Gifford Lectures#Glasgow
{{short description|Annual series of lectures on natural theology}}
The Gifford Lectures ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|g|ɪ|f|ər|d}}) are an annual series of lectures which were established in 1887 by the will of Adam Gifford, Lord Gifford at the four ancient universities of Scotland: St Andrews, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh. Their purpose is to "promote and diffuse the study of natural theology in the widest sense of the term – in other words, the knowledge of God." A Gifford lectures appointment is one of the most prestigious honours in Scottish academia.{{cite journal |last1=Long |first1=Eugene Thomas |title=Lord Gifford and his Lectures: The First Year (1888-1889) |journal=Studies in Scottish Literature |date=1988 |volume=23 |issue=1 |url=https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1205&context=ssl}}{{cite journal |last1=Spurway |first1=Neil |title=Gifford Lectures |journal=Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions |date=2013 |doi=10.1007/978-1-4020-8265-8_471}}{{cite news |title=HDS Dean Hempton to Deliver Prestigious Gifford Lectures |url=https://hds.harvard.edu/news/2021/09/29/hds-dean-hempton-deliver-prestigious-gifford-lectures |work=Harvard Divinity School |date=29 September 2021}}
University calendars record that at the four Scottish universities, the Gifford Lectures are to be "public and popular, open not only to students of the university, but the whole community (for a tuition fee{{cite web |date=8 September 2014 |title=100 Years of Lectures on Natural Theology - Lord Adam Gifford's Will TRUST DISPOSITION and SETTLEMENT of the late Adam Gifford, sometime one of the Senators of the College of Justice, Scotland, dated 21st August 1885. |url=https://www.giffordlectures.org/lord-gifford/will |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230603013824/https://www.giffordlectures.org/lord-gifford/will |archive-date=3 June 2023 |access-date=16 April 2022 |publisher=The Gifford Lectures |quote=I [Lord Adam Gifford] suggest that the fee should be as small as is consistent with the due management of the lectureships, and the due appreciation of the lectures. Besides a general and popular audience, I advise that the lecturers also have a special class of students conducted in the usual way, and instructed by examination and thesis, written and oral.}}) without matriculation. Besides a general audience, the Lecturer may form a special class of students for the study of the subject, which will be conducted in the usual way, and tested by examination and thesis, written and oral".{{cite book |title=The St. Andrews University Calendar for the Year 1922 |date=1922 |publisher=University of St Andrews |page=46 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lBALAQAAIAAJ&q=St+Andrews+University++Campbell+Gifford+Lectures+1894+female+matriculation |quote=...the lectures are to be public and popular, open not only to students of the university, but the whole community without matriculation...Besides a general audience, the Lecturer may form a special class of students for the study of the subject, which will be conducted in the usual way, and tested by examination and thesis, written and oral.}} The lectures are normally presented as a series over an academic year and given with the intent that the edited content be published in book form. A number of these works have become classics in the fields of theology or philosophy and the relationship between religion and science.
In 1889, those attending the Gifford Lectures at the University of St Andrews were described as "mixed" and included women as well as male undergraduates.{{cite book |last1=Hutchinson -Boyd |first1=A. |title=25 Years At St Andrews|date=1892 |page=324-26 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0zFAAAAAYAAJ&dq=women+at++Gifford+Lectures++in+1890s&pg=PA325 |access-date=14 February 2022 |quote=Our First Gifford Lecturer [at the University of St Andrews - Andrew Lang] - ...a large mixed audience, men and women, undergraduates and grown-ups and aged folk...}} The first woman appointed was Hannah Arendt who presented in Aberdeen between 1972 and 1974.{{cite web|url=https://www.giffordlectures.org/lecturers/hannah-arendt |accessdate=25 February 2021|title=Home :: Lecturers & Authors :: Hannah Arendt|last1=Addison |first1=Sam |date=n.d. |website=The Gifford Lectures |quote="Arendt, the first female Gifford Lecturer, delivered her lectures in Aberdeen between 1972 and 1974."}}
A comparable lecture series is the John Locke Lectures, which are delivered annually at the University of Oxford.
