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Croall Lectures

Croall Lectures

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The Croall Lectures are a lecture series in Christian theology given in Edinburgh, and founded in 1876.[1] The Lectures were endowed by John Croall of Southfield, who died in 1871.[2]

Grave of John Croall of Southfield, founder of the Croall Lectures

Lecturers

  • 1876 John Tulloch[3]
  • 1878–79 John Caird,[4] Philosophy of Religion[5]
  • 1879–80 William Milligan, The Resurrection of Our Lord[6]
  • 1882 Archibald Hamilton Charteris,[7] The New Testament Scriptures: their claims, history, and authority
  • 1885[8] John Cunningham, The Growth of the Church[9]
  • 1887 Robert Flint, Agnosticism[10]
  • 1889 Archibald Scott,[11] Buddhism and Christianity; a Parallel and a Contrast
  • 1892 William Hastie, The Theology of the Reformed Church[12][13]
  • 1893–94 James Robertson,[14] Poetry and Religion of the Psalms
  • 1897 Thomas Nicol,[15] Recent Archaeology and the Bible
  • 1899 Rev Prof John Patrick (Professor of Biblical Criticism), Clement of Alexandria[16]
  • 1901–02 Alexander Stewart,[17] Creeds and Churches: Studies in Symbolics
  • 1903–04 William Straton Bruce, Social Aspects of Christian Morality[18]
  • 1907–08 Andrew Wallace Williamson, The Person of Christ in the Faith of the Church
  • 1911–12 George Milligan, The New Testament Documents, their origin and early history
  • 1912–13 Andrew Blair Wann, The Message of Christ to India[19]
  • 1913? James Nicoll Ogilvie
  • 1914 Archibald Robert Stirling Kennedy[20]
  • 1916 James Cooper[21]
  • 1918–19 William Leslie Davidson, Recent Theistic Discussion[22]
  • 1920–21 Rev Prof William Alexander Curtis[23][24]'
  • 1923 David Miller Kay, The Semitic Religions[25]
  • 1925 H. M. B. Reid, The Holy Spirit and the Mystics
  • 1926–27 Henry Johnstone Wotherspoon, Religious Values in the Sacraments[26]
  • 1928 J. Garrow Duncan, Digging Up Biblical History. Recent Archaeology In Palestine And Its Bearing On The Old Testament
  • 1930–31, Alexander Hetherwick, The Gospel and the African[27]
  • 1933 Hugh Ross Mackintosh, Types of Modern Theology, Schleiermacher to Barth[28]
  • 1936 Otto Piper, God in History
  • 1937 George Simpson Duncan, Jesus, Son of Man: studies contributory to a modern portrait
  • 1938–39 William Spence Urquhart. Humanism and Christianity[29]
  • 1942 Leonard Hodgson, The Doctrine of the Trinity[30]
  • 1944 John Henderson Seaforth Burleigh, The City of God; a study of St. Augustine's philosophy[31]
  • 1948 John A. Mackay, Ephesians[32]
  • 1948 John Mackenzie, Two Religions. A Comparative Study of Some Distinctive Ideas and Ideals in Hinduism and Christianity[33]
  • 1949 William Dickie Niven, Reformation Principles after Four Centuries[34]
  • 1951 George Stuart Hendry, The Gospel of the Incarnation[35]
  • 1953 James Brown, Subject and Object in Modern Theology[36]
  • 1954–57 George Barclay, The Ethical Vocabulary of Saint Paul[37]
  • 1955 John Gervase Riddell, The Calling of God
  • 1960 James Stevenson McEwen, The Faith of John Knox[38]
  • 1960–61 Martin Andrew Simpson, Defender of the Faith, etcetera Elizabeth of England, her Church and Parliament, 1558–59
  • 1965 David Haxton Carswell Read, Christian Ethics
  • 1967, William Neil, The Apostolic Age, published as The Truth about the Early Church[39]
  • 1970 James Barr, The Bible in the Modern World[40]
  • 1972 Matthew Black, A Survey of Christological Thought, 1872-1972[41]
  • 1980 T. E. Pollard, Fullness of Humanity: Christ's Humanness and Ours[42]
  • 1983 D. W. D. (Bill) Shaw
  • 1987 David S. M. Hamilton, Through the Waters: Baptism and the Christian life[43]
  • 1998 Frances Young
  • 2005 John Barton, The Nature of Biblical Criticism[44]
  • 2011 Bruce Lindley McCormack, Abandoned by God: The Death of Christ in Systematic, Historical and Exegetical Perspective[45][46]
  • 2013 Marilynne Robinson, Son of God, Son of Man[47]
  • 2016 Linda Woodhead, Is Britain Still a Christian Country? Religion and values in the 21st century[48]
  • 2017 Werner Jeanrond, Hope[49]
  • 2018 Ian A. McFarland, Vere Deus, Vere Homo: Reflections on the Incarnation[50]
  • 2019 Guy D Stiebel, There is something new under the sun[51]

