Croall Lectures Explained

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]

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 and References

1. Book: Tomoko Masuzawa. The Invention of World Religions: Or, How European Universalism Was Preserved in the Language of Pluralism. 26 April 2012. University of Chicago Press. 978-0-226-92262-1. 276.
2. James Rankin, A Handbook of the Church of Scotland (1879) p. 104; archive.org.
3. Web site: Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae : the Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland From the Reformation, Volume 7, Page 439. 3 May 2014.
4. Web site: Page 337. Christian Classics Ethereal Library. 3 May 2014.
5. Book: Eugene Thomas Long. Twentieth-Century Western Philosophy of Religion 1900-2000. 30 June 2003. Springer. 978-1-4020-1454-3. 14.
6. 18756. Milligan, William. D. M.. Murray.
7. Web site: Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae : the Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland From the Reformation, Volume 7, Page 404. 3 May 2014.
8. [Louis Henry Jordan]
9. 6926. Rosemary. Mitchell.
10. Flint, Robert. 2.
11. Scott, Archibald. 3.
12. Hastie, William. 2.
13. Book: G. M. Newlands. Traces of Liberality: Collected Essays. January 2006. Peter Lang. 978-3-03910-296-9. 153.
14. Web site: Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae: the Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland From the Reformation, Volume 7, Page 423. 3 May 2014.
15. Web site: Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae: the Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland From the Reformation, Volume 7, Page 394. 3 May 2014.
16. Web site: Edinburgh University Archives, Biographical Database, Patrick, John 1850-1933, Regius Professor of Biblical Criticism. 3 May 2014.
17. Web site: Page 89. Christian Classics Ethereal Library. 3 May 2014.
18. Book: William Straton BRUCE. Social Aspects of Christian Morality (Croall Lectures, 1903-4). 1905. Hodder & Stoughton.
19. Book: J. Nelson Jennings. Theology in Japan: Takakura Tokutaro (1885-1934). 2005. University Press of America. 978-0-7618-3050-4. 473.
20. Web site: Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae : the Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland From the Reformation, Volume7, Page 403. 3 May 2014.
21. Web site: Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae: the Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland From the Reformation, Volume 7, Pages 425–6. 3 May 2014. 4 March 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304090726/http://www.mocavo.com/Fasti-Ecclesiae-Scoticanae-the-Succession-of-Ministers-in-the-Church-of-Scotland-From-the-Reformation-Volume-7/660502/425#426. dead.
22. Fasti ecclesiæ scoticanæ; the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation vol vi (1926), p. 150; archive.org.
23. Alexander Morrison Ferguson Macinnes, The Kingdom of God in the Apostolic Writings ([1924]) p. 239; archive.org.
24. Book: William Alexander Curtis. Jesus Christ the Teacher: A Study of His Method and Message Based Mainly on the Earlier Gospels. 1945. Oxford University Press.
25. Book: David Kay. The Semitic Religions - Hebrew, Jewish, Christian & Moslem. 1 January 2007. Read Books. 978-1-4067-8844-0.
26. Book: Henry Johnstone Wotherspoon. Religious Values in the Sacraments: Being the Croall Lectures, 1926-1927. 1928. T. & T. Clark.
27. Book: Alexander Hetherwick. Croall lectures, 1930–1931. The gospel and the African: the Croall lectures for 1930–31, on the impact of the gospel on a Central African people. 1932. T. & T. Clark.
28. Book: Alister E. McGrath. T. F. Torrance: An Intellectual Biography. 10 May 2006. Bloomsbury. 978-0-567-03085-6. 32.
29. Book: William Spence Urquhart. Humanism and Christianity: being the Croall lectures for 1938-39 delivered in the University of Edinburgh. 1945. T. & T. Clark.
30. Book: Frank Leslie Cross. Elizabeth A. Livingstone. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2005. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-280290-3. 1653.
31. Book: John H. S. Burleigh. The City of God: A Study of St. Augustine's Philosophy. 1949. Nisbet.
32. Book: John Alexander Mackay. God's order: the Ephesian letter and this present time. 1953. Macmillan.
33. Book: John Mackenzie. Two Religions. A Comparative Study of Some Distinctive Ideas and Ideals in Hinduism and Christianity, Being the Croall Lectures for 1948. 1950. London.
34. Book: William Dickie Niven. Reformation Principles After Four Centuries: The Thirty-fifth Series of Croall Lectures. 1953. Church of Scotland Committee on Publications.
35. Book: James H. Moorhead. Princeton Seminary in American Religion and Culture. 2012. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. 978-0-8028-6752-0. 450.
36. Book: Deborah Savage. The Subjective Dimension of Human Work: The Conversion of the Acting Person According to Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II and Bernard Lonergan. 1 January 2008. Peter Lang. 978-1-4331-0094-9. 49 note 22.
37. Web site: William Barclay.com, biography. 6 May 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140506102526/http://william-barclay.com/biography/. 6 May 2014.
38. Book: Dionysius Kempff. A Bibliography of Calviniana: 1959-1974. registration. 1975. Brill Archive. 0-86990-213-X. 164.
39. Book: William Neil. The Acts of the Apostles. 1973. Attic Press. 14 note.
40. Book: James Barr. Bible and Interpretation: The Collected Essays of James Barr: Volume I: Interpretation and Theology. 28 March 2013. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-969288-0. xxii.
41. Book: Matthew Black. A Survey of Christological Thought, 1872-1972: the Croall Centenary Lecture. 1972. Saint Andrew Press. 978-0-7152-0207-4.
42. Book: Charles Panackel. 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. 1 January 1988. Gregorian Biblical BookShop. 978-88-7652-581-0. 361.
43. Book: David S. M. Hamilton. Through the Waters: Baptism and the Christian Life. 1990. T. & T. Clark. 978-0-567-29178-3.
44. Book: Titus Chung. Thomas Torrance's Mediations and Revelation. 2011. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. 978-1-4094-0570-2. 42 note 44.
45. Web site: Princeton Theological Seminary. 3 May 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140503101239/http://www.ptsem.edu/Academic_Affairs/Academic_Departments/Theology/default.aspx?id=4051#. 2014-05-03. dead.
46. http://www.docs.hss.ed.ac.uk/divinity/News%20and%20events/Events%20archive/School%20seminars/Spring%202011/Theology,%20History%20&%20Ethics%20Seminars%20Sem%202%202011.pdf Edinburgh Spring 2011 announcement (PDF)
47. Web site: Croall Lectures delivered by Marilynne Robinson: "Son of God, Son of Man" in Edinburgh, EDH - Sep 24, 2013 4:00 PM. 3 May 2014.
48. Web site: Is Britain Still a Christian Country? . University of Edinburgh . University of Edinburgh . 3 January 2021.
49. Book: Jeanrond . Werner G. . Reasons to Hope . 2020 . Bloomsbury Publishing Plc . London . 9780567668950 . 3 January 2021.
50. Web site: Croall Lecture Series 2018: 'Vere Deus, Vere Homo: Reflections on the Incarnation' . School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh . University of Edinburgh . 3 January 2021 . 15 August 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200815023443/https://www.ed.ac.uk/divinity/news-events/events/event-archive/croall-lecture-series-2018 . dead .
51. Web site: Croall Lecture 2019: 'There is something new under the sun' - Recent finds from Masada . School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh . University of Edinburgh . 3 January 2021 . 22 October 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201022041043/https://www.ed.ac.uk/divinity/news-events/events/event-archive/croall-lecture-2019-masada . dead .