- Swarthmore Lecture
Swarthmore Lecture is one of a series of lectures, started in 1908, addressed to
Britain Yearly Meeting of theReligious Society of Friends (Quakers).The preface to the very first lecture explains the purpose of the series.
“This book is the first of a series of public addresses to be known as the Swarthmore Lectures. The Lectureship was established by the Woodbrooke Extension Committee, at a meeting held December 9th, 1907. The Minute of the Committee provides for “an annual lecture on some subject relating to the Message and Work of the Society of Friends.” The name “Swarthmore” was chosen in memory of the home of Margaret Fox, which was always open to the earnest seeker after Truth, and from which loving words of sympathy and substantial material help were sent to fellow-workers.
“The Woodbrooke Extension Committee requested Rufus M. Jones, M.A., D.Litt., of
Haverford College ,Pennsylvania , to give the first lecture on the evening preceding the holding of the Friends’ Yearly Meeting of 1908. In accordance with this decision, the lecture was delivered in the Central Hall,Birmingham , on May 19th.“The Swarthmore Lectureship has been founded with a two-fold purpose: firstly, to interpret further to the members of the Society of Friends their Message and Mission; and secondly, to bring before the public the spirit, the aims and the fundamental principles of the Friends. This first lecture presents Quakerism as a religion of experience and first-hand reality—a dynamic, practical religion of life.”
The transcripts of the 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2006 lectures (not necessarily the text printed in the books listed above) are available as free downloads from the [http://www.woodbrooke.org.uk|Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre website] .
List of Swarthmore Lectures
List of Swarthmore Lectures Year Author Title Notes 1908 Rufus M. Jones, 1863-1948 "Quakerism: a Religion for life" 1909 William Charles Braithwaite, 1862-1922 "Spiritual Guidance in the experience of the Society of Friends" 1910 Joan Mary Fry , 1862-1955"The Communion of Life" 1911 Thomas Hodgkin, 1831-1913 "Human Progress and the Inward Light" 1912 T.R Glover, 1869-1943 "The Nature and Purpose of a Christian Society" For biographical information on this lecturer, "see" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography article by Sydney C. Roberts, ‘Glover, Terrot Reaveley (1869–1943)’, rev. Herbert H. Huxley, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/33427] , accessed 28 Jan 20071913 Joshua Rowntree , 1844-1915"Social Service - its place in the Society of Friends" 1914 Edward Grubb, 1854-1939 "The Historic and Inward Christ: a study in Quaker thought" For biographical information on this lecturer, "see" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography article by Thomas C. Kennedy, ‘Grubb, Edward (1854–1939)’, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/71530] accessed 28 Jan 20071915 Silvanus P. Thompson , 1851-1916"The Quest For Truth" 1916 Henry T. Hodgkin, 1877-1933 "The Missionary Spirit and the Present Opportunity" 1917 William Littleboy, 1853-1936 "The Day of Our Visitation" 1918 Lucy Fryer Morland, 1864-1945 "New Social Outlook" 1919 Lucy Violet (Hodgkin) Holdsworth, 1869-1954 "Silent Worship : The way of wonder" 1920 Herbert G. Wood, 1879-1963 "Quakerism and the Future of the Church" For biographical information on this lecturer, "see" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography article by Thomas C. Kennedy, "Wood, Herbert George (1879–1963)", [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/65076] , accessed 8 Dec 2006.1920 Rufus M. Jones, 1863-1948 "The nature and Authority of Conscience" 1921 T. Edmund Harvey, 1875-1955 "The Long Pilgrimage : human progress in the light of the Christian hope" 1922 Carl Heath, 1869-1950 "Religion and Public Life" 1923 Helen Maria Sturge "Personal Religion and the Service of Humanity" 1924 Gerald Kenway Hibbert, 1872-1957 "The Inner Light and Modern Thought" 1925 John William Graham, 1859-1932 "The Quaker ministry" 1926 A. Neave Brayshaw, 1861-1940 "The Things that Are Before Us" 1927 Henry Thomas Silcock, 1882-1969 "Christ and the World's Unrest" 1928 John S. Hoyland, 1887-1957 "Light of Christ" 1929 Arthur Stanley Eddington , 1882-1944"Science and the Unseen world" 1930 Gerhart von Schulze-Gaevernitz 1864 – 1943 "Democracy and Religion: a study in Quakerism" For biographical information on this lecturer, see James Thompson, ‘Gaevernitz, Gerhart von Schulze- (1864–1943)’ in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Online edn. May 2005 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/93049] accessed 14 March 2007 1931 Howard Brinton , 1884-1973"Creative Worship" 1932 Francis E. Pollard, 1872-1951 "Education and the Spirit of Man" 1933 Shipley N. Brayshaw, 1871-1957 "Unemployment and Plenty" 1934 George Barker Jeffery , 1891-1957"Christ, Yesterday And Today" London : George Allen & Unwin, 1934. 