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| − | The '''[ | + | The '''[https://www.giffordlectures.org/online.asp Gifford Lectures]''' were established by the will of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Lord_Gifford Adam Lord Gifford] (d. [1887). They were established to "promote and diffuse the study of Natural Theology in the widest sense of the term — in other words, the knowledge of God." The term [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Theology natural theology] as used by Gifford means theology supported by [[science]] and not dependent on the [[miracle|miraculous]]. The [[lectures]] are given at the Scottish universities: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_St._Andrews University of St Andrews], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Glasgow University of Glasgow], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Aberdeen University of Aberdeen] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Edinburgh University of Edinburgh]. |
A Gifford lectures appointment is one of the most prestigious [[honors]] in [[academia]]. They are normally presented as a series over an academic year and given with the intent that the edited content be published in [[book]] form. A number of these works have become [[classics]] in the fields of [[theology]] or [[philosophy]] and their relationship to [[science]]. | A Gifford lectures appointment is one of the most prestigious [[honors]] in [[academia]]. They are normally presented as a series over an academic year and given with the intent that the edited content be published in [[book]] form. A number of these works have become [[classics]] in the fields of [[theology]] or [[philosophy]] and their relationship to [[science]]. | ||
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*1898–00 [[Josiah Royce]] ''The World and the Individual'' | *1898–00 [[Josiah Royce]] ''The World and the Individual'' | ||
*1936–38 [[Karl Barth]] ''The Knowledge of God and the Service of God according to the Teaching of the Reformation'' | *1936–38 [[Karl Barth]] ''The Knowledge of God and the Service of God according to the Teaching of the Reformation'' | ||
| − | *1951–52 [ | + | *1951–52 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Polanyi Michael Polanyi] ''Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy'', ISBN 0-226-67288-3 |
| − | *1953–54 [ | + | *1953–54 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Tillich Paul Tillich] ''Systematic Theology'' (3 vols.): ISBN 0-226-80337-6, ISBN 0-226-80338-4, ISBN 0-226-80339-2 |
| − | *1965-1967 [ | + | *1965-1967 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Aron Raymond Aron] ''La Conscience historique dans la pensée et dans l'action'' |
| − | *1973 [ | + | *1973 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Arendt Hannah Arendt] ''Life of the Mind'' |
| − | *1982–84 [ | + | *1982–84 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Swinburne Richard Swinburne] ''The Evolution of the Soul'', ISBN 0-19-823698-0 |
| − | *1984–85 [ | + | *1984–85 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman_Dyson Freeman Dyson] ''Infinite In All Directions'', ISBN 0-06-072889-2 |
| − | *1989–91 [ | + | *1989–91 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Barbour Ian Barbour] ''Religion in an Age of Science'', ISBN 0-06-060383-6 |
| − | *1992–93 [ | + | *1992–93 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaroslav_Pelikan Jaroslav Pelikan] ''Christianity and Classical Culture: The Metamorphosis of Natural Theology in the Christian Encounter With Hellenism'', ISBN 0-300-06255-9 |
| − | *1994–95 [ | + | *1994–95 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W._Rogerson John W. Rogerson] ''Faith and Criticism in the Work of William Robertson Smith, 1846-1894'' |
| − | *1994–95 [ | + | *1994–95 [https://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=210 M. A. Stewart] ''New Light and Enlightenment'' |
| − | *1994–95 [ | + | *1994–95 [https://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=209 Peter Jones] ''Science and Religion before and after Hume'' |
| − | *1994–95 [ | + | *1994–95 [https://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=211 James H. Burns] ''The Order of Nature'' |
| − | *1994–95 [ | + | *1994–95 [https://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=213 Alexander Broadie] ''The Shadow of Scotus'' |
| − | *1997–98 [ | + | *1997–98 [https://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=214 Russell Stannard] ''The God Experiment'' |