Notes

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    Tomoko Masuzawa (26 April 2012). The Invention of World Religions: Or, How European Universalism Was Preserved in the Language of Pluralism. University of Chicago Press. p. 276. ISBN 978-0-226-92262-1.
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    James Rankin, A Handbook of the Church of Scotland (1879) p. 104; archive.org.
  3. [3]
    "Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae : the Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland From the Reformation, Volume 7, Page 439". Retrieved 3 May 2014.
  4. [4]
    "Page 337". Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Retrieved 3 May 2014.
  5. [5]
    Eugene Thomas Long (30 June 2003). Twentieth-Century Western Philosophy of Religion 1900-2000. Springer. p. 14. ISBN 978-1-4020-1454-3.
  6. [6]
    Murray, D. M. "Milligan, William". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/18756. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  7. [7]
    "Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae : the Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland From the Reformation, Volume 7, Page 404". Retrieved 3 May 2014.
  8. [8]
    Louis Henry Jordan, Comparative Religion, its Genesis and Growth (1905), p. 568; archive.org.
  9. [9]
    Mitchell, Rosemary. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/6926. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help) (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  10. [10]
    Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). "Flint, Robert" . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  11. [11]
    Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). "Scott, Archibald" . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  12. [12]
    Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). "Hastie, William" . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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    G. M. Newlands (January 2006). Traces of Liberality: Collected Essays. Peter Lang. p. 153. ISBN 978-3-03910-296-9.
  14. [14]
    "Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae: the Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland From the Reformation, Volume 7, Page 423". Retrieved 3 May 2014.
  15. [15]
    "Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae: the Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland From the Reformation, Volume 7, Page 394". Retrieved 3 May 2014.
  16. [16]
    "Edinburgh University Archives, Biographical Database, Patrick, John 1850-1933, Regius Professor of Biblical Criticism". Retrieved 3 May 2014.[permanent dead link]
  17. [17]
    "Page 89". Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Retrieved 3 May 2014.
  18. [18]
    William Straton BRUCE (1905). Social Aspects of Christian Morality (Croall Lectures, 1903-4). Hodder & Stoughton.
  19. [19]
    J. Nelson Jennings (2005). Theology in Japan: Takakura Tokutaro (1885-1934). University Press of America. p. 473. ISBN 978-0-7618-3050-4.
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    "Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae : the Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland From the Reformation, Volume7, Page 403". Retrieved 3 May 2014.
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    "Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae: the Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland From the Reformation, Volume 7, Pages 425–6". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 3 May 2014.
  22. [22]
    Fasti ecclesiæ scoticanæ; the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation vol vi (1926), p. 150; archive.org.
  23. [23]
    Alexander Morrison Ferguson Macinnes, The Kingdom of God in the Apostolic Writings ([1924]) p. 239; archive.org.
  24. [24]
    William Alexander Curtis (1945). Jesus Christ the Teacher: A Study of His Method and Message Based Mainly on the Earlier Gospels. Oxford University Press.
  25. [25]
    David Kay (1 January 2007). The Semitic Religions - Hebrew, Jewish, Christian & Moslem. Read Books. ISBN 978-1-4067-8844-0.
  26. [26]
    Henry Johnstone Wotherspoon (1928). Religious Values in the Sacraments: Being the Croall Lectures, 1926-1927. T. & T. Clark.
  27. [27]
