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Bampton Lectures

For the lectures at Columbia University, see Bampton Lectures (Columbia University).

The Bampton Lectures at the University of Oxford, England, were founded by a bequest of John Bampton.[1] They have taken place since 1780.

Philip Micklem (1876–1965), an Anglican priest who delivered the 1946 Bampton Lectures

They were a series of annual lectures; since the turn of the 20th century they have sometimes been biennial. 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. On a number of occasions, notably at points during the 19th century, they attracted great interest and controversy.

Lecturers (incomplete list)

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Links to the text of some of the lectures up to 1920 are available at the Project Canterbury Web site.[2]

1780–1799

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1800–1824

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  • 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[7]
  • 1806 – John Browne, Fellow of Corpus Christi College Eight un-named sermons[8]
  • 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' [9]
  • 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 [10]
  • 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[11]
  • 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[12] 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[13]

1825–1849

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1850–1874

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1875–1899

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1900–1949

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  • 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 Pullan 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 ISBN 0-8192-2087-6
  • 1930 – Laurence Grensted 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 ISBN 0-281-00452-8
  • 1942 – Trevor Gervase Jalland The Church and the Papacy: a Historical Study
  • 1944 – Spencer Leeson Christian Education
  • 1946 – Philip Arthur Micklem The Secular and the Sacred[2]
  • 1948 – Austin Farrer The Glass of Vision

1950–1999

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Since 2000

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Video recordings of the most recent years' lectures are available via links to YouTube.[26]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Bampton Lectures (Nuttall Encyclopædia)". WOBO. Retrieved 20 February 2024. Bampton bequeathed funds for the annual preaching of eight divinity lecture sermons on the leading articles of the Christian faith, of which 30 copies are to be printed for distribution among the heads of houses.
  2. ^ "Bampton Lectures". Project Canterbury. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
  3. ^ Dictionary of National Biography, article Holmes, Robert (1748–1805).
  4. ^ A comparison of Islam and Christianity in their history, their evidence and their effects. 1784.
  5. ^ Lloyd, Gareth (February 2000). "THE METHODIST ARCHIVES BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX, section Edward Tatham". John Rylands University Library of Manchester. Archived from the original on 11 February 2001.
  6. ^ Biography: Anonymous on Rev. Henry Kett Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine.
  7. ^ Nares used de Luc to support a conservative stance in his 1805 Bamptons, which was still sympathetic to geology unlike his later works. Archive.org, 2006.
  8. ^ 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 – via Internet Archive.
  9. ^ Against the views of Edward Evanson. PDF Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine, pp. 26–29.
  10. ^ A Key to the Writings of the Principal Fathers of the Christian Church who flourished during the first three centuries.
  11. ^ Dictionary of Welsh Biography, The National Library of Wales.
  12. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Goddard, Charles (1769/70–1848), Church of England clergyman by W. M. Jacob.
  13. ^ Internet Archive.
  14. ^ Strongly attacked by John Henry Newman's pamphlet Elucidations of Dr. Hampden's Theological StatementsAnglican History.
  15. ^ Dictionary of National Biography.
  16. ^ Justification.
  17. ^ Bishop Shirley died, having given only two of the lectures Archived May 9, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  18. ^ "EvanTheo2". Archived from the original on 5 February 2012.
  19. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography.
  20. ^ Lecture 5: REBELS – John Darby, Joseph Smith, John Brown (PDF) (Report). p. 4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 September 2006.
  21. ^ Olsen, Stein Haugom. HUGH MACCOLL—VICTORIAN (PDF) (Report). p. 30. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 February 2007.
  22. ^ "Wright, George Frederick". Christian Classics Ethereal Library, Calvin College. 10 March 2003.
  23. ^ Gregory, Frederick (1995). "Science and Religion in Western History". History of Science Society. Archived from the original on 8 February 2007.
  24. ^ 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 ...[1] Archived February 15, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
  25. ^ Published as Root, Howard Eugene; Brewer, Christopher R. (2018). Theological Radicalism and Tradition: 'The Limits of Radicalism' with Appendices. London, New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-09246-4.
  26. ^ a b c d e "The Bampton Lectures". University Church of St Mary the Virgin.
  27. ^ as described in the French Studies OUP 2011,
  28. ^ "Lectures and Seminars, Hilary term 2011" (PDF). Oxford University Gazette Supplement (1) to No 4938 Vol 141. University of Oxford. 12 January 2011. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
  29. ^ "Lectures and Seminars, Hilary term 2013" (PDF). Oxford University Gazette Supplement (1) to No 5009 Vol 143. University of Oxford. 9 January 2013. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
  30. ^ "Towards a phenomenology of the devout life". University of Oxford. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  31. ^ "Rethinking Relations Between Science and Religion". Retrieved 20 March 2019.
  32. ^ "The Bampton Lectures, section 2024: Recognizing Strangers: Solidarity and Christian Ethics". University Church of St Mary the Virgin. Series of 4 lectures by Rowan Williams, 27 February and 6 March 2024, with links to video recordings.
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