| − | *2000–01 [ | + | *2000–01 [https://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=215 John S. Habgood] ''The Concept of Nature'' |
| − | *2003–04 [ | + | *2003–04 [https://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=216 John Haldane] ''Mind, Soul and Deity'' |
| − | *2003 [ | + | *2003 [https://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=204 Eleonore Stump] ''Wandering in the Darkness'' |
===Edinburgh=== | ===Edinburgh=== | ||
| − | *1891 [ | + | *1891 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gabriel_Stokes George Gabriel Stokes] ''Natural Theology'' |
| − | *1900–02 [ | + | *1900–02 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_james William James] ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Varieties_of_Religious_Experience The Varieties of Religious Experience]'', ISBN 0-679-64011-8 (several editions in print) |
| − | *1909–10 [ | + | *1909–10 [https://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=65 William Warde Fowler] ''The Religious Experience of the Roman People'', ISBN 0-8154-0372-0 |
| − | *1911–12 [ | + | *1911–12 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Bosanquet_%28philosopher%29 Bernard Bosanquet] ''The Principle of Individuality and Value'', ISBN 0-527-10036-6 |
| − | *1913–14 [ | + | *1913–14 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Bergson Henri Bergson] ''The Problem of Personality'' |
| − | *1915–16 [ | + | *1915–16 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Mitchell_Ramsay William Mitchell Ramsay] ''Asianic Elements in Greek Civilization'', ISBN 0-89005-173-9 |
| − | *1919–21 [ | + | *1919–21 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stout George Stout] ''Mind and Matter'' pub. 1931 |
| − | *1921–23 [ | + | *1921–23 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Seth_Pringle-Pattison Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison] ''Studies in the Philosophy of Religion'', ISBN 0-404-60474-9 |
| − | *1923–25 [ | + | *1923–25 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_George_Frazer James George Frazer] ''The Worship of Nature'' ISBN 1-56459-532-3 |
| − | *1926–27 [ | + | *1926–27 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Eddington Arthur Eddington] ''The Nature of the Physical World'', ISBN 0-472-06015-5 |
| − | *1927–28 [ | + | *1927–28 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_North_Whitehead Alfred North Whitehead] ''Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology'', ISBN 0-02-934570-7 |
| − | *1928–29 [ | + | *1928–29 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dewey John Dewey] ''The Quest for Certainty: A Study of the Relation of Knowledge and Action'', ISBN 1-4179-0845-9 |
| − | *1934–35 [ | + | *1934–35 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Schweitzer Albert Schweitzer] ''The Problem of Natural Theology and Natural Ethics'' (unpublished) |
| − | *1937–38 [ | + | *1937–38 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sherrington Charles Sherrington] ''Man on His Nature'', ISBN 0-521-06436-8 |
| − | *1938–40 [ | + | *1938–40 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhold_Niebuhr Reinhold Niebuhr] ''The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation '', (2 vol set): ISBN 0-664-25709-7 |
| − | *1947–49 [ | + | *1947–49 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Dawson Christopher Dawson] part 1:''Religion and Culture'' ISBN 0-404-60498-6 part 2: ''Religion and the Rise of Western Culture'' ISBN 0-385-42110-9 |
| − | *1949–50 [ | + | *1949–50 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr Niels Bohr] ''Causality and Complementarity: Epistemological Lessons of Studies in Atomic Physics'', ISBN 1-881987-14-0 |
| − | *1952–53 [ | + | *1952–53 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_J._Toynbee Arnold J. Toynbee] ''An Historian's Approach to Religion'', ISBN 0-19-215260-2 |
| − | *1954–55 [ | + | *1954–55 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Bultmann Rudolf Bultmann] ''History and Eschatology: The Presence of Eternity'', ISBN 0-8371-8123-2 |
| − | *1973–74 [ | + | *1973–74 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Chadwick Owen Chadwick] ''The Secularisation of the European Mind in the 19th Century'', ISBN 0-521-39829-0 |
| − | *1974–76 [ | + | *1974–76 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Jaki Stanley Jaki] ''The Road of Science and the Ways to God'', ISBN 0-226-39145-0 |
| − | *1978–79 [ | + | *1978–79 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_John_Eccles Sir John Eccles] ''The Human Mystery'', ''The Human Psyche'', ISBN 0-387-09954-9 |
