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Christian theological lecture series

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The Bampton Lectures at the University of Oxford, England, were founded by a bequest of John Bampton. They have taken place since 1780. On a number of occasions, especially in the 19th century, they attracted great interest and controversy.

Originally a series of lectures was held annually. In 1896 the income from the agricultural estate which formed the original bequest had reduced so much that the year's lectures were cancelled; since then they have usually been every two years. They continue to concentrate on Christian theological topics. It is a condition of the Bampton Bequest that the lectures are published by the lecturer; they have traditionally been published in book form, and recent ones are available as video recordings.

Lecturers (incomplete list)

Links to the text of some of the lectures up to 1920 are available at the Project Canterbury Web site.

1780–1799

1800–1824

  • 1800 – George Richards The Divine Origin of Prophecy Illustrated and Defended
  • 1801 – George Stanley Faber Horae Mosaicae
  • 1802 – George Frederic Nott Religious Enthusiasm
  • 1803 – John Farrer Sermons on the Mission and Character of Christ and on the Beatitudes
  • 1804 – Richard Laurence An attempt to illustrate those articles of the Church of England, which the Calvinists improperly consider as Calvinistical
  • 1805 – Edward Nares A View of the Evidences of Christianity at the End of the Pretended Age of Reason
  • 1806 – John Browne, Fellow of Corpus Christi College Eight un-named sermons
  • 1807 – Thomas Le Mesurier The Nature and Guilt of Schism
  • 1808 – John Penrose An Attempt to Prove the Truth of Christianity
  • 1809 – John Bayley Somers Carwithen A view of the Brahminical religion
  • 1810 – Thomas Falconer *Certain Principles in Evanson's Dissonance of the 'Four generally received Evangelists' *
  • 1811 – John Bidlake The Truth and Consistency of Divine Revelation
  • 1812 – Richard Mant An Appeal to the Gospel
  • 1813 – John Collinson A Key to the Writings of the Principal Fathers of the Christian Church who flourished during the first three centuries
  • 1814 – William Van Mildert The General Principles of Scripture-Interpretation
  • 1815 – Reginald Heber The Personality and Office of the Christian Comforter
  • 1816 – John Hume Spry Christian Union Doctrinally and Historically Considered
  • 1817 – John Miller The Divine Authority of Holy Scripture
  • 1818 – Charles Abel Moysey The Doctrines of Unitarians Examined
  • 1819 – Hector Davies Morgan A Compressed View of the Religious Principles and Practices of the Age
  • 1820 – Godfrey Faussett The Claims of the Established Church to exclusive attachment and support, and the Dangers which menace her from Schism and Indifference, considered
  • 1821 – John Jones The Moral Tendency of Divine Revelation
  • 1822 – Richard Whately The Use and Abuse of Party Feeling in Matters of Religion
  • 1823 – Charles Goddard The Mental Condition Necessary to a due Inquiry into Religious Evidence
  • 1824 – John Josias Conybeare An Attempt to Trace the History and to Ascertain the Limits of the Secondary and Spiritual Interpretation of Scripture

1825–1849

1850–1874

1875–1899

1900–1949

1950–1999

Since 2000

Video recordings of the most recent years' lectures are available via links to YouTube.

  • 2000 – John Habgood Varieties of Unbelief
  • 2001 – David Fergusson Church, State and Civil Society
  • 2003 – Oliver O'Donovan The Ways of Judgment
  • 2005 – Paul S. Fiddes Seeing the world and knowing God: ancient wisdom and modern doctrine
  • 2007 – Raymond Plant Religion, Citizenship and Liberal Pluralism
  • 2009 – Richard Parish Catholic Particularity in Seventeenth-Century French Writing: Christianity is Strange
  • 2011 – Frances Young God's Presence: A Contemporary Recapitulation Of Early Christianity{{cite web | title = Lectures and Seminars, Hilary term 2011 | work = Oxford University Gazette Supplement (1) to No 4938 Vol 141 | publisher = University of Oxford | date = 2011-01-12 | url = http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/global/wwwoxacuk/localsites/gazette/documents/supplements2010-11/Lectures_and_Seminars,_Hilary_Term_2011.pdf | access-date = 2013-04-21}}
  • 2013 – Michael Banner Imagining life: Christ and the human condition{{cite web | title = Lectures and Seminars, Hilary term 2013 | work = Oxford University Gazette Supplement (1) to No 5009 Vol 143 | publisher = University of Oxford | date = 2013-01-09 | url = http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/global/wwwoxacuk/localsites/gazette/documents/supplements2012-13/Lectures_and_Seminars,Hilary_term_2013%281%29_to_No_5009.pdf | access-date = 2013-04-21}}
  • 2015 – David F. Ford, Daring Spirit: John's Gospel Now
  • 2017 – George Pattison A Phenomenology of the Devout Life
  • 2019 – Peter Harrison Rethinking Relations Between Science and Religion YouTube Published as Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age
  • 2021 – Jessica Martin Four-Dimensional Eucharist
  • 2022 - Alec Ryrie The age of Hitler, and how we can escape it
  • 2023 - Willie James Jennings Jesus and the Displaced: Christology and the Redemption of Habitation
  • 2024 - Rowan Williams Recognizing Strangers: Solidarity and Christian Ethics
  • 2025 - Wil Gafney Wading in the Word: Womanist Biblical Interpretation