List of lectures
=Aberdeen=
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| style="background:#960018;color:#FFFFFF;"|Year
!style="background:#960018;color:#FFFFFF;"|Speaker(s) !style="background:#960018;color:#FFFFFF;"|Lecture(s){{cite web |title=The Gifford Lectures |url=https://www.abdn.ac.uk/sdhp/events/gifford-lectures/index.php |website=abdn.ac.uk |publisher=University of Aberdeen}} !style="background:#960018;color:#FFFFFF;"|ISBN |
|---|
| 1889–91
|The Natural History of Religion | |
| 1892–94
|[https://giffordlectures.org/speaker/andrew-martin-fairbairn/ The Philosophy of the Christian Religion] | |
| 1896–98
|Naturalism and Agnosticism | |
| 1898–00
|The World and the Individual | |
| 1904–06
|[https://archive.org/stream/religiousteache00marigoog#page/n11/mode/1up The Religious Teachers of Greece] | |
| 1907–08
|The Science and Philosophy of the Organism | |
| 1911–13
|The Idea of God in the light of Recent Philosophy | |
| 1914–15
|[https://archive.org/details/moralvaluesideao00sorlrich Moral Values and the Idea of God] | |
| 1930–32
|The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy | |
| 1936–38
|The Knowledge of God and the Service of God according to the Teaching of the Reformation | |
| 1939–40
|Hellenistic Religion - The Two Phases | |
| 1949–50
|The Mystery of Being and Faith and Reality |{{ISBN|1-890318-85-X}} |
| 1951–52
|Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy |{{ISBN|0-226-67288-3}} |
| 1953–54
|Systematic Theology (3 vols.) |{{ISBN|0-226-80337-6}} |
| 1963–65
|The Living Stream and The Divine Flame | |
| 1965–67
|La Conscience historique dans la pensée et dans l'action | |
| 1970–72
|Arend Theordore van Leeuwen |The Critique of Heaven and Earth | |
| 1972–74
|Life of the Mind | |
| 1982–84
|The Evolution of the Soul |{{ISBN|0-19-823698-0}} |
| 1984–85
|{{ISBN|0-06-072889-2}} |
| 1989–91
|Religion in an Age of Science |{{ISBN|0-06-060383-6}} |
| 1992–93
|Christianity and Classical Culture: The Metamorphosis of Natural Theology in the Christian Encounter With Hellenism |{{ISBN|0-300-06255-9}} |
| rowspan="5"|1994–95
|Faith and Criticism in the Work of William Robertson Smith, 1846-1894 | |
| M. A. Stewart
|New Light and Enlightenment | |
| Peter Jones
|Science and Religion before and after Hume | |
| James H. Burns
|The Order of Nature | |
| Alexander Broadie
|The Shadow of Scotus | |
| 1997–98
|The God Experiment | |
| 2000–01
|The Concept of Nature | |
| 2003
|Wandering in the Darkness | |
| 2003–04
|Mind, Soul and Deity | |
| 2007
|Seeing Things: Deepening Relations with Visual Artefacts |{{ISBN|978-0-334-04149-8}} |
| 2009
|A Fine-Tuned Universe: The Quest for God in Science and Theology |{{ISBN|978-0-664-23310-5}} |
| 2012
|Sacrifice Regained: Evolution, Cooperation and God | |
| 2014
|Dealing with Darwin: Place, Politics and Rhetoric in Religious Engagements with Evolution |{{ISBN|978-1-421-41326-6}} |
| 2016
|Struggle, Suffering and Hope: Explorations in Islamic and Christian Traditions |{{ISBN|978-1-316-51854-0}} |
| 2017
|Athens and Jerusalem: God, Humans, and Nature |{{ISBN|978-1-487-50617-9}} |
| 2018
|Discerning the Dawn: History, Eschatology and New Creation, published as History and Eschatology: Jesus and the Promise of Natural Theology, 2019 |{{ISBN|978-1-4813-0962-2}} |
| rowspan="5"|2022
|A Brief History of Form | |
| Tim Whitmarsh
|Religion and Ancient Mediterranean Thought | |
| Lisa Sideris
|Unnatural Theology in the Anthropocene | |
| Robert McCauley
|Religions and their Cognitive Kin | |
| John Witte Jr.
