Bampton Lectures

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

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

A similar series of Bampton Lectures in America are given at Columbia University.^[2]

1 Lecturers (incomplete list)
2 Bampton Lectures in America at Columbia University
3 Notes
4 External links

[edit] Lecturers (incomplete list)

[edit] 1780-1799

1780 - James Bandinel
1781 - Timothy Neve
1782 - Robert Holmes
1783 - John Cobb
1784 - Joseph White Mahometism and Christianity^[3]
1785 - Ralph Churton On the Prophecies Respecting the Destruction of Jerusalem
1786 - George Croft
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[13]
1790 - Henry Kett
1791 - Robert Morres
1792 - John Everleigh
1793 - James Williamson
1794 - Thomas Wintle Expediency, Prediction, and Accomplishment of the Christian Redemption Illustrated
1795 - Daniel Veysie
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
1799 - William Barrow

[edit] 1800-1824

1800 - George Richards The Divine Origin of Prophecy Illustrated and Defended
1801 - George Stanley Faber Horae Mosaicae^[4]
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^[5]
1806 - John Browne
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
1814 - William Van Mildert The General Principles of Scripture-Interpretation^[6]
1815 - Reginald Heber The Personality and Office of the Christian Comforts
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
1820 - Godfrey Fausset
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
1824 - John Josias Conybeare

[edit] 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
1832 - Renn Dickson Hampden The Scholastic Philosophy considered in its relation to Christian Theology^[7]
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
1840 - Edward Hawkins Connected Principles
1841 - Samuel Wilberforce
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 - R. W. Jelf An inquiry into the means of grace, their mutual connection, and combined use, with especial reference to the Church of England
1845 - Charles P. Heurtley Justification
1846 - Augustus Short The Witness of the Spirit with our Spirit
1847 - Walter Augustus Shirley^[8]
1848 - Edward Garrard Marsh The Christian Doctrine of Sanctification^[9]
1849 - Richard Michell The Nature and Comparative Value of the Christian Evidences^[10]

[edit] 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^[11]
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 Farrar A Critical History of Free Thought in reference to the Christian Religion
1863 - J. Hannah The Relation between the Divine and Human Elements in Holy Scripture
1864 - Thomas Dehany Bernard Progress of Doctrine in the New Testament
1865 - James Bowling Mozley Miracles^[12]
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 - I. Gregory Smith Characteristics of Christian Morality
1874 - Stanley Leathes The Religion of the Christ

[edit] 1875-1899

1875 - William Jackson The Doctrine of Retribution
1876 - William Alexander The Witness of the Psalms to Christ and Christianity
1877 - C. A. Row Christian evidences viewed in relation to modern thought
1878 - Charles Henry Hamilton Wright Zechariah and his Prophecies Considered in Relation to Modern Criticism[14]
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 - P. G. Medd The One Mediator
1883 - William Henry Fremantle The World as the Subject of Redemption
1884 - Frederick Temple The Relations between Religion and Science^[13]
1885 - Frederic William Farrar The History of Interpretation
1886 - Charles Bigg The Christian Platonists of Alexandria
1887 - 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 - W. Sanday Inspiration^[14]
1894 - J. R. Illingworth Personality, Human and Divine
1895 - T. B. Strong Christian Ethics
1897 - Robert Lawrence Ottley Aspects of the Old Testament
1899 - William Ralph Inge Christian Mysticism (online text)

[edit] 1900-1949

1901 - Archibald Robertson Regnum Dei
1903 - William Holden Hutton The Influence of Christianity Upon National Character
1905 - F. W. Bussell Christian Theology and Social Progress
1907 - J. H. F. Peile Reproach of the Gospel: An Inquiry into the Apparent Failure of Christianity
1909 - W. 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 - A. C. Headlam Doctrine of the Church and Christian Reunion
1922 - L. 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 - L. W. 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 Church and the Papacy: a Historical Study
1944 - S. Leeson Christian Education
1946 - Philip Arthur Micklem The Secular and the Sacred[15]
1948 - Austin Farrer The Glass of Vision

[edit] 1950-1999

1952 - R. L. P. Milburn Early Christian Interpretations of History
1954 - H. E. W. 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 - J. G. Davies He Ascended Into Heaven
1962 - Alan Richardson History Sacred and Profane
1964 - Stephen Neill Church and Christian Union
1966 - David Edward Jenkins The Glory of Man
1968 - F. W. Dillistone Traditional Symbols and the Contemporary World
1974 - P. Baelz Forgotten Dream: Experience, Hope and God
1976 - Geoffrey W. H. Lampe God As Spirit ISBN 0-19-826644-8
1978 - A. R. Peacocke Creation and the World of Science
1980 - Anthony E. Harvey Jesus and the Constraints of History
1984 - J. A. T. Robinson The Priority of John
1986 - Maurice Wiles God's Action in the World
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 ISBN 0-521-42184-5
1994 - Eric William Heaton The School Tradition of the Old Testament
1996 - Ursula King Christ in All Things: Exploring Spirituality With Teilhard De Chardin ISBN 1-57075-115-3

