- 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 in1847 by the UnitarianRobert 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 theBBC .Lecturers (incomplete list)
1878-1894 (First Series)
*1878
Max Müller "On the Religions of India" (inaugural)
*1879Peter le Page Renouf "The Religion of the Egyptians"
*1880Ernest Renan "Lectures on the Influence of the Institutions, Thought And Culture of Rome on Christianity And the Development of the Catholic Church"
*1881T. W. Rhys Davids "Indian Buddhism"
*1882Abraham Kuenen "National Religions and Universal Religion"
*1883Charles Beard "The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century in its Relation to Modern Thought and Knowledge"
*1884Albert Reville "The Native Religions of Mexico and Peru"
*1885Otto Pfleiderer "The Influence of the Apostle Paul on the Development of Christianity"
*1886John Rhys "Lectures on the origin and growth of religion as illustrated by Celtic heathendom"
*1887Archibald Sayce "Babylonian Religion"
*1888Edwin Hatch "Influence of Greek Ideas and Usages Upon the Christian Church"
*1891Eugene, 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] ]
*1892Claude Montefiore "The Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Religion of the Ancient Hebrews"
*1893C. B. Upton "Lectures on the bases of religious belief"
*1894James Drummond "Via, Veritas, Vita; Christianity in its most simple and intelligible form"1900-1949
*1908
William James "A Pluralistic Universe"
*1911Lewis Richard Farnell "The Higher Aspects of Greek Religion"
*1912James H. Moulton "Early Zoroastrianism"
*1913Josiah 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"
*1914Herbert A. Giles "Confucianism and Its Rivals"
*1916L. 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"
*1919J. Estlin Carpenter "Theism in Medieval India"
*1920William Inge
*1921James Moffatt "The Approach to the New Testament"
*1922Lawrence Pearsall Jacks "Religious Perplexities"
*1923Felix Adler "The Reconstruction of the Spiritual Ideal"
*1924L. P. Jacks "The Challenge of Life"
*1929Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan "An Idealist View of Life"
*1930Rabindranath Tagore "The Religion of Man"
*1931G. Dawes Hicks "The Philosophical Bases of Theism"
*1932Robert Seymour Conway "Ancient Italy and Modern Religion"
*1933L. P. Jacks "The Revolt Against Mechanism"
*1934Albert Schweitzer
*1936W. E. Hocking "Living Religions and a World Faith"
*1937Gilbert Murray "Liberality and Civilisation"1950-1999
*1959
Basil Willey "Darwin And Butler: Two Versions of Evolution"
*1963James Luther Adams
*1964Geoffrey Nuttall ,Roger Thomas ,R. D. Whitehorn ,Harry Lismer Short , "The Beginnings of Nonconformity"
*1965F. H. Hilliard "Christianity in education"
*1979Rustum Roy "Experimenting with Truth"2000-
*2003
James L. Cox "Religion without God: Methodological Agnosticism and the Future of Religious Studies"
*2005Karen Armstrong andKhalid Hameed "Spirituality and global citizenship"Notes
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