Hibbert Lectures
# 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 ISBN 978-0-7661-0207-1
* 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