| − | *1979–80 [ | + | *1979–80 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninian_Smart Ninian Smart] "The Varieties of Religious Identity", published as ''Beyond Ideology: Religion and the Future of Western Civilisation'', ISBN 0-06-067402-4 |
| − | *1980–81 [ | + | *1980–81 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seyyed_Hossein_Nasr Seyyed Hossein Nasr] ''Knowledge and the Sacred'', ISBN 0-7914-0177-4 |
| − | *1981–82 [ | + | *1981–82 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_Murdoch Iris Murdoch] ''Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals'', ISBN 0-14-017232-7 |
| − | *1984–85 [ | + | *1984–85 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurgen_Moltmann Jurgen Moltmann] ''God in Creation: A New Theology of Creation and the Spirit of God'', ISBN 0-8006-2823-3 |
| − | *1986–87 [ | + | *1986–87 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hick John Hick] ''An Interpretation of Religion'', (2nd ed.): ISBN 0-300-10668-8 |
| − | *1987–88 [ | + | *1987–88 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alasdair_MacIntyre Alasdair MacIntyre] ''Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry'': ISBN 0-7156-2337-0 |
| − | *1993–94 [ | + | *1993–94 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Polkinghorne John Polkinghorne] ''Science and Christian Belief: Theological Reflections of a Bottom-up Thinker'', ISBN 0-281-04714-6 |
| − | *1995-6 [ | + | *1995-6 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._A._Cohen G. A. Cohen] ''If you're an Egalitarian, how come you're so Rich?'', published by Harvard University Press under the same title: ISBN 0-674-00693-3 |
| − | *1997–98 [ | + | *1997–98 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmes_Rolston_III Holmes Rolston III] ''Genes, Genesis and God'', ISBN 0-521-64674-X |
| − | *1998–99 [ | + | *1998–99 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Taylor_%28philosopher%29 Charles Taylor], ''Living in a Secular Age'', published as ''A Secular Age'': ISBN 0-674-02676-4 |
| − | *1999–2000 [ | + | *1999–2000 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tracy David Tracy], ''This side of God'' |
| − | *2000–01 [ | + | *2000–01 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onora_O%27Neill Onora O'Neill], ''Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics'' |
| − | *2001–02 [ | + | *2001–02 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Arkoun Mohammed Arkoun], ''Inaugurating a Critique of Islamic Reason'' |
| − | *2002–03 [ | + | *2002–03 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ignatieff Michael Ignatieff] ''The Lesser Evil - Political Ethics in an Age of Terror'', ISBN 0-691-11751-9 |
| − | *2003–04 [ | + | *2003–04 [https://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=267 J. Wentzel van Huyssteen] ''Alone in the World? Human Uniqueness in Science and Theology'', ISBN 0-8028-3246-6 |
| − | *2004–05 [ | + | *2004–05 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Anstee Dame Margaret Anstee], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Toulmin Stephen Toulmin], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky Noam Chomsky], delivering a series of lectures dedicated to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Said Edward Said] who was scheduled to give the 2004–05 series before his death in 2003. |
| − | *2005–06 [ | + | *2005–06 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Bethke_Elshtain Jean Bethke Elshtain], ''Sovereign God, Sovereign State, Sovereign Self'' |
| − | *2006–07 [ | + | *2006–07 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Conway_Morris Simon Conway Morris] ''Darwin 's Compass: How Evolution Discovers the Song of Creation'' and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Riley-Smith Jonathan Riley-Smith], ''The Crusades and Christianity'' |
| − | *2007–08 [ | + | *2007–08 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Nehamas Alexander Nehamas], TBA and [https://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=290 Robert M. Veatch], ''Hipprocratic, Religious and Secular Medical Ethics: The Point of Conflict'' |
===Glasgow=== | ===Glasgow=== | ||
| − | *1888–92 [ | + | *1888–92 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Max_M%C3%BCller Friedrich Max Müller] 1888: ''Natural Religion'' vol. 1 & 2; 1890: ''Physical Religion''; 1891: ''Anthropological Religion'': 1892: ''Theosophy or Psychological Religion'' |
