Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh

GIFFORD LECTURES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH

Academic Year	Lecturer Remarks	Title of Published Lecture

1888-90	James Hutchison Stirling	Philosophy and Theology T & T Clark, 1890
1890-91	George Gabriel Stokes	Natural Theology Black, 1891 Natural Theology Black, 1893
1892-94	Otto Pfleinderer	Philosophy and Development of Religion, 2 vols. Blackwood, 1894
1894-95	Alexander Campbell Fraser	Philosophy of Theism Blackwood, 1895 Philosophy of Theism, 2 vols. Blackwood, 1896
1896-98	Cornelius Petrus Tiele	Elements of the Science of Religion: part 1, morphological Blackwood, 1897 Elements of the Science of Religion: part 2, ontological Blackwood, 1899
1900-02	William James	The Varieties of Religious Experience: a study of human nature Longmans, Green & Co., 1902
1903-05	Henry Melvill Gwatkin	The Knowledge of God and its Historical Development, 2 vols. T & T Clark, 1906
1905-06	Simon Somerville Laurie	Synthetica: being meditations epistemological and ontological 2 vols. 2nd vol., along with an introductory statement giving argument of vol 1 constituted the Gifford Lectures of 1905 and 1906 Longmans, Green, 1906
1907-08	Robert Flint	Lecture not delivered
1909-10	W Warde Fowler	The Religious Experience of the Roman People from the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus Macmillan, 1911
1910-12	Bernard Bosanquest	The Principle of Individuality and Value Macmillan, 1912
1913-14	Henri Bergon	The Problem of Personality
1915-16	Sir William M Ramsay	Asianic Elements in Greek Civilisation Murray, 1927
1919-20	G F Stout	Mind and Matter 2 vols. Cambridge University Press, 1931
1921-23	A Pringle-Pattison	God and Nature The second of two volumes (the first being 'Mind and Matter') based on the Gifford Lectures in 1919 and 1921. Ed by A K Stout with a memoir by J A Passmore Cambridge University Press, 1952 The Idea of Immortality Oxford Clarendon Press, 1922 Studies in the Philosophy of Religion. Partly based on the 1923 lectures Oxford Clarendon Press, 1930
1923-25	Sir James George Frazer	The Worship of Nature vol.1 Contains the whole of the Gifford Lectures delivered in the years 1924 and 1925 together with much additional matter. Macmillan, 1926
1924-26	Friedrich von Hugel	Lecture not delivered due to health reasons
1926-27	A S Eddington	The Nature of the Physical World Cambridge University Press, 1928
1927-28	Alfred North Whitehead	Process and Reality: an essay in cosmology Cambridge University Press 1929
1928-29	John Dewey	The Quest for Certainty: a study of the religion of knowledge and action Allen & Unwin, 1930 first Published in New York, 1929 (Minton)
1930-31	Nathan Soderblom	The Living God: basal forms of personal religion Oxford University Press, 1933
1932-34	Edwyn Bevan	Holy Images: An enquiry into idolatry and image-worship in Ancient Paganism and in Christianity. Contians 4 lectures given in 1933, and omitted from symbolism and belief George Allen & Unwin, 1940 Symbolism and belief Contains 16 lectures delivered in 1933 and 1934 George Allen & Unwin, 1938
1934-35	Albert Schweitzer	The Problem of Natural Theolgy and Natural Ethics Lecture not published
1937-38	Sir Charles S Sherrington	Man and His Nature Cambridge University Press, 1940
1938-40	Reinhold Niebuhr Published New York	The Nature and Destiny of Man; a Christian interpretation Published New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1943 Human Destiny Nisbet
1940-41	Oskar Kraus	New Meditations on Mind, God, and Creation
1941-43