|A New Calvinist Reformation of Rights | |
| 2024
|The Feminine and the Religious Imagination | |
| 2025
|TBC | |
| 2026
|TBC | |
| TBD
|TBC | |
=Edinburgh=
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| style="background:#041E42;color:#FFFFFF;"|Year
!style="background:#041E42;color:#FFFFFF;"|Speaker(s) !style="background:#041E42;color:#FFFFFF;"|Lecture(s){{cite web |title=Gifford Lectures |url=https://www.ed.ac.uk/arts-humanities-soc-sci/news-events/lectures/gifford-lectures |website=ed.ac.uk |publisher=University of Edinburgh}} !style="background:#041E42;color:#FFFFFF;"|ISBN |
|---|
| 1889–90
|[https://giffordlectures.org/speaker/james-hutchison-stirling/ Philosophy and Theology] | |
| 1891
|Natural Theology | |
| 1892–94
|[https://giffordlectures.org/speaker/otto-pfleiderer/ Philosophy and Development of Religion] | |
| 1896–98
|On the Elements of the Science of Religion |{{ISBN|0-404-60480-3}} |
| 1900–02
|The Varieties of Religious Experience |{{ISBN|0-679-64011-8}} |
| 1909–10
|The Religious Experience of the Roman People |{{ISBN|0-8154-0372-0}} |
| 1911–12
|The Principle of Individuality and Value |{{ISBN|0-527-10036-6}} |
| 1913–14
|The Problem of Personality | |
| 1915–16
|Asianic Elements in Greek Civilization |{{ISBN|0-89005-173-9}} |
| 1919–21
|Mind and Matter pub. 1931 | |
| 1921–23
|Studies in the Philosophy of Religion |{{ISBN|0-404-60474-9}} |
| 1923–35
|The Worship of Nature |{{ISBN|1-56459-532-3}} |
| 1926–27
|The Nature of the Physical World |{{ISBN|0-472-06015-5}} |
| 1927–28
|Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology |{{ISBN|0-02-934570-7}} |
| 1928–29
| The Quest for Certainty: A Study of the Relation of Knowledge and Action |{{ISBN|1-4179-0845-9}} |
| 1934–35
|The Problem of Natural Theology and Natural Ethics (unpublished) | |
| 1937–38
|Man on His Nature |{{ISBN|0-521-06436-8}} |
| 1938–40
|The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation |{{ISBN|0-664-25709-7}} |
| 1947–49
|Vol. 1 Religion and Culture Vol. 2 [https://books.google.com/books?id=d5rTOQqqTywC&pg=PT3 Religion and the Rise of Western Culture] (1950) |{{ISBN|0-404-60498-6}} |
| 1949–50
|Causality and Complementarity: Epistemological Lessons of Studies in Atomic Physics |{{ISBN|1-881987-14-0}} |
| 1950–52
|Natural Religion and Christian Theology | |
| 1952–53
|An Historian's Approach to Religion |{{ISBN|0-19-215260-2}} |
| 1954–55
|History and Eschatology: The Presence of Eternity |{{ISBN|0-8371-8123-2}} |
| 1961–62
|[http://www.giffordlectures.org/lectures/sense-presence-god The Sense of the Presence of God] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171026001502/https://www.giffordlectures.org/lectures/sense-presence-god |date=2017-10-26 }} | |
| 1970–71
|The Openness of Being |{{ISBN|0-232-51159-4}} |
| 1973–74
|The Secularisation of the European Mind in the 19th Century |{{ISBN|0-521-39829-0}} |
| 1974–76
|The Road of Science and the Ways to God |{{ISBN|0-226-39145-0}} |
| 1978–79
|The Human Mystery and The Human Psyche |{{ISBN|0-387-09954-9}} |
| 1979–80
|The Varieties of Religious Identity, published as Beyond Ideology: Religion and the Future of Western Civilisation |{{ISBN|0-06-067402-4}} |
| 1980–81
|Knowledge and the Sacred |{{ISBN|0-7914-0177-4}} |
| 1981–82
|Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals |{{ISBN|0-14-017232-7}} |
| 1983–84
|God and the Poets |{{ISBN|0-19-812825-8}} |
| 1984–85
|God in Creation: A New Theology of Creation and the Spirit of God |{{ISBN|0-8006-2823-3}} |
| 1985–86