| − | *1892–96 [ | + | *1892–96 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Caird_%28theologian%29 John Caird] ''The Fundamental Ideas of Christianity'' Vol.1&2 |
| − | *1896–98 [ | + | *1896–98 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Balmain_Bruce Alexander Balmain Bruce] ''The Moral Order of the World'', ''The Providential Order of the World'' |
| − | *1914 [ | + | *1914 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Balfour Arthur Balfour] ''Theism and Humanism'' ISBN 1-58742-005-8 |
| − | *1916–18 [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Alexander Samuel Alexander] ''Space, Time, and Deity'', volume one: ISBN 0766187012, volume two: ISBN 0766187020 | + | *1916–18 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Alexander Samuel Alexander] ''Space, Time, and Deity'', volume one: ISBN 0766187012, volume two: ISBN 0766187020 |
| − | *1922 [ | + | *1922 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Balfour Arthur Balfour] ''Theism and Thought'' |
| − | *1927–28 [ | + | *1927–28 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._B._S._Haldane J. B. S. Haldane] ''The Sciences and Philosophy'', ISBN 0-404-60479-X |
| − | *1932–34 [ | + | *1932–34 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Temple_%28bishop%29 William Temple]] ''Nature, Man and God'' |
| − | *1952-54 [ | + | *1952-54 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Macmurray John Macmurray] ''The Form of the Personal'' vol 1: ''The Self as Agent'' ISBN 1573923370 vol 2: ''Persons in Relation'' ISBN 1573926256 |
| − | *1959 [ | + | *1959 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_von_Weizs%C3%A4cker Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker] ''The Relevance of Science'' |
| − | *1970 [ | + | *1970 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_William_Southern Richard William Southern] ''The Rise and Fall of the Medieval System of Religious Thought'' |
| − | *1985 [ | + | *1985 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan Carl Sagan] ''The Search for Who We Are'', published in 2006 as ''The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God'', ISBN 1-59420-107-2 |
| − | *1988 [ | + | *1988 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Cupitt Don Cupitt] ''Nature and Culture'' |
| − | *1988 [ | + | *1988 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins Richard Dawkins] ''Worlds in Microcosm'' |
| − | *1992 [ | + | *1992 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Warnock Mary Warnock] ''Imagination and Understanding'', published as ''Imagination and Time'', ISBN 0-631-19019-8 |
| − | *1993–94 [ | + | *1993–94 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Ward Keith Ward] ''Religion and Revelation'' ISBN 0-19-826375-9 (ISBN 13: 978-0-19-826375-3) |
| − | *1995–96 [ | + | *1995–96 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hedley_Brooke John Hedley Brooke] ''Reconstructing Nature'' |
| − | *1997–98 [ | + | *1997–98 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._J._Berry R J (Sam) Berry] ''Gods, Genes, Greens and Everything'' |
| − | *1999–00 [ | + | *1999–00 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_McInerny Ralph McInerny] ''Characters in Search of Their Author'' |
| − | *2001 [ | + | *2001 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynne_Rudder_Baker Lynne Baker] ''The Nature and Limits of Human Understanding'' |
| − | *2003–04 [ | + | *2003–04 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Blackburn Simon Blackburn] ''Reason's Empire'' |
===St Andrews=== | ===St Andrews=== | ||
| − | *1902–04 [ | + | *1902–04 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Haldane Richard Haldane] ''The Pathway to Reality'', ISBN 0-404-60459-5 |
| − | *1917–18 [ | + | *1917–18 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_R._Inge William R. Inge] ''The Philosophy of Plotinus'', ISBN 1-59244-284-6 |
| − | *1921–22 [ | + | *1921–22 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Lloyd_Morgan C. Lloyd Morgan] ''Emergent Evolution'' (1923) ISBN 0-40460468-4, and ''Life, Mind, and Spirit'' (1925) |
| − | *1955–56 [ | + | *1955–56 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg Werner Heisenberg] ''Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science'', ISBN 1-57392-694-9 |
| − | *1962–64 [ | + | *1962–64 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Chadwick_%28theologian%29 Henry Chadwick]] ''Authority in the Early Church'' |
| − | *1972–73 [ | + | *1972–73 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Ayer Alfred Ayer] ''The Central Questions of Philosophy'', ISBN 0-03-013116-2 |
