Bampton Lectures

The Bampton Lectures at the University of Oxford, England, were founded by a bequest of John Bampton.^[1] They have taken place since 1780.

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

1850 – Edward Meyrick Goulburn The Resurrection of the Body
1851 – Henry Bristow Wilson The Communion of Saints
1852 – Joseph Esmond Riddle The Natural History of Infidelity and Superstition in contrast with Christian Faith
1853 – William Thomson The Atoning Work of Christ viewed in Relation to some Ancient Theories
1854 – Samuel Waldegrave New Testament Millenarianism^[19]
1855 – John Ernest Bode The Absence of Precision in the Formularies of the Church of England
1856 – Edward Arthur Litton The Mosaic Dispensation Considered as Introductory to Christianity
1857 – William Edward Jelf Christian Faith, Comprehensive, not Partial; Definite, not Uncertain
1858 – Henry Longueville Mansel The Limits of Religious Thought
1859 – George Rawlinson Historic Evidence for the Truth of the Christian Records
1860 – James Augustus Hessey On Sunday: its Origin, History, and Present Obligation
1861 – John Sandford The Mission and Extension of the Church at Home
1862 – Adam Storey Farrar A Critical History of Free Thought in reference to the Christian Religion
1863 – John Hannah The Relation between the Divine and Human Elements in Holy Scripture
1864 – Thomas Dehany Bernard The Progress of Doctrine in the New Testament
1865 – James Bowling Mozley Miracles^[20]
1866 – Henry Parry Liddon The Divinity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
1867 – Edward Garbett Dogmatic Faith, an inquiry into the relation subsisting between revelation and dogma
1868 – George Moberly The Administration of the Holy Spirit in the Body of Christ
1869 – Robert Payne Smith Prophecy a Preparation for Christ
1870 – William Josiah Irons Christianity as Taught by St. Paul
1871 – George Herbert Curteis Dissent, in Its Relation to the Church of England
1872 – John Richard Turner Eaton The Permanence of Christianity
1873 – Isaac Gregory Smith Characteristics of Christian Morality
1874 – Stanley Leathes The Religion of the Christ

1875–1899

1875 – William Jackson, FSA Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford The Doctrine of Retribution
1876 – William Alexander The Witness of the Psalms to Christ and Christianity
1877 – Charles Adolphus Row Christian evidences viewed in relation to modern thought
1878 – Charles Henry Hamilton Wright Zechariah and his Prophecies Considered in Relation to Modern Criticism^[21]
1879 – Henry Wace The Foundations of Faith
1880 – Edwin Hatch The Origin of Early Christian Churches
1881 – John Wordsworth The One Religion: truth, holiness and peace desired by the nations, and revealed by Jesus Christ
1882 – Peter Goldsmith Medd The One Mediator
1883 – William Henry Fremantle The World as the Subject of Redemption
1884 – Frederick Temple The Relations between Religion and Science^[22]
1885 – Frederic William Farrar The History of Interpretation
1886 – Charles Bigg The Christian Platonists of Alexandria
1887 – William Boyd Carpenter Permanent Elements of Religion
1888 – Robert Edward Bartlett The Letter and the Spirit
1889 – Thomas Kelly Cheyne The Origin and Contents of the Psalter
1890 – Henry William Watkins Modern Criticism considered in its Relation to the Fourth Gospel
1891 – Charles Gore The Incarnation of the Son of God
1892 – Alfred Barry Some Light of Science on the Faith
1893 – William Sanday Inspiration^[23]
1894 – John Richardson Illingworth Personality, Human and Divine
1895 – Thomas Banks Strong Christian Ethics
1897 – Robert Lawrence Ottley Aspects of the Old Testament
1899 – William Ralph Inge Christian Mysticism (online text^{[permanent dead link]})

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[2]
1948 – Austin Farrer The Glass of Vision

