Croall Lectures

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The Croall Lectures are a lecture series in Christian theology given in Edinburgh, and founded in 1876.{{cite book|author=Tomoko Masuzawa|title=The Invention of World Religions: Or, How European Universalism Was Preserved in the Language of Pluralism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Quu3VvTFnnAC&pg=PA276|date=26 April 2012|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-92262-1|page=276}} The Lectures were endowed by John Croall of Southfield, who died in 1871.James Rankin, A Handbook of the Church of Scotland (1879) p. 104; [https://archive.org/stream/handbookofchurc00rank#page/104/mode/2up archive.org.]

Lecturers

1876 John Tulloch{{cite web|url=http://www.mocavo.com/Fasti-Ecclesiae-Scoticanae-the-Succession-of-Ministers-in-the-Church-of-Scotland-From-the-Reformation-Volume-7/660502/439|title=Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae : the Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland From the Reformation, Volume 7, Page 439|accessdate=3 May 2014}}
1878–79 John Caird,{{cite web|url=http://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/encyc/encyc02/htm/old/0353=337.htm|title=Page 337|work=Christian Classics Ethereal Library|accessdate=3 May 2014}} Philosophy of Religion{{cite book|author=Eugene Thomas Long|title=Twentieth-Century Western Philosophy of Religion 1900-2000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Okz-KIU_VS8C&pg=PA14|date=30 June 2003|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1-4020-1454-3|page=14}}
1879–80 William Milligan, The Resurrection of Our Lord{{cite ODNB|id=18756|title=Milligan, William|first=D. M.|last=Murray}}
1882 Archibald Hamilton Charteris,{{cite web|url=http://www.mocavo.com/Fasti-Ecclesiae-Scoticanae-the-Succession-of-Ministers-in-the-Church-of-Scotland-From-the-Reformation-Volume-7/660502/404|title=Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae : the Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland From the Reformation, Volume 7, Page 404|accessdate=3 May 2014}} The New Testament Scriptures: their claims, history, and authority
1885Louis Henry Jordan, Comparative Religion, its Genesis and Growth (1905), p. 568; [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924029054810#page/n593/mode/2up archive.org.] John Cunningham, The Growth of the Church{{cite ODNB|id=6926|title=|first=Rosemary|last=Mitchell}}
1887 Robert Flint, Agnosticism{{cite DNB12|wstitle=Flint, Robert|volume=2}}
1889 Archibald Scott,{{cite DNB12|wstitle=Scott, Archibald|volume=3}} Buddhism and Christianity; a Parallel and a Contrast
1892 William Hastie, The Theology of the Reformed Church{{cite DNB12|wstitle=Hastie, William|volume=2}}{{cite book|author=G. M. Newlands|title=Traces of Liberality: Collected Essays|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=21IlTBc03RQC&pg=PA153|date=January 2006|publisher=Peter Lang|isbn=978-3-03910-296-9|page=153}}
1893–94 James Robertson,{{cite web|url=http://www.mocavo.com/Fasti-Ecclesiae-Scoticanae-the-Succession-of-Ministers-in-the-Church-of-Scotland-From-the-Reformation-Volume-7/660502/423|title=Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae: the Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland From the Reformation, Volume 7, Page 423|accessdate=3 May 2014}} Poetry and Religion of the Psalms
1897 Thomas Nicol,{{cite web|url=http://www.mocavo.com/Fasti-Ecclesiae-Scoticanae-the-Succession-of-Ministers-in-the-Church-of-Scotland-From-the-Reformation-Volume-7/660502/394|title=Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae: the Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland From the Reformation, Volume 7, Page 394|accessdate=3 May 2014}} Recent Archaeology and the Bible
1899 Rev Prof John Patrick (Professor of Biblical Criticism), Clement of Alexandria{{cite web|url=http://www.archives.lib.ed.ac.uk/biographical/?view=ind&id=236|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140503065639/http://www.archives.lib.ed.ac.uk/biographical/?view=ind&id=236|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 May 2014|title=Edinburgh University Archives, Biographical Database, Patrick, John 1850-1933, Regius Professor of Biblical Criticism|accessdate=3 May 2014}}
1901–02 Alexander Stewart,{{cite web|url=http://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/encyc/encyc11/htm/old/0109=89.htm|title=Page 89|work=Christian Classics Ethereal Library|accessdate=3 May 2014}} Creeds and Churches: Studies in Symbolics
1903–04 William Straton Bruce, Social Aspects of Christian Morality{{cite book|author=William Straton BRUCE|title=Social Aspects of Christian Morality (Croall Lectures, 1903-4)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KuPgngEACAAJ|year=1905|publisher=Hodder & Stoughton}}
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{{cite book|author=J. Nelson Jennings|title=Theology in Japan: Takakura Tokutaro (1885-1934)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ksv3LP35ErIC&pg=PA473|year=2005|publisher=University Press of America|isbn=978-0-7618-3050-4|page=473}}
1913? James Nicoll Ogilvie
1914 Archibald Robert Stirling Kennedy{{cite web|url=http://www.mocavo.com/Fasti-Ecclesiae-Scoticanae-the-Succession-of-Ministers-in-the-Church-of-Scotland-From-the-Reformation-Volume-7/660502/403|title=Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae : the Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland From the Reformation, Volume7, Page 403|accessdate=3 May 2014}}
1916 James Cooper{{cite web|url=http://www.mocavo.com/Fasti-Ecclesiae-Scoticanae-the-Succession-of-Ministers-in-the-Church-of-Scotland-From-the-Reformation-Volume-7/660502/425#426|title=Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae: the Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland From the Reformation, Volume 7, Pages 425–6|accessdate=3 May 2014|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=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|url-status=dead}}
1918–19 William Leslie Davidson, Recent Theistic DiscussionFasti ecclesiæ scoticanæ; the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation vol vi (1926), p. 150; [https://archive.org/stream/fastiecclesiu06scotuoft#page/150/mode/2up archive.org.]
