Hibbert Lectures

Die Hibbert Lectures (englisch; Hibbert-Vorlesungen) s​ind eine jährliche Reihe v​on „unsectarian lectures“ z​u theologischen Themen.[1] Sie werden v​om Hibbert Trust gesponsert, d​er 1847 v​on dem Unitarier Robert Hibbert (1769–1849) m​it dem Ziel gegründet wurde, d​ie „uneingeschränkte Ausübung privater Urteile i​n religiösen Angelegenheiten“ („the unfettered exercise o​f private judgement i​n matters o​f religion“) aufrechtzuerhalten. Sie werden i​n unregelmäßigen Abständen i​n verschiedenen britischen Universitäten gehalten, o​ft im Harris Manchester College (bis 1996: Manchester College) a​n der University o​f Oxford. In d​en letzten Jahren wurden d​ie Lesungen v​on der BBC ausgestrahlt. Die folgende Übersicht erhebt keinen Anspruch a​uf Aktualität o​der Vollständigkeit

Lecturers (Auswahl)

1878–1894 (First Series)

1900–1949

  • 1906 Franz Cumont: (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
  • 1927 Willard Learoyd Sperry: The paradox of religion
  • 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
  • 1946 Henry Dewsbury Alves Major: Civilisation and Religious Values

1950–1999

  • 1953 Herbert Samuel, 1. Viscount Samuel: A Century's Changes of Outlook
  • 1957 A. Victor Murray : The state and the church in a free society
  • 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
  • 1984 Ursula King: Voices of Protest - Voice of Promise: Exploring Spirituality for a New Age
  • 1985 David Edward Jenkins: The God of Freedom and the Freedom of God
  • 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 und Khalid Hameed: Spirituality and global citizenship

Einzelnachweise und Fußnoten

  1. James Wood (Hrsg.): Hibbert Lectures". The Nuttall Encyclopædia. London and New York: Frederick Warne. („unsectarian lectures instituted by the trustees of Robert Hibbert, a West India merchant, devoted to the discussion of unsolved problems in theology.“)
  2. ...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 (infidels.org - abgerufen am 7. Oktober 2019)
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