1935 William Ernest Wilson, 1880-1955 "Our Response To God" 1936 Howard E. Collier, 1890-1953 "Towards a New Manner of Living" 1937 Caroline Cassandra Graveson, 1874-1958 "Religion and Culture" 1938 A. Barratt Brown 1887-1947 "Democratic Leadership" 1939 David Elton Trueblood, 1900-1994 "The Trustworthiness of Religious Experience" 1940 John Armstrong Hughes, 1876-1942 "The Light of Christ in a Pagan World" 1941 Edgar Bradshaw Castle, 1897-1973 "The Undivided Mind" 1942 Margaret M. Harvey, 1898- "The Law of Liberty" 1943 Leyton Richards, 1879-1948 "Planning for Freedom" 1944 W. Russell Brain, 1895-1966 "Man, Society and Religion" 1945 Wilfrid Allott, 1891-1972 "Worship And Social Progress" 1946 Joseph Edward [John] Hoare, 1896-1980 "The Warrant For Youth's Search" 1947 John W. Harvey, 1889-1967 "The Salt and the Leaven" 1948 "There was no lecture this year" 1949 Roger C.Wilson, 1906-1991 "Authority, Leadership and Concern. A study in motive and administration in Quaker relief work" ISBN 0-85245-021-4 1950 Konrad Braun, 1896-1969 "Justice & the Law of Love" 1951 Richard Duncan Fairn, 1906-1986 "Quakerism — a faith for ordinary men" 1952 Thomas Farrimond Green, 1899-1966 "Preparation for Worship" ISBN 0-85245-046-X 1953 Kathleen Lonsdale , 1903-1971"Removing the Causes of War" 1954 Wilhelm Aarek, 1907-1999 "From Loneliness To Fellowship : A study in psychology and Quakerism" 1955 Douglas V. Steere, 1901-1995 "Where Words Come From - an interpretation of the ground & practise of Quaker worship & ministry" ISBN 0-85245-067-2 (reprinted as a paperback, 1985) 1956 Edgar Grieve Dunstan, 1890-1963 "Quakers & the Religious Quest" 1957 Henry J. Cadbury, 1883-1974 "Quakerism & Early Christianity" 1958 Margaret B. Hobling "The Concrete & the Universal" 1959 Harold Loukes, 1912-1980 "The Castle & the Field" 1960 Kenneth C. Barnes, 1903-1998 "Creative Imagination" 1961 Richard K. Ullmann, 1904-1963 "Tolerance & the Intolerable" 1962 J. Duncan Wood, 1911-2006 "Building the Institutions of Peace" 1963 L. Hugh Doncaster, 1914-1994 "God in Every Man" 1964 Richenda C. Scott, 1903-1984 "Tradition and Experience" 1965 John Macmurray , 1891-1976"Search for Reality in Religion" ISBN 0-85245-001-X 1966 William E. Barton "The Moral Challenge of Communism: Some Ethical aspects of Marxist/Leninist Society" 1967 Kathleen M. Slack, 1910- "Constancy and Change in the Society of Friends" 1968 William Homan Thorpe , 1902-1986"Quakers and Humanists" 1969 Maurice A. Creasey, 1912-2004 "Bearings, or, Friends and the new reformation" 1970 Kenneth E. Boulding , 1910-1993"Prospering of Truth" 1971 Charles Frederick Carter, 1919-2002 "On having a sense of all conditions" For biographical information on this lecturer, "see" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography article by Roger Middleton, "Carter, Sir Charles Frederick (1919–2002)", online edn Jan 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/77032] accessed 8 Dec 2006.1972 Richard S. Peters, 1919- "Reason, Morality and Religion" ISBN 0-7100-7651-7 1973 George H. Gorman, 1916-1982 "Amazing Fact of Quaker Worship" ISBN 0-85245-100-8 1974 Wolf Mendl, 1926-1999 "Prophets and Reconcilers, Reflections on the Quaker Peace Testimony" ISBN 0-85245-115-6. For biographical information on this Friend "see" [http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,248999,00.html Guardian Obituary] 1975 Ralph Hetherington, 1917-2000 "The Sense of Glory - A psychological study of peak-experiences" ISBN 0-85245-117-2 1976 W. Grigor McClelland, 1922- "And a new earth: Making tomorrow's society better than today's" ISBN 0-85245-122-9 (London : Society of Friends. London Yearly Meeting. Home Service Committee, 1976. - [7] , 91 p. ; 19 cm.) 1977 Damaris Parker-Rhodes, 1918-1986 "Truth - a Path & not a Possession" ISBN 0-85245-124-5 (London : Society of Friends. London Yearly Meeting. Home Service Committee, 1977. - [5] , 