| − | *1975–77 [ | + | *1975–77 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reijer_Hooykaas Reijer Hooykaas] ''Fact, Faith and Fiction in the Development of Science'' |
| − | *1977–78 [ | + | *1977–78 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Stafford-Clark David Stafford-Clark] ''Myth, Magic and Denial'' |
| − | *1980–81 [ | + | *1980–81 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Vlastos Gregory Vlastos] ''Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher'' |
| − | *1982–83 [ | + | *1982–83 [https://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=41 Donald Geoffrey Charlton] ''New Images of the Natural, 1750-1800'' |
| − | *1983–84 [ | + | *1983–84 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Macquarrie John Macquarrie] ''In Search of Deity'' |
| − | *1984–85 [ | + | *1984–85 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Grunbaum Adolf Grunbaum] ''Psychoanalytic Theory and Science'' |
| − | *1986–87 [ | + | *1986–87 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Flew Antony Flew] ''The Logic of Mortality'' |
| − | *1988–89 [ | + | *1988–89 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Burkert Walter Burkert] ''Tracks of Biology and the Creation of Sense'' |
| − | *1990–91 [ | + | *1990–91 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_Putnam Hilary Putnam] ''Renewing Philosophy'' |
| − | *1992–93 [ | + | *1992–93 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Peacocke Arthur Peacocke] ''Nature, God and Humanity:'' |
| − | *1992–93 [ | + | *1992–93 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Penrose Roger Penrose] ''The Question of Physical Reality'' |
| − | *1995 [ | + | *1995 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Wolterstorff Nicholas Wolterstorff] ''Thomas Reid and the Story of Epistemology'' |
| − | *1996–97 [ | + | *1996–97 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Dummett Michael Dummett] ''Thought and Reality'' |
| − | *1999 [ | + | *1999 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Merrihew_Adams Robert Merrihew Adams] ''God and Being'' |
| − | *1999 [ | + | *1999 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_McCord_Adams Marilyn McCord Adams] ''The Coherence of Christology'' |
| − | *2001–02 [ | + | *2001–02 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Hauerwas Stanley Hauerwas] ''With the Grain of the Universe: The Church's Witness and Natural Theology'', ISBN 1-58743-016-9 |
| − | *2002 [ | + | *2002 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_van_Inwagen Peter van Inwagen] ''The Problem of Evil and the Argument from Evil'' |
| − | *2004–05 [ | + | *2004–05 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Plantinga Alvin Plantinga] ''Science and Religion: Conflict or Concord'' |
==References== | ==References== | ||
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==External links== | ==External links== | ||
| − | *[ | + | *[https://www.giffordlectures.org/online.asp Gifford Lectures Online] presents full text of many series. |
[[Category:Philosophy]] | [[Category:Philosophy]] | ||
Latest revision as of 00:32, 13 December 2020
The Gifford Lectures were established by the will of Adam Lord Gifford (d. [1887). They were established to "promote and diffuse the study of Natural Theology in the widest sense of the term — in other words, the knowledge of God." The term natural theology as used by Gifford means theology supported by science and not dependent on the miraculous. The lectures are given at the Scottish universities: University of St Andrews, University of Glasgow, University of Aberdeen and University of Edinburgh.
A Gifford lectures appointment is one of the most prestigious honors in academia. They are normally presented as a series over an academic year and given with the intent that the edited content be published in book form. A number of these works have become classics in the fields of theology or philosophy and their relationship to science.
Notable lectures
Aberdeen
- 1898–00 Josiah Royce The World and the Individual
- 1936–38 Karl Barth The Knowledge of God and the Service of God according to the Teaching of the Reformation
- 1951–52 Michael Polanyi Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy, ISBN 0-226-67288-3
- 1953–54 Paul Tillich Systematic Theology (3 vols.): ISBN 0-226-80337-6, ISBN 0-226-80338-4, ISBN 0-226-80339-2
- 1965-1967 Raymond Aron La Conscience historique dans la pensée et dans l'action
- 1973 Hannah Arendt Life of the Mind