1950–1999

1952 – Robert Leslie Pollington Milburn Early Christian Interpretations of History
1954 – Henry Ernest William Turner The Pattern of Christian Truth: A Study in the Relations Between Orthodoxy and Heresy in the Early Church
1955 – Thomas Maynard Parker Christianity and the State in the Light of History
1956 – E. L. Mascall Christian Theology and Natural Science: Some Questions on their Relations
1958 – John Gordon Davies He Ascended Into Heaven
1960 - Eric Waldram Kemp "Counsel and Consent"
1962 – Alan Richardson History Sacred and Profane
1964 – Stephen Neill Church and Christian Union
1966 – David Edward Jenkins The Glory of Man
1968 – Frederick William Dillistone Traditional Symbols and the Contemporary World
1970 – Cheslyn Jones Christ and Christianity: a study in origins in the light of St Paul
1972 – Howard E. Root "The Limits of Radicalism"^[24]
1974 – Peter Baelz The Forgotten Dream: Experience, Hope and God
1976 – Geoffrey W. H. Lampe God As Spirit ISBN 0-19-826644-8
1978 – A. R. Peacocke Creation and the World of Science
1980 – Anthony E. Harvey Jesus and the Constraints of History
1982 – Peter Hinchcliff Holiness and Politics ISBN 0-232-51502-6
1984 – J. A. T. Robinson The Priority of John
1986 – Maurice Wiles God's Action in the World
1988 – John Barton "People of the Book?"
1990 – Alister E. McGrath Genesis of Doctrine: a Study in the Foundations of Doctrinal Criticism
1992 – Colin Gunton The One, the Three and the Many: God, Creation and the Culture of Modernity ISBN 0-521-42184-5
1994 – Eric William Heaton The School Tradition of the Old Testament
1996 – Ursula King Christ in All Things: Exploring Spirituality With Teilhard De Chardin ISBN 1-57075-115-3

2000–present

2000 – John Habgood Varieties of Unbelief
2001 – David Fergusson Church, State and Civil Society ISBN 0-521-52959-X
2003 – Oliver O'Donovan The Ways of Judgment ISBN 978-0-8028-2920-7
2005 – Paul S. Fiddes Seeing the world and knowing God: ancient wisdom and modern doctrine
2007 – Raymond Plant Religion, Citizenship and Liberal Pluralism
2009 – Richard Parish Catholic Particularity in Seventeenth-Century French Writing: Christianity is Strange ^[25]
2011 – Frances Young God's Presence: A Contemporary Recapitulation Of Early Christianity^[26]
2013 – Michael Banner Imagining life: Christ and the human condition^[27]
2015 – David F. Ford, Daring Spirit: John's Gospel Now
2017 – George Pattison A Phenomenology of the Devout Life^[28]
2019 – Peter Harrison Rethinking Relations Between Science and Religion^[29] YouTube Published as Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age''
2021 – Jessica Martin Four-Dimensional Eucharist ^[30]
2022 - Alec Ryrie The age of Hitler, and how we can escape it
2023 - Willie James Jennings Jesus and the Displaced: Christology and the Redemption of Habitation
2024 - Rowan Williams Recognizing Strangers: Solidarity and Christian Ethics

References

^ "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.
^ Dictionary of National Biography, article Holmes, Robert (1748–1805).
^ A comparison of Islam and Christianity in their history, their evidence and their effects. 1784.
^ "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)
^ Biography: Anonymous on Rev. Henry Kett Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine.
^ 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.
^ Sermons preached before the University of Oxford.
^ Against the views of Edward Evanson. PDF Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine, pp. 26–29.
^ A Key to the Writings of the Principal Fathers of the Christian Church who flourished during the first three centuries.
^ Dictionary of Welsh Biography, The National Library of Wales.
^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Goddard, Charles (1769/70–1848), Church of England clergyman by W. M. Jacob.
^ Internet Archive.
^ Strongly attacked by John Henry Newman's pamphlet Elucidations of Dr. Hampden's Theological StatementsAnglican History.
^ Dictionary of National Biography.
^ Justification.
^ Bishop Shirley died, having given only two of the lectures Archived May 9, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
^ 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.
^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography.
^ 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
^ 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)
^ Wright, George Frederick
^ 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)
^ 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 ...[1] Archived February 15, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
^ 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.
^ as described in the French Studies OUP 2011,
^ "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.
^ "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.
^ "Towards a phenomenology of the devout life". University of Oxford. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
^ "Rethinking Relations Between Science and Religion". Retrieved 20 March 2019.
^ "The Bampton Lectures".

External links

Bampton Lectures from Project Canterbury with links to all known online Bampton Lectures
Bampton Lectures
General bibliography, good source for Bampton Lectures volumes (PDF)