|Oneself as another |{{ISBN|0-226-71329-6}} |
| 1986–87
|An Interpretation of Religion |{{ISBN|0-300-10668-8}} |
| 1987–88
|Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry |{{ISBN|0-7156-2337-0}} |
| 1988–89
|Trinity and Theism |{{ISBN|978-1-57075-855-3}} |
| 1989–90
|Claims on God: published (much revised) as In the Wilderness |{{ISBN|1-85075-444-6}} |
| 1991–92
|Deciphering the Signs of God: A Phenomenological Approach to Islam |{{ISBN|978-0791419823}} |
| 1992–93
|Upheavals of Thought: A Theory of the Emotions | |
| 1993–94
|Science and Christian Belief: Theological Reflections of a Bottom-up Thinker |{{ISBN|0-281-04714-6}} |
| 1995–96
|If you're an Egalitarian, how come you're so Rich? |{{ISBN|0-674-00693-3}} |
| 1996–97
|Emotions and How to Cope with Them, published as Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation |{{ISBN|0-19-825005-3}} |
| 1997–98
|Genes, Genesis and God |{{ISBN|0-521-64674-X}} |
| 1998–99
|Living in a Secular Age, published as A Secular Age |{{ISBN|0-674-02676-4}} |
| 1999–00
|This side of God | |
| 2000–01
|Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics | |
| 2001–02
|Inaugurating a Critique of Islamic Reason | |
| 2002–03
|The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror |{{ISBN|0-691-11751-9}} |
| 2003–04
|Alone in the World? Human Uniqueness in Science and Theology |{{ISBN|0-8028-3246-6}} |
| 2004–05
|Margaret Anstee |Delivered a series of lectures dedicated to Edward Said who was scheduled to give the 2004–05 series before his death in 2003 | |
| 2005–06
|Sovereign God, Sovereign State, Sovereign Self | |
| rowspan=2|2006–07
|Darwin 's Compass: How Evolution Discovers the Song of Creation | |
| Jonathan Riley-Smith
|The Crusades and Christianity | |
| 2007–08
|"Because it was he, because it was I": Friendship and Its Place in Life | |
| 2008
|Robert M. Veatch |Hipprocratic, Religious and Secular Medical Ethics: The Point of Conflict | |
| 2008–09
|The Age of Pluralism [April–May 2009] | |
| rowspan=2|2009–10
|Mental Life [October 2009] | |
| Terry Eagleton
|The God Debate [March 2010] | |
| rowspan=2|2010–11
|Science, Religion and the Modern World, published as The Territories of Science and Religion |{{ISBN|978-0226184487}} |
| Gordon Brown
|The Future of Jobs and Justice | |
| rowspan=3|2011–12
|David Hume and Civil Society | |
| Diarmaid MacCulloch
|Silence in Christian History: the witness of Holmes' Dog | |
| Jim Al-Khalili
|Alan Turing: Legacy of a Code Breaker – one-off joint lecture between the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the School of Informatics | |
| rowspan=2|2012–13
|"Once Out of Nature" - Natural Religion as a Pleonasm | |
| Steven Pinker
|The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity{{cite web| title = 2012-13 Gifford Lecture| work = Professor Steven Pinker: "The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity"| publisher = University of Edinburgh College of Humanities and Social Science website| url = http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/humanities-soc-sci/news-events/lectures/gifford-lectures/archive/series-2012-2013/pinker | access-date = August 4, 2013}} | |
| rowspan=3|2013–14
|From Toleration to Freedom of Expression | |
| Rowan Williams
|Making representations: religious faith and the habits of language | |
| Catherine O'Regan
|"What is Caesar's?" Adjudicating faith in modern constitutional democracies | |
| rowspan=2|2014–15
|One Another's Equals: The Basis of Human Equality | |
