Bampton Lectures

For the lectures at Columbia University, see Bampton Lectures (Columbia University).
Philip Micklem (1876–1965), an Anglican priest who delivered the 1946 Bampton Lectures

The Bampton Lectures at the University of Oxford, England, were founded by a bequest of John Bampton. 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 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
  • 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
  • 1790 – Henry Kett 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
  • 1806 – John Browne, Fellow of Corpus Christi College Sermons preached before the University of Oxford
  • 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'
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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

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
  • 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 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
  • 1846 – Augustus Short The Witness of the Spirit with our Spirit
  • 1847 – Walter Augustus Shirley
  • 1848 – Edward Garrard Marsh The Christian Doctrine of Sanctification
  • 1849 – Richard Michell The Nature and Comparative Value of the Christian Evidences

1850–1874

1875–1899

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[3]
  • 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"
  • 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
  • 2011 – Frances Young
    • From pondering scripture to the first principles of Christian Theology
    • From cosmology to doxology: reading Genesis alongside Plato and Darwin
    • From creation to re-creation: nature and the naked ape
    • From image to likeness: incarnation and theosis
    • From Adam and Eve to Mary and Christ: sin, redemption, atonement
    • From inspiration to sanctification: the spirit of wisdom and holiness
    • From the Church to Mary: towards a critical ecumenism
    • From dogma to theoria: God as Trinity
  • 2013 – Michael Banner Imagining life: Christ and the human condition
  • 2015 – David F. Ford, Daring Spirit: John's Gospel Now
  • 2017 – George Pattison A Phenomenology of the Devout Life
  • 2019 – Peter Harrison Rethinking Relations Between Science and Religion YouTube
  • 2021 – Jessica Martin "Four-Dimensional Eucharist"

See also