Hibbert Lectures

The Hibbert Lectures are an annual series of non-sectarian lectures on theological issues. 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'' ''...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 purpose

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*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

*1906 Franz Cumont (on Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism)
*1908 William James ''A Pluralistic Universe''
*1911 Lewis Richard Farnell ''The Higher Aspects of Greek Religion''
*1912 James Hope Moulton ''Early Zoroastrianism''
*1913 Josiah Royce ''The Problem of Christianity''
online edition (volume one)
*1913 David Samuel Margoliouth ''The Early Development of Mohammedanism''
*1914 Herbert A. Giles ''Confucianism and Its Rivals''
*1916 Louis de La Vallée-Poussin ''The Way to Nirvána: Ancient Buddhism as a Discipline of Salvation''
*1916 Philip H. Wicksteed ''The reactions between dogma & philosophy illustrated from the works of S. Thomas Aquinas''
*1919 Joseph Estlin Carpenter ''Theism in Medieval India''
*1920 William Ralph Inge "The State, Visible and Invisible"
*1921 James Moffatt ''The Approach to the New Testament''
*1922 Lawrence Pearsall Jacks ''Religious Perplexities''
*1923 Felix Adler ''The Reconstruction of the Spiritual Ideal''
*1924 Lawrence Pearsall Jacks ''Human consciousness towards God''
*1925 Francis Greenwood Peabody
*1929 Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan ''An Idealist View of Life''
*1930 Rabindranath Tagore ''The Religion of Man''
*1931 George Dawes Hicks ''The Philosophical Bases of Theism''
*1932 Robert Seymour Conway ''Ancient Italy and Modern Religion''
*1933 Lawrence Pearsall Jacks ''The Revolt Against Mechanism''
*1934 Albert Schweitzer ''Religion in Modern Civilization''
*1936 William Ernest Hocking ''Living Religions and a World Faith''
*1937 Gilbert Murray ''Liberality and Civilisation''

1950-1999

*1959 Basil Willey ''Darwin And Butler: Two Versions of Evolution''
*1963 James Luther Adams
*1964 Geoffrey Nuttall, Roger Thomas, Roy Drummond Whitehorn, Harry Lismer Short, ''The Beginnings of Nonconformity''
*1965 Frederick Hadaway Hilliard ''Christianity in education''
*1977 Jonathon Porritt, ''Bringing Religion Down to Earth''
*1979 Rustum Roy ''Experimenting with Truth''
*1989 Bede Griffiths, ''Christianity in the Light of the East''

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

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British lecture series
Religious education in the United Kingdom
Unitarianism in the United Kingdom
Recurring events established in 1878
1878 establishments in the United Kingdom