1947-49	Christopher Dawson	Religion and Culture Sheed & Ward, 1948 Religion and the Rise of Western Culture Sheed & Ward, 1950
1949-50	Niels Henrik Bohr	Causality and Complementarity: Epistemological Lessons of Studies in Atomic Physics
1950-52	Rev Prof Charles Earle Raven	Natural Religion and Christian Theology The Gifford Lectures 1951 First series: science and religion Cambridge University Press 1953 Natural Religion and Christian Theology The Gifford Lectures, 1952 Second series: experience and interpretation Cambridge University Press, 1953
1952-53	Arnold J Toynbee	An Historian's Approach to Religion Oxford University Press, 1956
1954-55	Prof D Rudolf Bultmann	History and Eschatology Edinburgh University Press, 1957
1956-57	The Rev Austin Farrer	Freedom of the Will A C Black London, 1958
1957-59	Dr Wolfgang Kohler	Psychology and Physics 1 - The Psychology of Values 2 - Psychology and Physics
1959-60	The Rev Roderick Diarmid Maclennan	The Unity of Moral Experience
1961-62	The Very Rev Prof John Baillie died before the date of the Lectures	The Sense of the Presence of God Oxford University Press, 1962
1962-64	Professor David Daube	The Deed and Doer in the Bible (1st course) Law and Wisdom in the Bible (2nd course) No details of publisher
1964-1966	Professor D M MacKinnon	The Problem of Metaphysics Published by Cambridge University Press
1966-67	Professor H D Lewis	The Soul of God - First Series: published as The Elusive Mind Allen & Unwin, 1969
1967-68	Professor H D Lewis	The Elusive Self Macmillan 1982 Freedom & Alienation Scottish Academic Press 1985
1968-70	Dr W H F Barnes	Knowledge and Faith
1970-71	Professor E L Mascall	The Openness of Being: Natural Theology Today Philadelphia: Westminster Press 1971
1971-73	Professor H C Longuet-Higgins	The Nature of Mind Edinburgh University Press 1972
	Professor C H Waddington	The Phenomenon of Mind
	Dr A J P Kenny	The Development of Mind Edinburgh University Press 1973
	Mr J R Lucas
1973-74	Professor Owen Chadwick	The Secularisation of the European Mind in the 19th Century Cambridge University Press 1975
1974-76	Professor Stanley L Jaki	The Road of Science and the Ways to God University of Chicago Press 1978
1976-77	Dr Jean Pierre Jossua	Facing up to Evil and Submitted to God in the Works Works of Pierre Bayle Published as Pierre Bayle, ou l'obsession du mal, (Presence et Pensee) Paris 1977 Aubier Montaigne
1978-79	Sir John Eccles	The Human Mystery (Routledge) Springer International ,1979 The Human Psyche Springer International ,1980
1979-80	Professor Ninian Smart	The Varieties of Religious Identity Published as Beyond Ideology: Religion and the Future of Western Civilisation Harper and Row, 1981
1980-81	Professor Seyyed H Nasr	Knowledge and the Sacred Edinburgh University Press, 1981
1981-82	Miss Iris Murdoch	Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals
1982-83	Professor David Daiches	God and the Poets Clarendon Press, 1984
1983-84	Professor Michael Arbib/Professor Mary Hesse	The Construction of Reality Published Cambridge University Press ISBN 0521326893
1984-85	Professor Jurgen Montmann	Creation and the Spirit of God Publication (in German Summer 1985) (in English SPCK Autumn 1985)
1985-86	Professor Paul Ricoeur	On Selfhood: the Question of Personal Identity
1986-87	Professor John Hick	An Interpretation of Religion Macmillan Press, 1988
1987-88	Professor Alasdair MacIntyre	Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopaedias, Genealogies and Traditions
1988-89	Professor Raimundo Panikkar	Trinity and Atheism: The Housing of the Divine in the Contemporary World
1989-90	Professor Mary Douglas and Mrs Mary Midgley Routledge	Douglas: Claims on God Midgley: Science and Salvation
1990-91	Professor James Barr	Biblical Faith and Natural Theology
1991-92	Professor Annemarie Schimmel	Islam: a phenomenological study
1992-93	Professor Martha Nussbaum	Need & Recognition: the emotions
1993-94	Reverend Dr John Polkinghorne	Science and Christian Belief
1994-95	No appointment
1995-96	Professor GA Cohen	The Production of Equality: From History, through Politics to Morals
1996-97	Professor Richard RK Sorabji	Emotions and How to Cope with Them: what ancient thought has to teach us
1997-98	Professor Holmes Rolston	Genes, Genesis and God
1998-99	Professor Charles Taylor	Living in a Secular Age
1999-00	Professor David Tracy	This Side of God
2000-01	Dr Onora O'Neill	Title to be announced
2001-02	Professor Muhammed Arkoun (To commemorate 250 years of the teaching of Arabic at Edinburgh)
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