68 p. ; 19 cm.) (superseded by a new book: "The Way Out is the Way In", 1985 1978 John Ormerod Greenwood, 1907-1989 "Signs of Life : Art and Religious Experience" ISBN 0-85245-131-8 (London : Society of Friends. London Yearly Meeting. Home Service Committee, 1978. - [7] , 72 p. : plate, 1 ill ; 19 cm.) 1979 John Reader, 1915- "Of Schools and Schoolmasters. Some thoughts on the Quaker contribution to Education" ISBN 0-85245-140-7 1980 Janet Scott, 1941- "What Canst Thou Say? Towards a Quaker theology" ISBN 0-85245-151-2 1981 Adam Curle, 1916-2006 "True Justice, Quaker peace makers and peace making" ISBN 0-85245-156-3. For biographical information on this Friend " see" [http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1886913,00.html Guardian Obituary] 1982 Gerald Priestland , 1927-1991"Reasonable Uncertainty: a Quaker approach to doctrine" ISBN 0-85245-161-X 1983 Michael Rutter , 1933-"A Measure of Our Values: goals & dilemmas in the upbringing of children" ISBN 0-85245-170-9 (London : Society of Friends. London Yearly Meeting. Quaker Home Service, 1983. - 172 p. ; 19 cm.} 1984 Laurence Lerner, 1925- "Two Cinnas: Quakerism, Revolution and Poetry. A dialogue" ISBN 0-85245-182-2 1985 Christopher Holdsworth, 1931- "Steps in a Large Room: a Quaker explores the monastic tradition" ISBN 0-85245-188-1 1986 Quaker Women's Group "Bringing the Invisible into the Light. Some Quaker Feminists speak of their experience" ISBN 0-85245-199-7 Lecture performed at the University of Exeter 1987 John Lampen, 1938- "Mending the Hurts" ISBN 0-85245-206-3 1988 Harvey Gillman, 1947- "A Minority of One" ISBN 0-85245-207-1 1989 S. Jocelyn Burnell, 1943- "Broken for Life" ISBN 0-85245-222-5 Given at the University of Aberdeen 1990 John Punshon, 1935- "Testimony and Tradition: some aspects of Quaker spirituality" ISBN 0-85245-231-4 (London : Society of Friends. London Yearly Meeting. Quaker Home Service, 1990. - 94 p. ; 19 cm.) 1991 Geoffrey Hubbard , 1923-1998"Patterns and Examples. Quaker Attitudes and European Opportunities" ISBN 0-85245-236-5 1992 Brenda Clifft Heales & Chris Cook "Images and Silence: Future of Quaker Ministry" ISBN 0-85245-242-X 1993 Sydney D. Bailey, 1916-1995 "Peace is a Process" ISBN 0-85245-249-7 Lecture given at the University of Warwick 1994 Margaret Heathfield "Being together : our corporate life in the Religious Society of Friends" ISBN 0-85245-254-3 (London : Society of Friends. London Yearly Meeting. Quaker Home Service, 1994. - 123 p. ; 19 cm.) 1995 Anne Thomas "Only Fellow-Voyagers. Creation stories as guides for the journey" ISBN 0-85245-272-1 1996 Jonathan Dale "Beyond the Spirit of the Age" ISBN 0-85245-282-9 1997 Christine Trevett "Previous Convictions and end of the millennium Quakerism" ISBN 0-85245-290-X Lecture given at the University of Aberystwyth 1998 Young Friends General Meeting "Who do we think we are? Young Friends' Commitment and Belonging" ISBN 0-85245-299-3 1999 Alex Wildwood "A faith to call our own. Quaker tradition in the light of contemporary movements of the Spirit" ISBN 0-85245-312-4 2000 Tim Newell "Forgiving Justice. A Quaker vision for criminal justice" ISBN 0-85245-321-3. A new updated edition of this book was published in 2007 ISBN 9780901689511 2001 Tony Stoller "Wrestling with the Angel" ISBN 0-85245-326-4 Lecture given at the University of Exeter 2002 Jackie Leach Scully "Playing in the Presence: genetics, ethics and spirituality" ISBN 0-85245-337-X For her webpage "see" [http://pages.unibas.ch/ifgem/Scully.html http://pages.unibas.ch/ifgem/Scully.html] 2003 Eleanor Nesbitt "Interfaith Pilgrims: living truths and truthful living" ISBN 0-85245-347-7 2004 Simon Fisher "Spirited living : waging conflict, building peace" ISBN 0-85245-357-4 2005 Helen Steven "No Extraordinary Power: Prayer, Stillness and Activism" ISBN 0-85245-379-5 Lecture given at the University of York 2006 Roger and Susan Sawtell "Reflections from a Long Marriage" ISBN 0-85245-394-9 2007 Beth Allen "Ground and Spring: the foundation of Quaker Discipleship" ISBN 978-0-90168-967-2
[http://www.quaker.org.uk/shared_asp_files/GFSR.asp?NodeID=93671 BYM Press Release]2008 Christine A. M. Davis "Minding the Future" ISBN 0-90168-988-2
ISBN 978-0-90168-988-72009 to be announced "to be announced" The 2009 Swarthmore Lecture will be given during [http://www.ymg.org.uk/ Yearly Meeting Gathering] at University of York 25 July-1 August 2009.
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