1920–21 Rev Prof William Alexander CurtisAlexander Morrison Ferguson Macinnes, ''The Kingdom of God in the Apostolic Writings ([1924]) p. 239; [https://archive.org/stream/MN41948ucmf_2#page/n241/mode/2up archive.org.]{{cite book|author=William Alexander Curtis|title=Jesus Christ the Teacher: A Study of His Method and Message Based Mainly on the Earlier Gospels|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qMJGAAAAIAAJ|year=1945|publisher=Oxford University Press}}'
1923 David Miller Kay, The Semitic Religions{{cite book|author=David Kay|title=The Semitic Religions - Hebrew, Jewish, Christian & Moslem|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ya9YRqYGakwC|date=1 January 2007|publisher=Read Books|isbn=978-1-4067-8844-0}}
1925 H. M. B. Reid, The Holy Spirit and the Mystics
1926–27 Henry Johnstone Wotherspoon, Religious Values in the Sacraments{{cite book|author=Henry Johnstone Wotherspoon|title=Religious Values in the Sacraments: Being the Croall Lectures, 1926-1927|url=https://archive.org/details/MN41382ucmf_7|year=1928|publisher=T. & T. Clark}}
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{{cite book|author1=Alexander Hetherwick|author2=Croall lectures, 1930–1931|title=The gospel and the African: the Croall lectures for 1930–31, on the impact of the gospel on a Central African people|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ntclAQAAIAAJ|year=1932|publisher=T. & T. Clark}}
1933 Hugh Ross Mackintosh, Types of Modern Theology, Schleiermacher to Barth{{cite book|author=Alister E. McGrath|title=T. F. Torrance: An Intellectual Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2GsYXgxjYdsC&pg=PA32|date=10 May 2006|publisher=Bloomsbury|isbn=978-0-567-03085-6|page=32}}
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{{cite book|author=William Spence Urquhart|title=Humanism and Christianity: being the Croall lectures for 1938-39 delivered in the University of Edinburgh|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-_xRAAAAMAAJ|year=1945|publisher=T. & T. Clark}}
1942 Leonard Hodgson, The Doctrine of the Trinity{{cite book|author1=Frank Leslie Cross|author2=Elizabeth A. Livingstone|title=The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fUqcAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1653|year=2005|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-280290-3|page=1653}}
1944 John Henderson Seaforth Burleigh, The City of God; a study of St. Augustine's philosophy{{cite book|author=John H. S. Burleigh|title=The City of God: A Study of St. Augustine's Philosophy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=scrWAAAAMAAJ|year=1949|publisher=Nisbet}}
1948 John A. Mackay, Ephesians{{cite book|author=John Alexander Mackay|title=God's order: the Ephesian letter and this present time|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9dvYAAAAMAAJ|year=1953|publisher=Macmillan}}
1948 John Mackenzie, Two Religions. A Comparative Study of Some Distinctive Ideas and Ideals in Hinduism and Christianity{{cite book|author=John Mackenzie|title=Two Religions. A Comparative Study of Some Distinctive Ideas and Ideals in Hinduism and Christianity, Being the Croall Lectures for 1948|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tlAPMwEACAAJ|year=1950|publisher=London}}
1949 William Dickie Niven, Reformation Principles after Four Centuries{{cite book|author=William Dickie Niven|title=Reformation Principles After Four Centuries: The Thirty-fifth Series of Croall Lectures|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E0cHuwAACAAJ|year=1953|publisher=Church of Scotland Committee on Publications}}
1951 George Stuart Hendry, The Gospel of the Incarnation{{cite book|author=James H. Moorhead|title=Princeton Seminary in American Religion and Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NCaC0eOyHAgC&pg=PA450|year=2012|publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing|isbn=978-0-8028-6752-0|page=450}}
1953 James Brown, Subject and Object in Modern Theology{{cite book|author=Deborah Savage|title=The Subjective Dimension of Human Work: The Conversion of the Acting Person According to Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II and Bernard Lonergan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VL8nNF-vFC4C&pg=PA49|date=1 January 2008|publisher=Peter Lang|isbn=978-1-4331-0094-9|page=49 note 22}}
1954–57 George Barclay, The Ethical Vocabulary of Saint Paul{{cite web|url=http://william-barclay.com/biography/|title=William Barclay.com, biography|accessdate=6 May 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140506102526/http://william-barclay.com/biography/|archivedate=6 May 2014}}
1955 John Gervase Riddell, The Calling of God
1960 James Stevenson McEwen, The Faith of John Knox{{cite book|author=Dionysius Kempff|title=A Bibliography of Calviniana: 1959-1974|url=https://archive.org/details/bibliographyofca0000kemp|url-access=registration|year=1975|publisher=Brill Archive|isbn=0-86990-213-X|page=[https://archive.org/details/bibliographyofca0000kemp/page/164 164]}}
