Bampton Lecture

The Bampton Lectures at the University of Oxford, England, were founded by a bequest of John Bampton. They have taken place since 1780.

They were a series of annual lectures; since the turn of the 20th century they have typically been biennial. They continue to concentrate on Christian theological topics. The lectures have traditionally been published in book form. On a number of occasions, notably at points during the 19th century, they attracted great interest and controversy.

Lecturers (incomplete list)

1780–1799

* 1780 – James Bandinel ''Eight Sermons preached before the University of Oxford''
* 1781 – Timothy Neve ''Eight Sermons preached before the University of Oxford''
* 1782 – Robert Holmes ''The Prophecies and Testimony of John the Baptist, and the parallel Prophecies of Jesus Christ''
* 1783 – John Cobbbr>''Eight sermons preached before the University of Oxford''
* 1784 – Joseph White ''Mahometism and Christianity''
* 1785 – Ralph Churton ''On the Prophecies Respecting the Destruction of Jerusalem''
* 1786 – George Croft ''Eight Sermons preached before the University of Oxford''
* 1787 – William Hawkins ''Discourses on Scripture Mysteries''
* 1788 – Richard Shepherd ''The Ground and Credibility of the Christian Religion''
* 1789 – Edward Tatham '' Chart and Scale of Truth''
* 1790 – Henry Kett ''A Representation of the Conduct and Opinions of the Primitive Christians, with Remarks on Gibbon and Priestley''
* 1791 – Robert Morresbr>''Eight sermons preached before the University of Oxford''
* 1792 – John Eveleigh ''Eight Sermons Preached before the University of Oxford''
* 1793 – James Williamson''The Truth, Inspiration, Authority, and End of the Scriptures, considered and defended''
* 1794 – Thomas Wintle ''Expediency, Prediction, and Accomplishment of the Christian Redemption Illustrated''
* 1795 – Daniel Veysie ''The Doctrine of Atonement illustrated and defended''
* 1796 – Robert Gray, ''Sermons on the Principles Upon Which the Reformation of the Church of England was Established''
* 1797 – William Finch ''Objections of Infidel Historians and Other Writers Against Christianity''
* 1798 – Charles Henry Hall ''Fulness of Time''
* 1799 – William Barrow ''Answers to some Popular Objections against the Necessity or the Credibility of the Christian Revelation''

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 ''Sermons preached before the University of Oxford''
* 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

* 1825 – George Chandler ''The Scheme of Divine Revelation Considered''
* 1826 – William Vaux ''The Benefits Annexed to a Participation in the Two Christian Sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's Supper''
* 1827 – Henry Hart Milman ''Character and Conduct of the Apostles Considered as an Evidence of Christianity''
* 1828 – Thomas Horne ''The Religious Necessity of the Reformation''
* 1829 – Edward Burton ''Inquiry into the Heresies of the Apostolic Age''
* 1830 – Henry Soames ''An inquiry into the doctrines of the Anglo-Saxon church''
* 1831 – Thomas William Lancaster ''The Popular Evidence of Christianity''
* 1832 – Renn Dickson Hampden ''The Scholastic Philosophy considered in its relation to Christian Theology''
* 1833 – Frederick Nolan ''Analogy of Revelation and Science Established''
* 1834 – Richard Laurence ''An Attempt to illustrate those Articles of the Church of England which the Calvinists improperly consider as Calvinistical''
* 1836 – Charles Atmore Ogilvie ''Eight Sermons''
* 1837 – Thomas S. L. Vogan ''The Principal Objections against the Doctrine of the Triniy''
* 1838 – Henry Arthur Woodgate ''The Authoritative Teaching of the Church''
* 1839 – William Daniel Conybeare ''An analytical examination into ... the writings of the Christian Fathers during the Ante-Nicene period''
* 1840 – Edward Hawkins ''Connected Principles''
* 1841 – Samuel Wilberforce was invited to lecture but''withdrew'' following the death of his wife Emily
* 1842 – James Garbett ''Christ, as Prophet, Priest, and King''
* 1843 – Anthony Grant ''The Past and Prospective Extension of the Gospel By Missions to the Heathen''
* 1844 – Richard Wiliam Jelf ''An inquiry into the means of grace, their mutual connection, and combined use, with especial reference to the Church of England''
* 1845 – Charles Abel Heurtley ''Justification''
* 1846 – Augustus Short ''The Witness of the Spirit with our Spirit''
* 1847 – Walter Augustus Shirley
* 1848 – Edward Garrard Marsh ''The Christian Doctrine of Sanctification''
* 1849 – Richard Michell ''The Nature and Comparative Value of the Christian Evidences''

