar and Oxford academic, where he served as Vice-Chancellor from 1920 to 1923.Lewis Farnell was born in Salisbury, southern England, in 1856. He was educated at the City of London School and Exeter College, Oxford, where he graduated with a first class...
The Higher Aspects of Greek Religion - 1912 James Hope MoultonJames Hope MoultonReverend James Hope Moulton, born on 11 October 1863, and died at sea on 9 April 1917, was an English non-conformist divine.-Biography:His family had a strong Methodist background. His father was the first headmaster of the Leys School, Cambridge where James was one of the first students. After...
Early Zoroastrianism - 1913 Josiah RoyceJosiah RoyceJosiah Royce was an American objective idealist philosopher.-Life:Royce, born in Grass Valley, California, grew up in pioneer California very soon after the California Gold Rush. He received the B.A...
The Problem of Christianity, online edition (volume one) - 1913 David Samuel MargoliouthDavid Samuel MargoliouthDavid Samuel Margoliouth was an orientalist. He was briefly active as a priest in the Church of England...
The Early Development of Mohammedanism - 1914 Herbert A. Giles Confucianism and Its Rivals
- 1916 Louis de La Vallée-PoussinLouis de La Vallée-PoussinLouis de La Vallée Poussin — Birth full name Louis Étienne Joseph Marie de La Vallée-Poussin — was a Belgian Indologist and scholar of Buddhist Studies.-Education:...
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 IngeWilliam Ralph IngeWilliam Ralph Inge was an English author, Anglican priest, professor of divinity at Cambridge, and Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, which provided the appellation by which he was widely known, "Dean Inge."- Life :...
- 1921 James MoffattJames MoffattJames Moffatt was a theologian and graduate of Glasgow University.Moffatt trained at the Free Church College, Glasgow, and was a practising minister before becoming Professor of Greek and New Testament Exegesis at Mansfield College, Oxford in 1911. He returned to Glasgow in 1915 as Professor of...
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
- 1929 Sarvepalli RadhakrishnanSarvepalli RadhakrishnanSir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan , OM, FBA was an Indian philosopher and statesman. He was the first Vice President of India and subsequently the second President of India ....
An Idealist View of Life - 1930 Rabindranath TagoreRabindranath TagoreRabindranath Tagore , sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature...
The Religion of Man - 1931 George Dawes Hicks The Philosophical Bases of Theism
- 1932 Robert Seymour ConwayRobert Seymour ConwayRobert Seymour Conway was a British classical scholar and comparative philologist. Born in Stoke Newington, he was the older brother of Katharine St John Conway...
Ancient Italy and Modern Religion - 1933 Lawrence Pearsall Jacks The Revolt Against Mechanism
- 1934 Albert SchweitzerAlbert SchweitzerAlbert Schweitzer OM was a German theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary. He was born in Kaysersberg in the province of Alsace-Lorraine, at that time part of the German Empire...
Religion in Modern Civilization - 1936 William Ernest HockingWilliam Ernest HockingWilliam Ernest Hocking was an American idealist philosopher at Harvard University. He continued the work of his philosophical teacher Josiah Royce in revising idealism to integrate and fit into empiricism, naturalism and pragmatism...
Living Religions and a World Faith - 1937 Gilbert MurrayGilbert MurrayGeorge Gilbert Aimé Murray, OM was an Australian born British classical scholar and public intellectual, with connections in many spheres. He was an outstanding scholar of the language and culture of Ancient Greece, perhaps the leading authority in the first half of the twentieth century...
Liberality and Civilisation
1950-1999
- 1959 Basil WilleyBasil WilleyBasil Willey was a professor of English literature at Cambridge University and a prolific author of well-written and scholarly works on English literature and intellectual history....
Darwin And Butler: Two Versions of Evolution - 1963 James Luther AdamsJames Luther AdamsJames Luther Adams , an American professor at Harvard Divinity School, Andover Newton Theological School, and Meadville Lombard Theological School, and a Unitarian parish minister, was the most influential theologian among American Unitarian Universalists in the 20th century.Adams was born in...
- 1964 Geoffrey NuttallGeoffrey NuttallGeoffrey Fillingham Nuttall FBA was a British Congregational minister and church historian.Nuttall was born in Colwyn Bay, North Wales, the son of the general practitioner. He was educated at Bootham School, the Quaker school in York, and read Mods and Greats at Balliol College, Oxford, and then...
, Roger ThomasRoger ThomasRoger Thomas is an American football coach, currently commissioner of the NCAA Division II North Central Conference. Thomas was the head coach of the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux football team from 1986 to 1998, and the UND athletic director from 1999 to 2005.-Career:*1969-1976...
, Roy Drummond Whitehorn, Harry Lismer Short, The Beginnings of Nonconformity - 1965 Frederick Hadaway Hilliard Christianity in education
- 1977 Jonathon PorrittJonathon PorrittJonathon Espie Porritt, CBE, is an English environmentalist and writer. Porritt appears frequently in the media, writing in magazines, newspapers and books, and appearing on radio and television regularly.-Early life and family background:...
, Bringing Religion Down to Earth - 1979 Rustum RoyRustum RoyRustum Roy was a materials scientist who held visiting professorships in materials science at Arizona State University and in medicine at the University of Arizona, as well as an emeritus position at Pennsylvania State University in three departments...
Experimenting with Truth - 1989 Bede GriffithsBede GriffithsBede Griffiths OSB Cam , born Alan Richard Griffiths and also known, by the end of his life, as Swami Dayananda , was a British-born Indian Benedictine monk who lived in ashrams in South India and became a noted yogi...
, 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 ArmstrongKaren ArmstrongKaren Armstrong FRSL , is a British author and commentator who is the author of twelve books on comparative religion. A former Roman Catholic nun, she went from a conservative to a more liberal and mystical faith...
and Khalid Hameed Spirituality and global citizenship