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{{cite book|author=William Neil|title=The Acts of the Apostles|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NJ8NAQAAMAAJ|year=1973|publisher=Attic Press|page=14 note}}
1970 James Barr, The Bible in the Modern World{{cite book|author=James Barr|title=Bible and Interpretation: The Collected Essays of James Barr: Volume I: Interpretation and Theology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XJ4npIFbsKUC&pg=PR22|date=28 March 2013|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-969288-0|page=xxii}}
1972 Matthew Black, A Survey of Christological Thought, 1872-1972{{cite book|author=Matthew Black|title=A Survey of Christological Thought, 1872-1972: the Croall Centenary Lecture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IQ7WAAAACAAJ|year=1972|publisher=Saint Andrew Press|isbn=978-0-7152-0207-4}}
1980 T. E. Pollard, Fullness of Humanity: Christ's Humanness and Ours{{cite book|author=Charles Panackel|title=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|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bBDyr0XdA0oC&pg=PA361|date=1 January 1988|publisher=Gregorian Biblical BookShop|isbn=978-88-7652-581-0|page=361}}
1983 D. W. D. (Bill) Shaw
1987 David S. M. Hamilton, Through the Waters: Baptism and the Christian life{{cite book|author=David S. M. Hamilton|title=Through the Waters: Baptism and the Christian Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DcnyOAAACAAJ|year=1990|publisher=T. & T. Clark|isbn=978-0-567-29178-3}}
1998 Frances Young
2005 John Barton, The Nature of Biblical Criticism{{cite book|author=Titus Chung|title=Thomas Torrance's Mediations and Revelation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g8FNWMRoJJEC&pg=PA42|year=2011|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.|isbn=978-1-4094-0570-2|page=42 note 44}}
2011 Bruce Lindley McCormack, Abandoned by God: The Death of Christ in Systematic, Historical and Exegetical Perspective{{cite web|url=http://www.ptsem.edu/Academic_Affairs/Academic_Departments/Theology/default.aspx?id=4051|title=Princeton Theological Seminary|accessdate=3 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140503101239/http://www.ptsem.edu/Academic_Affairs/Academic_Departments/Theology/default.aspx?id=4051|archive-date=2014-05-03|url-status=dead}}[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)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140506120246/http://www.docs.hss.ed.ac.uk/divinity/News%20and%20events/Events%20archive/School%20seminars/Spring%202011/Theology%2C%20History%20%26%20Ethics%20Seminars%20Sem%202%202011.pdf |date=2014-05-06 }}
2013 Marilynne Robinson, Son of God, Son of Man{{cite web|url=http://edinburgh.eventful.com/events/croall-lectures-delivered-marilynne-robinson-/E0-001-059178605-0|title=Croall Lectures delivered by Marilynne Robinson: "Son of God, Son of Man" in Edinburgh, EDH - Sep 24, 2013 4:00 PM|accessdate=3 May 2014}}
2016 Linda Woodhead, Is Britain Still a Christian Country? Religion and values in the 21st century{{cite web |title=Is Britain Still a Christian Country? |url=https://www.ed.ac.uk/news/2015/christiancountry-200215 |website=University of Edinburgh |publisher=University of Edinburgh |access-date=3 January 2021}}
2017 Werner Jeanrond, Hope{{cite book |last1=Jeanrond |first1=Werner G. |title=Reasons to Hope |date=2020 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |location=London |isbn=9780567668950 |url=https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/reasons-to-hope/ |access-date=3 January 2021}}
2018 Ian A. McFarland, Vere Deus, Vere Homo: Reflections on the Incarnation{{cite web |title=Croall Lecture Series 2018: 'Vere Deus, Vere Homo: Reflections on the Incarnation' |url=https://www.ed.ac.uk/divinity/news-events/events/event-archive/croall-lecture-series-2018 |website=School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh |publisher=University of Edinburgh |access-date=3 January 2021 |archive-date=15 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200815023443/https://www.ed.ac.uk/divinity/news-events/events/event-archive/croall-lecture-series-2018 |url-status=dead }}
2019 Guy D Stiebel, There is something new under the sun{{cite web |title=Croall Lecture 2019: 'There is something new under the sun' - Recent finds from Masada |url=https://www.ed.ac.uk/divinity/news-events/events/event-archive/croall-lecture-2019-masada |website=School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh |publisher=University of Edinburgh |access-date=3 January 2021 |archive-date=22 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022041043/https://www.ed.ac.uk/divinity/news-events/events/event-archive/croall-lecture-2019-masada |url-status=dead }}

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