- 1982–84 Richard Swinburne The Evolution of the Soul, ISBN 0-19-823698-0
- 1984–85 Freeman Dyson Infinite In All Directions, ISBN 0-06-072889-2
- 1989–91 Ian Barbour Religion in an Age of Science, ISBN 0-06-060383-6
- 1992–93 Jaroslav Pelikan Christianity and Classical Culture: The Metamorphosis of Natural Theology in the Christian Encounter With Hellenism, ISBN 0-300-06255-9
- 1994–95 John W. Rogerson Faith and Criticism in the Work of William Robertson Smith, 1846-1894
- 1994–95 M. A. Stewart New Light and Enlightenment
- 1994–95 Peter Jones Science and Religion before and after Hume
- 1994–95 James H. Burns The Order of Nature
- 1994–95 Alexander Broadie The Shadow of Scotus
- 1997–98 Russell Stannard The God Experiment
- 2000–01 John S. Habgood The Concept of Nature
- 2003–04 John Haldane Mind, Soul and Deity
- 2003 Eleonore Stump Wandering in the Darkness
Edinburgh
- 1891 George Gabriel Stokes Natural Theology
- 1900–02 William James The Varieties of Religious Experience, ISBN 0-679-64011-8 (several editions in print)
- 1909–10 William Warde Fowler The Religious Experience of the Roman People, ISBN 0-8154-0372-0
- 1911–12 Bernard Bosanquet The Principle of Individuality and Value, ISBN 0-527-10036-6
- 1913–14 Henri Bergson The Problem of Personality
- 1915–16 William Mitchell Ramsay Asianic Elements in Greek Civilization, ISBN 0-89005-173-9
- 1919–21 George Stout Mind and Matter pub. 1931
- 1921–23 Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison Studies in the Philosophy of Religion, ISBN 0-404-60474-9
- 1923–25 James George Frazer The Worship of Nature ISBN 1-56459-532-3
- 1926–27 Arthur Eddington The Nature of the Physical World, ISBN 0-472-06015-5
- 1927–28 Alfred North Whitehead Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology, ISBN 0-02-934570-7
- 1928–29 John Dewey The Quest for Certainty: A Study of the Relation of Knowledge and Action, ISBN 1-4179-0845-9
- 1934–35 Albert Schweitzer The Problem of Natural Theology and Natural Ethics (unpublished)
- 1937–38 Charles Sherrington Man on His Nature, ISBN 0-521-06436-8
- 1938–40 Reinhold Niebuhr The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation , (2 vol set): ISBN 0-664-25709-7
- 1947–49 Christopher Dawson part 1:Religion and Culture ISBN 0-404-60498-6 part 2: Religion and the Rise of Western Culture ISBN 0-385-42110-9
- 1949–50 Niels Bohr Causality and Complementarity: Epistemological Lessons of Studies in Atomic Physics, ISBN 1-881987-14-0
- 1952–53 Arnold J. Toynbee An Historian's Approach to Religion, ISBN 0-19-215260-2
- 1954–55 Rudolf Bultmann History and Eschatology: The Presence of Eternity, ISBN 0-8371-8123-2
- 1973–74 Owen Chadwick The Secularisation of the European Mind in the 19th Century, ISBN 0-521-39829-0
- 1974–76 Stanley Jaki The Road of Science and the Ways to God, ISBN 0-226-39145-0
- 1978–79 Sir John Eccles The Human Mystery, The Human Psyche, ISBN 0-387-09954-9
- 1979–80 Ninian Smart "The Varieties of Religious Identity", published as Beyond Ideology: Religion and the Future of Western Civilisation, ISBN 0-06-067402-4
- 1980–81 Seyyed Hossein Nasr Knowledge and the Sacred, ISBN 0-7914-0177-4
- 1981–82 Iris Murdoch Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals, ISBN 0-14-017232-7
- 1984–85 Jurgen Moltmann God in Creation: A New Theology of Creation and the Spirit of God, ISBN 0-8006-2823-3
- 1986–87 John Hick An Interpretation of Religion, (2nd ed.): ISBN 0-300-10668-8
- 1987–88 Alasdair MacIntyre Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: ISBN 0-7156-2337-0
- 1993–94 John Polkinghorne Science and Christian Belief: Theological Reflections of a Bottom-up Thinker, ISBN 0-281-04714-6
- 1995-6 G. A. Cohen If you're an Egalitarian, how come you're so Rich?, published by Harvard University Press under the same title: ISBN 0-674-00693-3
- 1997–98 Holmes Rolston III Genes, Genesis and God, ISBN 0-521-64674-X
- 1998–99 Charles Taylor, Living in a Secular Age, published as A Secular Age: ISBN 0-674-02676-4
- 1999–2000 David Tracy, This side of God
- 2000–01 Onora O'Neill, Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics
- 2001–02 Mohammed Arkoun, Inaugurating a Critique of Islamic Reason
- 2002–03 Michael Ignatieff The Lesser Evil - Political Ethics in an Age of Terror, ISBN 0-691-11751-9
- 2003–04 J. Wentzel van Huyssteen Alone in the World? Human Uniqueness in Science and Theology, ISBN 0-8028-3246-6
- 2004–05 Dame Margaret Anstee, Stephen Toulmin, and Noam Chomsky, delivering a series of lectures dedicated to Edward Said who was scheduled to give the 2004–05 series before his death in 2003.
