Bampton Lectures

Links to the text of some of the lectures up to 1920 are available at the Project Canterbury Web site. 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 Cobb 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 Morres 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 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 • 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 Trinity • 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 Farrar 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 Bernard 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 (online text) 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 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 • 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 • 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* 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 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'' • 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 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paTZeJjH43Y YouTube Published as Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age • 2021 – Jessica Martin Four-Dimensional Eucharist • 2025 - Wil Gafney Wading in the Word: Womanist Biblical Interpretation ==See also==