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Bampton Lectures

Bampton Lectures

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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 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[2] 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[3]
  • 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[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 Eight sermons preached before the University of Oxford
  • 1792 – John Eveleigh Eight Sermons Preached before the University of Oxford
  • 1793 – James WilliamsonThe 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[6]
  • 1806 – John Browne, Fellow of Corpus Christi College Sermons preached before the University of Oxford[7]
  • 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 who flourished during the first three centuries [9]
  • 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[10]
  • 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[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 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 butwithdrew[14] 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[15]
  • 1846 – Augustus Short The Witness of the Spirit with our Spirit
  • 1847 – Walter Augustus Shirley[16]
  • 1848 – Edward Garrard Marsh The Christian Doctrine of Sanctification[17]
  • 1849 – Richard Michell The Nature and Comparative Value of the Christian Evidences[18]

1850–1874

1875–1899

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 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
  • 1948 – Austin Farrer The Glass of Vision

1950–1999

2000–present

See also

References

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    "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. [2]
    Dictionary of National Biography, article Holmes, Robert (1748–1805).
  3. [3]
    A comparison of Islam and Christianity in their history, their evidence and their effects. 1784.
  4. [4]
    "Archived copy". rylibweb.man.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 11 February 2001. Retrieved 13 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. [5]
    Biography: Anonymous on Rev. Henry Kett Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine.
  6. [6]
    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.
  7. [7]
    Sermons preached before the University of Oxford.
  8. [8]
    Against the views of Edward Evanson. PDF Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine, pp. 26–29.
  9. [9]
    A Key to the Writings of the Principal Fathers of the Christian Church who flourished during the first three centuries.
  10. [10]
    Dictionary of Welsh Biography, The National Library of Wales.
  11. [11]
    Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Goddard, Charles (1769/70–1848), Church of England clergyman by W. M. Jacob.
  12. [12]
    Internet Archive.
  13. [13]
    Strongly attacked by John Henry Newman's pamphlet Elucidations of Dr. Hampden's Theological StatementsAnglican History.
  14. [14]
    Dictionary of National Biography.
  15. [15]
    Justification.
  16. [16]
    Bishop Shirley died, having given only two of the lectures Archived May 9, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  17. [17]
    The Bampton Lectures for 1848 were given by another Evangelical, Edward G. Marsh, a former Fellow of Oriel, and now incumbent of Aylesford, Kent."EvanTheo2". Archived from the original on 5 February 2012. Retrieved 15 September 2013.
  18. [18]
    Concise Dictionary of National Biography.
  19. [19]
    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) Archived 2006-09-05 at the Wayback Machine
  20. [20]
    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 Archived 2007-02-07 at the Wayback Machine)
  21. [21]
    Wright, George Frederick
  22. [22]
    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."Archived copy". Archived from the original on 8 February 2007. Retrieved 20 December 2006.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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    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 ... Archived February 15, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
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    Now available as Howard E. Root, Theological Radicalism and Tradition: 'The Limits of Radicalism' with Appendices, ed. Christopher R. Brewer. London and New York: Routledge, 2017.
  25. [25]
    as described in the French Studies OUP 2011,
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    "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.
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    "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.
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    "Towards a phenomenology of the devout life". University of Oxford. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  29. [29]
    "Rethinking Relations Between Science and Religion". Retrieved 20 March 2019.
  30. [30]
    "The Bampton Lectures".
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