References

References

  1. "Bampton Lectures (Nuttall Encyclopædia)".
  2. (11 April 1896). "Bampton Lectures". Mid Surrey Times And General Advertiser.
  3. "Bampton Lectures".
  4. ''Dictionary of National Biography'', article Holmes, Robert (1748–1805).
  5. (1784). "A comparison of Islam and Christianity in their history, their evidence and their effects".
  6. Lloyd, Gareth. (February 2000). "THE METHODIST ARCHIVES BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX, section Edward Tatham".
  7. link. (2007-09-27 .)
  8. ''Nares used de Luc to support a conservative stance in his 1805 Bamptons, which was still sympathetic to geology unlike his later works.'' [https://archive.today/20061002053823/http://scibel.gospelcom.net/content/scibelarticles.php?id=52 Archive.org], 2006.
  9. Browne, John. (1809). "Sermons preached before the University of Oxford in the year 1806, at the lecture founded by the Rev. John Bampton, M.A. late Canon of Salisbury". Oxford: The University Press, for the author.
  10. Against the views of [[Edward Evanson]]. [http://www.biblicalfoundations.org/pdf/Studies2.pdf PDF] {{webarchive. link. (2007-09-28 , pp. 26–29.)
  11. [https://archive.org/details/keytowritingsofp00coll ''A Key to the Writings of the Principal Fathers of the Christian Church who flourished during the first three centuries''].
  12. [https://biography.wales/article/s-MORG-DAV-1785 Dictionary of Welsh Biography], [[The National Library of Wales]].
  13. ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]'', Goddard, Charles (1769/70–1848), Church of England clergyman by W. M. Jacob.
  14. [https://archive.org/details/bamptonlecturesf00cony Internet Archive].
  15. Strongly attacked by [[John Henry Newman]]'s pamphlet ''Elucidations of Dr. Hampden's Theological Statements''[http://anglicanhistory.org/pusey/liddon/1.16.html Anglican History].
  16. [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/printable/29385Oxford Dictionary of National Biography].
  17. [https://archive.org/details/justificationeig00heur ''Justification''].
  18. [https://www.whistonweb.co.uk/history/shirley.htm Bishop Shirley died, having given only two of the lectures] {{webarchive. link. (May 9, 2008)
  19. "EvanTheo2".
  20. ''[[Concise Dictionary of National Biography]]''.
  21. "Lecture 5: REBELS – John Darby, Joseph Smith, John Brown".
  22. Olsen, Stein Haugom. "HUGH MACCOLL—VICTORIAN".
  23. (10 March 2003). "Wright, George Frederick". Christian Classics Ethereal Library, [[Calvin College]].
  24. Gregory, Frederick. (1995). "Science and Religion in Western History". History of Science Society.
  25. ''For many years the Bampton Lectures at Oxford had been considered as adding steadily and strongly to the bulwarks of the old orthodoxy. [...] But now there was an evident change. The departures from the old paths were many and striking, until at last, in 1893, came the lectures on ''Inspiration'' by the Rev. Dr. Sanday, Ireland Professor of Exegesis in the University of Oxford. In these, concessions were made to the newer criticism, which at an earlier time would have driven the lecturer not only out of the Church but out of any decent position in society ...''[https://lachlan.bluehaze.com.au/1860-essays-reviews/a-d-white.html] {{webarchive. link. (February 15, 2016)
  26. (2018). "Theological Radicalism and Tradition: 'The Limits of Radicalism' with Appendices". Routledge.
  27. "The Bampton Lectures". University Church of St Mary the Virgin.
  28. as described in the [https://archive.today/20130705003546/http://fs.oxfordjournals.org/content/66/3/396.extract ''French Studies''] OUP 2011,
  29. "Towards a phenomenology of the devout life".
  30. "Rethinking Relations Between Science and Religion".
  31. "The Bampton Lectures, section 2024: Recognizing Strangers: Solidarity and Christian Ethics". University Church of St Mary the Virgin.

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