| Helga Nowotny
|Beyond Innovation. Temporalities. Re-use. Emergence. | |
| 2015–16
|Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism | |
| rowspan=2|2016–17
|Nationalism, Terrorism and Religion | |
| Jeffrey Stout
|Religion Unbound: Ideals and Powers from Cicero to King | |
| rowspan=2|2017–18
|Why We Believe: evolution, making meaning, and the development of human natures | |
| Elaine Howard Ecklund
|Science and Religion in Global Public Life | |
| 2018–19
|The Ancient World and Us: From Fear and Loathing to Enlightenment and Ethics | |
| 2019–20
|In God's Image: Anthropology | |
| 2020–21
|Networks, Nodes, and Nuclei in the History of Christianity, c. 1500-2020 | |
| 2021–22
|Heroism for a Time of Victims | |
| 2022–23
|A Process Perspective on Human Life | |
| 2023–24
|A Jazz-soaked Philosophy for our Catastrophic Times: From Socrates to Coltrane | |
| 2024–25
|Religious Movements: Motion and Emotion in Early Modern Christian History | |
| 2025–26
|TBC | |
=Glasgow=
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| style="background:#0047AB;color:#FFD700;"|Year
!style="background:#0047AB;color:#FFD700;"|Speaker(s) !style="background:#0047AB;color:#FFD700;"|Lecture(s){{cite web |title=The Glasgow Gifford Lectures |url=https://www.gla.ac.uk/events/lectures/gifford/ |website=gla.ac.uk |publisher=University of Glasgow}} !style="background:#0047AB;color:#FFD700;"|ISBN |
|---|
| 1888–92
|1888: [https://giffordlectures.org/speaker/friedrich-max-muller/ Natural Religion] Vol. 1 & 2; 1890: Physical Religion; 1891: Anthropological Religion: 1892: Theosophy or Psychological Religion | |
| 1892–96
|The Fundamental Ideas of Christianity Vol. 1 & 2 | |
| 1896–98
|The Moral Order of the World and The Providential Order of the World | |
| 1900–02
|[https://giffordlectures.org/speaker/edward-caird/ The Evolution of Theology in the Greek Philosophers] | |
| 1914
|{{ISBN|1-58742-005-8}} |
| 1916–18
|Space, Time, and Deity |{{ISBN|0-7661-8701-2}} |
| 1922
|Theism and Thought | |
| 1927–28
|The Sciences and Philosophy |{{ISBN|0-404-60479-X}} |
| 1932–34
|Nature, Man and God | |
| 1952–54
|The Form of the Personal Vol.1 & 2: The Self as Agent and Persons in Relation |{{ISBN|1-57392-337-0}} |
| 1959
|Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker |The Relevance of Science | |
| 1965
|Historical Writing and Christian Beliefs and Human Beliefs and the Development of Historical Writing{{cite web|url=https://www.giffordlectures.org/lecturers/herbert-butterfield|title=Herbert Butterfield|date=18 August 2014|website=The Gifford Lectures|access-date=15 June 2019|archive-date=20 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020031613/https://www.giffordlectures.org/lecturers/herbert-butterfield|url-status=dead}} | |
| 1970
|The Rise and Fall of the Medieval System of Religious Thought | |
| 1974-76
|Morality, Religious and Secular | |
| 1981
|From Athens to Jerusalem | |
| 1985
|{{ISBN|1-59420-107-2}} |
| 1986
| |
| rowspan="2"|1988
|Nature and Culture | |
| Richard Dawkins
|Worlds in Microcosm | |
| 1992
|Imagination and Understanding, published as Imagination and Time |{{ISBN|0-631-19019-8}} |
| 1993–94
|Religion and Revelation |{{ISBN|978-0-19-826375-3}} |
| 1995–96
|Geoffrey Cantor |Reconstructing Nature | |
| 1997–98
|Gods, Genes, Greens and Everything | |
| 1999–00
|Characters in Search of Their Author | |
| 2001
|Lynne Baker |The Nature and Limits of Human Understanding | |
| 2003–04
|Reason's Empire | |
| 2005
