William Belden Noble Lectures is an American series of annual presentations by accomplished individuals, held at Harvard University. The Lectures were established in 1898 through a bequest by Nannie Yulee Noble in memory of her husband, a divinity student who died while preparing for the ministry. Speakers deliver a systematized collection of lectures on a theme of

Christian Christians () are people who follow or adhere to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. The words ''Christ'' and ''Christian'' derive from the Koine Greek title ''Christós'' (Χρι ...

thought. According to the terms of the bequest: “The object of the Founder of the Lectures is to continue the mission of her husband, whose supreme desire was to extend the influence of Jesus as ‘the Way, the Truth, and the Life,’ and to illustrate and enforce the words of Jesus — ‘I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly.’ The Founder has in view the presentation of the personality of Jesus as given in the New Testament, or unfolded in the history of the Christian Church, or illustrated in the inward experience of His followers, or as the inspiration to Christian Missions for the conversion of the world. The scope of the Lectures is believed to be as wide as the highest interests of humanity.”

Lecturers

* 1898 - Francis G. Peabody * 1899 – George Herbert Palmer * 1900 – William Henry Fremantle * 1904 – William Boyd Carpenter * 1907 – Charles Henry Brent * 1909 – Henry Churchill King * 1910 – Theodore Roosevelt * 1911 –

Wilfred Thomason Grenfell Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (28 February 1865 – 9 October 1940) was a British medical missionary to Newfoundland, who wrote books on his work and other topics. Early life and education He was born at Parkgate, Cheshire, England, on 28 Febr ...

* 1911 – John Neville Figgis * 1924 –

Arthur Cayley Headlam Arthur Cayley Headlam (2 August 1862 – 17 January 1947) was an English theologian who served as Bishop of Gloucester from 1923 to 1945. Biography Headlam was born in Whorlton, County Durham, the son of its vicar, Arthur William Headlam (1826 ...

* 1925 –

Henry Major Henry Dewsbury Alves "Hal" Major, (28 July 1871 – 26 January 1961) was a New Zealand Anglican clergyman and theologian. He was Principal of Ripon Hall, Oxford from 1919 to 1948: first, when it was Ripon Clergy College in Ripon, Yorkshire ...

* 1957 – Alexander "Lex" Miller * 1968 – Harvey Cox *1969 – Frederick Buechner (lectures published under title, '' The Alphabet of Grace,'' in 1970) *

Eugene McCarthy Eugene Joseph McCarthy (March 29, 1916December 10, 2005) was an American politician, writer, and academic from Minnesota. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1949 to 1959 and the United States Senate from 1959 to 1971. ...

* 1981 – Dr Edward D.A. Hulmes, (see www.edwardhulmes.co.uk) * 1982 –

Robert N. Bellah Robert Neelly Bellah (February 23, 1927 – July 30, 2013) was an American sociologist and the Elliott Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He was internationally known for his work related to the sociology of reli ...

* Archbishop Robert Runcie of Canterbury * Hans Küng * 1995 – J. Barrie Shepherd *

Paul Tillich Paul Johannes Tillich (August 20, 1886 – October 22, 1965) was a German-American Christian existentialist philosopher, religious socialist, and Lutheran Protestant theologian who is widely regarded as one of the most influential theologi ...

(schedule for 1995, but died before the date) * 1998 –

Armand Nicholi Armand M. Nicholi Jr. (October 18, 1927 – June 22, 2017) was a clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital. His clinical work and research focused on the impact of absent parents on the emot ...

* 2000 – John Shelby Spong * 2003 –

Francis S. Collins Francis Sellers Collins (born April 14, 1950) is an American physician-geneticist who discovered the genes associated with a number of diseases and led the Human Genome Project. He is the former director of the National Institutes of Health ( ...

* 2004 –

Dr. Tim Johnson G. Timothy Johnson (born July 9, 1936) is an American academic, pastor, physician, television journalist, and writer who, as "Dr. Tim Johnson", is known to television viewers as the longtime Chief Medical Correspondent for ''ABC News'' on the ...

* 2005 – Owen Gingerich * 2006 – N. T. Wright * 2013 – Janet McKenzie * 2014 – Joshua DuBois * 2015 - Stanley Nelson * 2016 – Marilynne Robinson * 2019 - Rev. Raphael Warnock * 2022 - John Green * 2022 - Dr. Norman Wirzba"William Belden Noble Lecture Series: Professor Norman Wirzba"
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Michelstein, Erica R. "Nicholi Lectures on Moral Law". ''The Harvard Crimson'' (October 6, 1998)
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"Harvard's Noble Lectures". ''Pietisten'' (Winter 2004–2005)
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"Theologian, Anglican Bishop Wright to deliver Belden Noble Lectures". ''Harvard University Gazette'' (October 12, 2006)
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Nicholas Thomas Wright Nicholas Thomas Wright (born 1 December 1948), known as N. T. Wright or Tom Wright, is an English New Testament scholar, Pauline theologian and Anglican bishop. He was the bishop of Durham from 2003 to 2010. He then became research profe ...

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"Joshua DuBois, Former Pastor-In-Chief, Lectures on Faith in Politics". "The Harvard Crimson" (April 7, 2014)
(guest speaker Joshua DuBois) Christian theological lectures Harvard University 1898 establishments in Massachusetts