1850–1874

* 1850 – Edward Meyrick Goulburn ''The Resurrection of the Body''
* 1851 – Henry Bristow Wilson ''The Communion of Saints''
* 1852 – Joseph Esmond Riddle ''The Natural History of Infidelity and Superstition in contrast with Christian Faith''
* 1853 – William Thomson ''The Atoning Work of Christ viewed in Relation to some Ancient Theories''
* 1854 – Samuel Waldegrave ''New Testament Millenarianism''
* 1855 – John Ernest Bode ''The Absence of Precision in the Formularies of the Church of England''
* 1856 – Edward Arthur Litton ''The Mosaic Dispensation Considered as Introductory to Christianity''
* 1857 – William Edward Jelf ''Christian Faith, Comprehensive, not Partial; Definite, not Uncertain''
* 1858 – Henry Longueville Mansel ''The Limits of Religious Thought''
* 1859 – George Rawlinson ''Historic Evidence for the Truth of the Christian Records''
* 1860 – James Augustus Hessey ''On Sunday: its Origin, History, and Present Obligation''
* 1861 – John Sandford ''The Mission and Extension of the Church at Home''
* 1862 – Adam Storey Farrarbr>''A Critical History of Free Thought in reference to the Christian Religion''
* 1863 – John Hannah ''The Relation between the Divine and Human Elements in Holy Scripture''
* 1864 – Thomas Dehany Bernardbr>''The Progress of Doctrine in the New Testament''
* 1865 – James Bowling Mozley ''Miracles''
* 1866 – Henry Parry Liddon ''The Divinity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ''
* 1867 – Edward Garbett ''Dogmatic Faith, an inquiry into the relation subsisting between revelation and dogma''
* 1868 – George Moberly ''The Administration of the Holy Spirit in the Body of Christ''
* 1869 – Robert Payne Smith ''Prophecy a Preparation for Christ''
* 1870 – William Josiah Irons ''Christianity as Taught by St. Paul''
* 1871 – George Herbert Curteis ''Dissent, in Its Relation to the Church of England''
* 1872 – John Richard Turner Eaton ''The Permanence of Christianity''
* 1873 – Isaac Gregory Smith ''Characteristics of Christian Morality''
* 1874 – Stanley Leathes ''The Religion of the Christ''

1875–1899

* 1875 – William Jackson, FSA Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford ''The Doctrine of Retribution''
* 1876 – William Alexander ''The Witness of the Psalms to Christ and Christianity''
* 1877 – Charles Adolphus Row ''Christian evidences viewed in relation to modern thought''
* 1878 – Charles Henry Hamilton Wright ''Zechariah and his Prophecies Considered in Relation to Modern Criticism''
* 1879 – Henry Wace ''The Foundations of Faith''
* 1880 – Edwin Hatch ''The Origin of Early Christian Churches''
* 1881 – John Wordsworth ''The One Religion: truth, holiness and peace desired by the nations, and revealed by Jesus Christ''
* 1882 – Peter Goldsmith Medd ''The One Mediator''
* 1883 – William Henry Fremantle ''The World as the Subject of Redemption''
* 1884 – Frederick Temple ''The Relations between Religion and Science''
* 1885 – Frederic William Farrar ''The History of Interpretation''
* 1886 – Charles Bigg ''The Christian Platonists of Alexandria''
* 1887 – William Boyd Carpenter ''Permanent Elements of Religion''
* 1888 – Robert Edward Bartlett ''The Letter and the Spirit''
* 1889 – Thomas Kelly Cheyne ''The Origin and Contents of the Psalter''
* 1890 – Henry William Watkins ''Modern Criticism considered in its Relation to the Fourth Gospel''
* 1891 – Charles Gore ''The Incarnation of the Son of God''
* 1892 – Alfred Barry ''Some Light of Science on the Faith''
* 1893 – William Sanday ''Inspiration''
* 1894 – John Richardson Illingworth ''Personality, Human and Divine''
* 1895 – Thomas Banks Strong ''Christian Ethics''
* 1897 – Robert Lawrence Ottley ''Aspects of the Old Testament''
* 1899 – William Ralph Inge ''Christian Mysticism''
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1900–1949