|Lenn Goodman |Thou Shall Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself | |
| 2007–08
|Religion and Its Recent Critics published as Faith and Its Critics: A Conversation |{{ISBN|978-0-19-956938-0}} |
| 2008–09
|The Necessity of Secularist Regimes | |
| 2009–10
|The End of Reality | |
| 2012
|Body and Mind: Insights from Neuroscience | |
| 2014
|Givenness and Revelation | |
| 2015
|Perry Schmidt-Leukel |Interreligious Theology: The Future Shape of Theology | |
| 2016
|The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself | |
| 2018
|My Life, Your Life: Equality and the Philosophy of Non-Violence | |
| rowspan="2"|2019
|Philosophia and Religions | |
| Mark Pagel
|Wired for Culture: The Origins of the Human Social Mind, or Why Humans Occupied the World | |
| 2020
|Heaven on Earth: Painting and the Life to Come | |
| rowspan="2"|2022
|Manthia Diawara |Towards a New Sacred | |
| Jack Halberstam
|Collapse, Demolition, and the Queer Geographies and Unworlding: An Aesthetics of Collapse |
| rowspan="2"|2023
|Mark Williams |The Japanese Religious Melting Pot and the Significance of Christianity | |
| Jean-Luc Marion Kevin Hart |Revelation and Contemplation |
=St Andrews=
| class="wikitable collapsible" style="font-size:95%; text-align:left; margin-left:1em;" |
| style="background:#010963;color:#FFFFFF;"|Year
!style="background:#010963;color:#FFFFFF;"|Speaker(s) !style="background:#010963;color:#FFFFFF;"|Lecture(s){{cite web |title=The St Andrews Gifford Lectures |url=https://gifford.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk |website=st-andrews.ac.uk |publisher=University of St Andrews}} !style="background:#010963;color:#FFFFFF;"|ISBN |
|---|
| 1889–90
| |
| 1890–92
|[https://giffordlectures.org/speaker/edward-caird/ The Evolution of Religion] | |
| 1894–96
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20070814104900/http://www.giffordlectures.org/Browse.asp?PubID=TPRIGL&Cover=TRUE Religion in Greek Literature] | |
| 1899–01
|New Tales of Old Rome | |
| 1902–04
|The Pathway to Reality |{{ISBN|0-404-60459-5}} |
| 1907–09
|The Realm of Ends or Pluralism and Theism | |
| 1911–13
|The Belief in Immortality | |
| 1914–16
|The System of Animate Nature | |
| 1917–19
|The Philosophy of Plotinus |{{ISBN|1-59244-284-6}} |
| 1919–20
|Greek Hero Cults and Ideas of Immortality | |
| 1921–22
|Emergent Evolution (1923) and Life, Mind, and Spirit (1925) |{{ISBN|0-404-60468-4}} |
| 1924–25
|The Attributes of God | |
| 1926–28
|The faith of a moralist, The Theological Implications of Morality; Natural Theology and the Positive Religions (1930) | |
| 1929–30
|[https://books.google.com/books?id=jO8sAAAAMAAJ The Philosophy of the Good Life] (1930) | |
| 1930–32
|Faith, Hope & Charity in Primitive Religion | |
| 1935–36
|Christian Morality | |
| 1936–37
|[https://books.google.com/books?id=ChwGAAAACAAJ The Theology of the Early Greek Philosophers] (1936) | |
| 1937–38
|From Morality to Religion | |
| 1938
|Plato and the Orient | |
| 1939–40
|The Primacy of Faith | |
| 1946–48
|Christianity and Civilisation | |
| 1949–50
|The Modern Predicament | |
| 1951–53
|Reason, Belief and Goodness | |
| 1953–55
|On Selfhood and Godhood | |
| 1955–56
|Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science |{{ISBN|1-57392-694-9}} |
| 1959–60