[edit] 2000-

2000 - John Habgood Varieties of Unbelief
2001 - David Fergusson Church, State and Civil Society ISBN 0-521-52959-X
2005 - Paul S. Fiddes Seeing the world and knowing God: ancient wisdom and modern doctrine
2007 - announced as Raymond Plant Religion, Citizenship and Liberal Pluralism

[edit] Bampton Lectures in America at Columbia University

(3) 1950 - C. H. Dodd Gospel and Law: The Relation of Faith and Ethics in Early Christianity
(4) 1951 - Lewis Mumford Art and Technics
(5) 1952 - James B. Conant Modern Science and Modern Man
(6) 1953 - Alan Gregg Challenges to Contemporary Medicine
(7) 1954 - John Baillie The Idea of Revelation in Recent Thought
(8) 1955 - Lionello Venturi Four Steps Toward Modern Art
(9) 1956 - Joel H. Hildebrand Science in the Making
(10) 1957 - Brock Chisholm Prescription for Survival
(12) 1959 - Anthony Blunt The Art of William Blake
(13) W. Barry Wood From Miasmas to Molecules
(14) 1962 - Paul Tillich Christianity and the Encounter of the World Religions
(15) Northrop Frye A Natural Perspective: The Development of Shakespearean Comedy and Romance
(17) 1966 - Fred Hoyle Man in the Universe
(18) Alasdair C. MacIntyre The Religious Significance of Atheism
(19) 1968 - John Newenham Summerson Victorian Architecture: Four Studies in Evaluation
(20) Jacob Bronowski Magic, Science, and Civilization
(21) 1976 - Titian: His World and His Legacy
(22) 1977? - Anthony Kenny Faith and Reason
1983 - Steven Weinberg
(28) 1986 - Zellig Sabbetai Harris Language and Information
1988 - Robert Gallo
(29) 1991 - James Cahill The Painter's Practice: How Artists Lived and Worked in Traditional China
(33) 2001 - Archbishop Demetrios
2003 - Oliver O'Donovan The Ways of Judgment

Paul Ramsey Ethics at the Edges of Life: Medical and Legal Intersections
Paul Ricoeur, George H. Taylor, Lectures on Ideology and Utopia

[edit] Notes

^ [1]. 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]. Date accessed: 20 December 2006.
^ These are supported by a bequest of Ada Byron Bampton Tremaine.
^ [3]; in book form as A comparison of Islam and Christianity in their history, their evidence and their effects (1784).
^ His 1801 Bampton Lectures Horae Mosaicae make one tantalising reference to geology "while the bowels of the earth are ransacked to convince the literary world of the erroneousness of the Mosaical Chronology."[4] In volume I Faber argued that pagan accounts of creation, the Deluge, and the period from the Deluge to the Exodus confirmed the truth of Moses’ writings.[5], note 219.
^ Nares used de Luc to support a conservative stance in his 1805 Bamptons, which was still sympathetic to geology unlike his later works.[6]
^ He affirmed that correct interpretation depended on a due reverence for Scripture as a work of divine inspiration and on a willingness to obey and believe what was learned from Scripture. He insisted on the absolute authority of Scripture over tradition (especially the Catholic Church and Pope), human reason, and supposed direct communications from God; Scripture must be interpreted from Scripture.[7]
^ Strongly attacked by John Henry Newman's pamphlet Elucidations of Dr. Hampden's Theological Statements[8].
^ Bishop Shirley died, having given only two of the lectures.[9]
^ The Bampton Lectures for 1848 were given by another Evangelical, Edward G. Marsh, a former Fellow of Oriel, and now incumbent of Aylesford, Kent.[10]
^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography
^ After one of the most comprehensive and learned reviews of the history of the doctrine, he came out infavor of a qualified millennialist view. Papal Rome is certainly the mystical Babylon, and although its fall has not yet truly taken place, it is shortly to be expected. ((PDF)
^ The book is the last statement, by a great English Protestant theologian, of a world of divinity which henceforth vanished except in the scholastic manuals. (PDF)
^ In his Bampton Lectures of 1884 he defended the proposition that the physical operation of the universe was determined, implying that God does not interfere with it. Temple asserted that God's superintendence of the world, including the evolution of life, was guaranteed through God's original creative decree. In his view the theory of evolution left the argument for an intelligent creator stronger than before.[11]
^ 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 ...[12]

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