* 1901 – Archibald Robertson ''Regnum Dei''
* 1903 – William Holden Hutton ''The Influence of Christianity Upon National Character''
* 1905 – Frederick William Bussell ''Christian Theology and Social Progress''
* 1907 – James Hamilton Francis Peile ''Reproach of the Gospel: An Inquiry into the Apparent Failure of Christianity''
* 1909 – Walter Hobhouse ''Church and the World: in Idea and in History''
* 1911 – John Huntley Skrine ''Creed and the Creeds: Their Function in Religion''
* 1913 – George Edmundson ''The Church in Rome in the First Century''
* 1915 – Hastings Rashdall ''The Idea of Atonement in Christian Theology''
* 1920 – Arthur Cayley Headlam ''Doctrine of the Church and Christian Reunion''
* 1922 – Leighton Pullanbr>''Religion Since the Reformation''
* 1924 – Norman Powell Williams ''The Ideas of the Fall and of Original Sin''
* 1926 – Alfred Edward John Rawlinson ''New Testament Doctrine of the Christ''
* 1928 – Kenneth E. Kirk ''The Vision of God: The Christian Doctrine of the Summum Bonum''
* 1930 – Laurence Grenstedbr>''Psychology and God''
a study of the implications of recent psychology for religious belief and practice
* 1932 – B. H. Streeter ''Buddha and the Christ''
* 1934 – Robert Henry Lightfoot ''History and Interpretation in the Gospels''
* 1936 – Frank Herbert Brabant ''Time and eternity in Christian thought''
* 1938 – Alfred Guillaume ''Prophecy and Divination among the Hebrews and other Semites''
* 1940 – George Leonard Prestige ''Fathers and Heretics''
* 1942 – Trevor Gervase Jallandbr>''The Church and the Papacy: a Historical Study''
* 1944 – Spencer Leeson ''Christian Education''
* 1946 – Philip Arthur Micklem ''The Secular and the Sacred

* 1948 – Austin Farrer ''The Glass of Vision''

1950–1999

* 1952 – Robert Leslie Pollington Milburn ''Early Christian Interpretations of History''
* 1954 – Henry Ernest William Turner ''The Pattern of Christian Truth: A Study in the Relations Between Orthodoxy and Heresy in the Early Church''
* 1955 – Thomas Maynard Parker ''Christianity and the State in the Light of History''
* 1956 – E. L. Mascall ''Christian Theology and Natural Science: Some Questions on their Relations''
* 1958 – John Gordon Davies ''He Ascended Into Heaven''
* 1960 - Eric Waldram Kemp "Counsel and Consent"
* 1962 – Alan Richardson ''History Sacred and Profane''
* 1964 – Stephen Neill ''Church and Christian Union''
* 1966 – David Edward Jenkins ''The Glory of Man''
* 1968 – Frederick William Dillistone ''Traditional Symbols and the Contemporary World''
* 1970 – Cheslyn Jones ''Christ and Christianity: a study in origins in the light of St Paul''
* 1972 – Howard E. Root "The Limits of Radicalism"
* 1974 – Peter Baelz ''The Forgotten Dream: Experience, Hope and God''
* 1976 – Geoffrey W. H. Lampe ''God As Spirit''
* 1978 – A. R. Peacocke ''Creation and the World of Science''
* 1980 – Anthony E. Harvey ''Jesus and the Constraints of History''
* 1982 – Peter Hinchcliff ''Holiness and Politics''
* 1984 – J. A. T. Robinson ''The Priority of John''
* 1986 – Maurice Wiles ''God's Action in the World''
* 1988 – John Barton "People of the Book?"
* 1990 – Alister E. McGrath ''Genesis of Doctrine: a Study in the Foundations of Doctrinal Criticism''
* 1992 – Colin Gunton ''The One, the Three and the Many: God, Creation and the Culture of Modernity''
* 1994 – Eric William Heaton ''The School Tradition of the Old Testament''
* 1996 – Ursula King ''Christ in All Things: Exploring Spirituality With Teilhard De Chardin''

2000–present

* 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
** ''From pondering scripture to the first principles of Christian Theology''
** ''From cosmology to doxology: reading Genesis alongside Plato and Darwin''
** ''From creation to re-creation: nature and the naked ape''
** ''From image to likeness: incarnation and theosis''
** ''From Adam and Eve to Mary and Christ: sin, redemption, atonement''
** ''From inspiration to sanctification: the spirit of wisdom and holiness''
** ''From the Church to Mary: towards a critical ecumenism''
** ''From dogma to theoria: God as Trinity''
* 2013 – Michael Banner ''Imagining life: Christ and the human condition''
* 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'
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* 2021 - Jessica Martin "Four-Dimensional Eucharist"

See also

* Hulsean Lectures

References

External links

Bampton Lectures
from Project Canterbury with links to all known online Bampton Lectures



General bibliography, good source for Bampton Lectures volumes (PDF)

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1780 establishments in England
Recurring events established in 1780
Lecture series at the University of Oxford
Christian theological lectures
Lists of clerics