- 2005–06 Jean Bethke Elshtain, Sovereign God, Sovereign State, Sovereign Self
- 2006–07 Simon Conway Morris Darwin 's Compass: How Evolution Discovers the Song of Creation and Jonathan Riley-Smith, The Crusades and Christianity
- 2007–08 Alexander Nehamas, TBA and Robert M. Veatch, Hipprocratic, Religious and Secular Medical Ethics: The Point of Conflict
Glasgow
- 1888–92 Friedrich Max Müller 1888: Natural Religion vol. 1 & 2; 1890: Physical Religion; 1891: Anthropological Religion: 1892: Theosophy or Psychological Religion
- 1892–96 John Caird The Fundamental Ideas of Christianity Vol.1&2
- 1896–98 Alexander Balmain Bruce The Moral Order of the World, The Providential Order of the World
- 1914 Arthur Balfour Theism and Humanism ISBN 1-58742-005-8
- 1916–18 Samuel Alexander Space, Time, and Deity, volume one: ISBN 0766187012, volume two: ISBN 0766187020
- 1922 Arthur Balfour Theism and Thought
- 1927–28 J. B. S. Haldane The Sciences and Philosophy, ISBN 0-404-60479-X
- 1932–34 William Temple] Nature, Man and God
- 1952-54 John Macmurray The Form of the Personal vol 1: The Self as Agent ISBN 1573923370 vol 2: Persons in Relation ISBN 1573926256
- 1959 Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker The Relevance of Science
- 1970 Richard William Southern The Rise and Fall of the Medieval System of Religious Thought
- 1985 Carl Sagan The Search for Who We Are, published in 2006 as The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God, ISBN 1-59420-107-2
- 1988 Don Cupitt Nature and Culture
- 1988 Richard Dawkins Worlds in Microcosm
- 1992 Mary Warnock Imagination and Understanding, published as Imagination and Time, ISBN 0-631-19019-8
- 1993–94 Keith Ward Religion and Revelation ISBN 0-19-826375-9 (ISBN 13: 978-0-19-826375-3)
- 1995–96 John Hedley Brooke Reconstructing Nature
- 1997–98 R J (Sam) Berry Gods, Genes, Greens and Everything
- 1999–00 Ralph McInerny Characters in Search of Their Author
- 2001 Lynne Baker The Nature and Limits of Human Understanding
- 2003–04 Simon Blackburn Reason's Empire
St Andrews
- 1902–04 Richard Haldane The Pathway to Reality, ISBN 0-404-60459-5
- 1917–18 William R. Inge The Philosophy of Plotinus, ISBN 1-59244-284-6
- 1921–22 C. Lloyd Morgan Emergent Evolution (1923) ISBN 0-40460468-4, and Life, Mind, and Spirit (1925)
- 1955–56 Werner Heisenberg Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science, ISBN 1-57392-694-9
- 1962–64 Henry Chadwick] Authority in the Early Church
- 1972–73 Alfred Ayer The Central Questions of Philosophy, ISBN 0-03-013116-2
- 1975–77 Reijer Hooykaas Fact, Faith and Fiction in the Development of Science
- 1977–78 David Stafford-Clark Myth, Magic and Denial
- 1980–81 Gregory Vlastos Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher
- 1982–83 Donald Geoffrey Charlton New Images of the Natural, 1750-1800
- 1983–84 John Macquarrie In Search of Deity
- 1984–85 Adolf Grunbaum Psychoanalytic Theory and Science
- 1986–87 Antony Flew The Logic of Mortality
- 1988–89 Walter Burkert Tracks of Biology and the Creation of Sense
- 1990–91 Hilary Putnam Renewing Philosophy
- 1992–93 Arthur Peacocke Nature, God and Humanity:
- 1992–93 Roger Penrose The Question of Physical Reality
- 1995 Nicholas Wolterstorff Thomas Reid and the Story of Epistemology
- 1996–97 Michael Dummett Thought and Reality
- 1999 Robert Merrihew Adams God and Being
- 1999 Marilyn McCord Adams The Coherence of Christology
- 2001–02 Stanley Hauerwas With the Grain of the Universe: The Church's Witness and Natural Theology, ISBN 1-58743-016-9
- 2002 Peter van Inwagen The Problem of Evil and the Argument from Evil
- 2004–05 Alvin Plantinga Science and Religion: Conflict or Concord
References
- Stanley Jaki, Lord Gifford and His Lectures: A Centenary Retrospect (1987). Scottish Academic Press, ISBN 0-7073-0465-2.
- Larry Witham, The Measure of God: Our Century-Long Struggle to Reconcile Science & Religion (2005), HarperSanFrancisco hardcover: ISBN 0-06-059191-9; reprinted as The Measure of God: History's Greatest Minds Wrestle with Reconciling Science and Religion (2006), paperback: ISBN 0-06-085833-8.
External links
- Gifford Lectures Online presents full text of many series.