|Norm and Action (1963){{cite web|url=https://www.giffordlectures.org/lectures/norm-and-action|title=Norm and Action|date=18 August 2014|website=The Gifford Lectures|access-date=15 June 2019|archive-date=27 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190227060616/https://www.giffordlectures.org/lectures/norm-and-action|url-status=dead}} and The Varieties of Goodness (1963){{cite web|url=http://www.giffordlectures.org/Browse.asp?PubID=TPVARG&Cover=TRUE|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080621141649/http://www.giffordlectures.org/Browse.asp?PubID=TPVARG&Cover=TRUE|url-status=dead|archive-date=21 June 2008|title=Gifford Lecture Series - Books|date=21 June 2008|access-date=15 June 2019}} | |
| 1962–64
|Authority in the Early Church | |
| 1964–66
|The Discipline of the Cave (1966), and The Transcendence of the Cave (1967) |{{ISBN|978-0-04-111002-9}} |
| 1967–69
|Concordant Discord. The Interdependence of Faiths. | |
| 1969–71
|Animal Nature and Human Nature | |
| 1972–73
|The Central Questions of Philosophy |{{ISBN|0-03-013116-2}} |
| 1975–77
|Fact, Faith and Fiction in the Development of Science | |
| 1977–78
|Myth, Magic and Denial | |
| 1979–80
|Religion and the One: Philosophies East and West | |
| 1980–81
|Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher | |
| 1982–83
|New Images of the Natural, 1750-1800 | |
| 1983–84
|In Search of Deity | |
| 1984–85
|Psychoanalytic Theory and Science | |
| 1986–87
|The Logic of Mortality | |
| 1988–89
|Tracks of Biology and the Creation of Sense | |
| 1990–91
|Renewing Philosophy | |
| rowspan=2|1992–93
|Nature, God and Humanity | |
| Roger Penrose
|The Question of Physical Reality | |
| 1995
|Thomas Reid and the Story of Epistemology | |
| 1996–97
|Thought and Reality | |
| rowspan=2|1998–99
|God and Being | |
| Marilyn McCord Adams
|The Coherence of Christology | |
| 2000–01
|With the Grain of the Universe: The Church's Witness and Natural Theology |{{ISBN|1-58743-016-9}} |
| 2002
|The Problem of Evil |{{ISBN|978-0-19-954397-7}} |
| 2004–05
|Science and Religion: Conflict or Concord | |
| 2007
|21st Century Science: Cosmic Perspective and Terrestrial Challenges | |
| 2010
|The Face of God | |
| 2012
|Genes, Determinism and God | |
| 2015
|Exemplarist Virtue Theory published as Exemplarist Moral Theory |{{ISBN|978-0-19-065584-6}} |
| 2017
|Though the Darkness Hide Thee: Seeking the Face of the Invisible God | |
| 2019
|Ontotheology as Antidote for Idolatry | |
| 2021
|The Disappearance of Ethics{{Cite web|date=2021-09-16|title=Gifford lectures 2021|url=https://gifford.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/gifford-lectures-2021/|access-date=2021-10-28|website=The St Andrews Gifford Lectures|language=en-GB}} | |
| 2024
|Transcendence for Beginners: Life Writing and Philosophy | |
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Established at the behest of John Templeton, the Gifford Lectures [https://www.giffordlectures.org website] was designed to increase the strategic impact of the Gifford program. Developed and managed by Templeton Press through May 2021, the website is now managed through a grant from Templeton Religion Trust.
References
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Bibliography
- Stanley Jaki, Lord Gifford and His Lectures: A Centenary Retrospect (1987). Scottish Academic Press, {{ISBN|0-7073-0465-2}}.
- Larry Witham, The Measure of God: Our Century-Long Struggle to Reconcile Science & Religion (2005), HarperSanFrancisco hardcover: {{ISBN|0-06-059191-9}}; reprinted as The Measure of God: History's Greatest Minds Wrestle with Reconciling Science and Religion (2006), paperback: {{ISBN|0-06-085833-8}}.
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