Hibbert Lectures Explained
The Hibbert Lectures are an annual series of non-sectarian lectures on theological issues.[1] They are sponsored by the Hibbert Trust, which was founded in 1847 by the Unitarian Robert Hibbert with a goal to uphold "the unfettered exercise of private judgement in matters of religion.". In recent years the lectures have been broadcast by the BBC.
Lecturers (incomplete list)
1878-1894 (First Series)
- 1878 Max Müller On the Religions of India (inaugural)
- 1879 Peter le Page Renouf The Religion of the Egyptians
- 1880 Ernest Renan Lectures on the Influence of the Institutions, Thought And Culture of Rome on Christianity And the Development of the Catholic Church
- 1881 T. W. Rhys Davids Indian Buddhism
- 1882 Abraham Kuenen National Religions and Universal Religion
- 1883 Charles Beard The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century in its Relation to Modern Thought and Knowledge
- 1884 Albert Reville The Native Religions of Mexico and Peru
- 1885 Otto Pfleiderer The Influence of the Apostle Paul on the Development of Christianity
- 1886 John Rhys Lectures on the origin and growth of religion as illustrated by Celtic heathendom
- 1887 Archibald Sayce Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as illustrated by the Religion of the Ancient Babylonians
- 1888 Edwin Hatch Influence of Greek Ideas and Usages Upon the Christian Church
- 1891 Eugene, Count Goblet D'Alviella Lectures on the Origin and Growth of the Concept of God, as Illustrated by Anthropology and History [2]
- 1892 Claude Montefiore The Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Religion of the Ancient Hebrews
- 1893 Charles Barnes Upton Lectures on the bases of religious belief
- 1894 James Drummond Via, Veritas, Vita; Christianity in its most simple and intelligible form
1900-1949
1950-1999
2000-
- 2003 James L. Cox Religion without God: Methodological Agnosticism and the Future of Religious Studies
- 2005 Karen Armstrong and Khalid Hameed Spirituality and global citizenship
Notes and References
- Hibbert Lectures.
- ...so well known as a freethinker that when he was invited the Hibbert Lectures at Oxford, the authorities of Balliol College refused the use of a room for the purposehttp://www.infidels.org/library/historical/joseph_mccabe/dictionary.html