Bampton Lectures

The Bampton Lectures at the University of Oxford, England, 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 20th 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 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
• 1782 – Robert Holmes^[2]
• 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^[4]
• 1790 – Henry Kett^[5] A Representation of the Conduct and Opinions of the Primitive Christians, with Remarks on Gibbon and Priestley
• 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 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^[6]
• 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
• 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' ^[8]
• 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^[9]
• 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^[10]
• 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^[11] 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^[12]

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^[13]
• 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 Abel Heurtley Justification
• 1846 – Augustus Short The Witness of the Spirit with our Spirit
• 1847 – Walter Augustus Shirley^[14]
• 1848 – Edward Garrard Marsh The Christian Doctrine of Sanctification^[15]
• 1849 – Richard Michell The Nature and Comparative Value of the Christian Evidences^[16]

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^[17]
• 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^[18]
• 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

1875–1899

• 1875 – William Jackson^{[disambiguation needed ]} 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^[19]
• 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^[20]
• 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^[21]
• 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)

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 – Burnett Hillman 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[13]
• 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
• 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
• 1974 – Peter Baelz The 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

2000–

• 2000 – John Habgood Varieties of Unbelief
• 2001 – David Fergusson Church, State and Civil Society ISBN 0-521-52959-X
• 2003 – Oliver O'Donovan The Ways of Judgment ISBN 978-0-8028-2920-7
• 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, Le cristianisme est étrange: Christian particularity in writing of the French 17th century^[22]

Notes

External links

• Bampton Lectures from Project Canterbury with links to all known online Bampton Lectures
• [14]
• General bibliography, good source for Bampton Lectures volumes (PDF)