    Alexander Hetherwick; Croall lectures, 1930–1931 (1932). The gospel and the African: the Croall lectures for 1930–31, on the impact of the gospel on a Central African people. T. & T. Clark.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  28. [28]
    Alister E. McGrath (10 May 2006). T. F. Torrance: An Intellectual Biography. Bloomsbury. p. 32. ISBN 978-0-567-03085-6.
  29. [29]
    William Spence Urquhart (1945). Humanism and Christianity: being the Croall lectures for 1938-39 delivered in the University of Edinburgh. T. & T. Clark.
  30. [30]
    Frank Leslie Cross; Elizabeth A. Livingstone (2005). The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. Oxford University Press. p. 1653. ISBN 978-0-19-280290-3.
  31. [31]
    John H. S. Burleigh (1949). The City of God: A Study of St. Augustine's Philosophy. Nisbet.
  32. [32]
    John Alexander Mackay (1953). God's order: the Ephesian letter and this present time. Macmillan.
  33. [33]
    John Mackenzie (1950). Two Religions. A Comparative Study of Some Distinctive Ideas and Ideals in Hinduism and Christianity, Being the Croall Lectures for 1948. London.
  34. [34]
    William Dickie Niven (1953). Reformation Principles After Four Centuries: The Thirty-fifth Series of Croall Lectures. Church of Scotland Committee on Publications.
  35. [35]
    James H. Moorhead (2012). Princeton Seminary in American Religion and Culture. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 450. ISBN 978-0-8028-6752-0.
  36. [36]
    Deborah Savage (1 January 2008). The Subjective Dimension of Human Work: The Conversion of the Acting Person According to Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II and Bernard Lonergan. Peter Lang. p. 49 note 22. ISBN 978-1-4331-0094-9.
  37. [37]
    "William Barclay.com, biography". Archived from the original on 6 May 2014. Retrieved 6 May 2014.
  38. [38]
    Dionysius Kempff (1975). A Bibliography of Calviniana: 1959-1974. Brill Archive. p. 164. ISBN 0-86990-213-X.
  39. [39]
    William Neil (1973). The Acts of the Apostles. Attic Press. p. 14 note.
  40. [40]
    James Barr (28 March 2013). Bible and Interpretation: The Collected Essays of James Barr: Volume I: Interpretation and Theology. Oxford University Press. p. xxii. ISBN 978-0-19-969288-0.
  41. [41]
    Matthew Black (1972). A Survey of Christological Thought, 1872-1972: the Croall Centenary Lecture. Saint Andrew Press. ISBN 978-0-7152-0207-4.
  42. [42]
    Charles Panackel (1 January 1988). Idou Ho Anthrōpos (Jn 19,5b): An Exegetico-theological Study of the Text in the Light of the Use of the Term Anthrōpos Designating Jesus in the Fourth Gospel. Gregorian Biblical BookShop. p. 361. ISBN 978-88-7652-581-0.
  43. [43]
    David S. M. Hamilton (1990). Through the Waters: Baptism and the Christian Life. T. & T. Clark. ISBN 978-0-567-29178-3.
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    Titus Chung (2011). Thomas Torrance's Mediations and Revelation. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 42 note 44. ISBN 978-1-4094-0570-2.
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    "Princeton Theological Seminary". Archived from the original on 3 May 2014. Retrieved 3 May 2014.
  46. [46]
    Edinburgh Spring 2011 announcement (PDF) Archived 2014-05-06 at the Wayback Machine
  47. [47]
    "Croall Lectures delivered by Marilynne Robinson: "Son of God, Son of Man" in Edinburgh, EDH - Sep 24, 2013 4:00 PM". Retrieved 3 May 2014.
  48. [48]
    "Is Britain Still a Christian Country?". University of Edinburgh. University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  49. [49]
    Jeanrond, Werner G. (2020). Reasons to Hope. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. ISBN 9780567668950. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  50. [50]
    "Croall Lecture Series 2018: 'Vere Deus, Vere Homo: Reflections on the Incarnation'". School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh. University of Edinburgh. Archived from the original on 15 August 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  51. [51]
    "Croall Lecture 2019: 'There is something new under the sun' - Recent finds from Masada". School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh. University of Edinburgh. Archived from the original on 22 October 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
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