The Bampton Lecture Series

Extract from the Last Will and Testament of the Late Rev. John Bampton, M.A. Canon of Salisbury

I direct and appoint, that a Lecturer be yearly chosen by the Heads of Colleges only, and by no others, to preach eight Divinity Lecture Sermons, upon either of the following Subjects—to confirm and establish the Christian Faith, and to confute all heretics and schismatics—upon the divine authority of the holy Scriptures—upon the authority of the writings of the primitive Fathers, as to the faith and practice of the primitive Church—upon the Divinity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ—upon the Divinity of the Holy Ghost—upon the Articles of the Christian Faith, as comprehended in the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds, &c.

Bampton Lectures

• 1780 – Eight Sermons Preached before the University of Oxford—James Bandinel [1733-1804]

• 1781 – Eight Sermons preached before the University of Oxford—Timothy Neve [1724-1798]

• 1782 – The Prophecies and Testimony of John the Baptist, and the parallel Prophecies of Jesus Christ—Robert Holmes [1748-1805]

• 1783 – Eight sermons preached before the University of Oxford—John Cobb

• 1784 – Mahometism and Christianity—Joseph White [1745-1814]

• 1785 – On the Prophecies Respecting the Destruction of Jerusalem—Ralph Churton [1754-1831]

• 1786 – Eight Sermons preached before the University of Oxford—George Croft [1747-1809]

• 1787 – Discourses on Scripture Mysteries—William Hawkins [1722-1801]

• 1788 – The Ground and Credibility of the Christian Religion—Richard Shepherd [1732?-1809]

• 1789 – Chart and Scale of Truth—Edward Tatham [1749-1834]

• 1790 – A Representation of the Conduct and Opinions of the Primitive Christians, with Remarks on Gibbon and Priestley—Henry Kett [1761-1825]

• 1791 – Eight sermons preached before the University of Oxford—Robert Morres

• 1792 – Eight Sermons Preached before the University of Oxford—John Eveleigh [1748-1814]

• 1793 – The Truth, Inspiration, Authority, and End of the Scriptures, considered and defended—James Williamson

• 1794 – Expediency, Prediction, and Accomplishment of the Christian Redemption Illustrated—Thomas Wintle

• 1795 – The Doctrine of Atonement illustrated and defended—Daniel Veysie

• 1796 – Sermons on the Principles Upon Which the Reformation of the Church of England was Established—Robert Gray [1762-1834]

• 1797 – Objections of Infidel Historians and Other Writers Against Christianity—William Finch [1747-1810]

• 1798 – Fulness of Time—Charles Henry Hall [1763-1827]

• 1799 – Answers to some Popular Objections against the Necessity or the Credibility of the Christian Revelation—William Barrow [1754-1836]

• 1800 – The Divine Origin of Prophecy Illustrated and Defended—George Richards [1767-1837]

• 1801 – Horae Mosaicae—George Stanley Faber [1773-1854]

• 1802 – Religious Enthusiasm—George Frederic Nott [1767-1841]

• 1803 – Sermons on the Mission and Character of Christ and on the Beatitudes—John Farrer [1760-1838]

• 1804 – An attempt to illustrate those articles of the Church of England, which the Calvinists improperly consider as Calvinistical—Richard Laurence [1760-1838]

• 1805 – A View of the Evidences of Christianity at the End of the Pretended Age of Reason—Edward Nares 1762-1841]

• 1806 – Sermons preached before the University of Oxford—John Browne

• 1807 – The Nature and Guilt of Schism—Thomas Le Mesurier [1756-1822]

• 1808 – An Attempt to Prove the Truth of Christianity—John Penrose [1778-1859]

• 1809 – A view of the Brahminical religion—John Bayley Somers Carwithen

• 1810 – Certain Principles in Evanson's Dissonance of the 'Four generally received Evangelists'—Thomas Falconer [1772-1839]

• 1811 – The Truth and Consistency of Divine Revelation—John Bidlake [1755-1814]

• 1812 – An Appeal to the Gospel—Richard Mant [1776-1848]

• 1813 – A Key to the Writings of the Principal Fathers of the Christian Church who flourished during the first three centuries—John Collinson

• 1814 – The General Principles of Scripture-Interpretation—William Van Mildert [1765-1836]

• 1815 – The Personality and Office of the Christian Comforter—Reginald Heber [1783-1826]

• 1816 – Christian Union Doctrinally and Historically Considered—John Hume Spry

• 1817 – The Divine Authority of Holy Scripture—John Miller

• 1818 – The Doctrines of Unitarians Examined—Charles Abel Moysey

• 1819 – A Compressed View of the Religious Principles and Practices of the Age—Hector Davies Morgan

• 1820 – The Claims of the Established Church to exclusive attachment and support, and the Dangers which menace her from Schism and Indifference, considered—Godfrey Faussett [c.1781-1853]

• 1821 – The Moral Tendency of Divine Revelation—John Jones [1775-1834]

• 1822 – The Use and Abuse of Party Feeling in Matters of Religion—Richard Whately [1787-1863]

• 1823 – The Mental Condition Necessary to a due Inquiry into Religious Evidence—Charles Goddard

• 1824 – An Attempt to Trace the History and to Ascertain the Limits of the Secondary and Spiritual Interpretation of Scripture—John Josias Conybeare [1779-1824]

• 1825 – The Scheme of Divine Revelation Considered—George Chandler [1779?-1859]

• 1826 – The Benefits Annexed to a Participation in the Two Christian Sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's Supper—William Brougham

• 1827 – Character and Conduct of the Apostles Considered as an Evidence of Christianity—Henry Hart Milman [1791-1868]

• 1828 – The Religious Necessity of the Reformation—Thomas Horne

• 1829 – Inquiry into the Heresies of the Apostolic Age—Edward Burton [1794-1836]

• 1830 – An inquiry into the doctrines of the Anglo-Saxon church—Henry Soames [1785-1860]

• 1831 – The Popular Evidence of Christianity—Thomas William Lancaster [1787-1869]

• 1832 – The Scholastic Philosophy considered in its relation to Christian Theology—Renn Dickson Hampden [1793-1868]

• 1833 – Analogy of Revelation and Science Established—Frederick Nolan [1784-1864]

• 1834 – An Attempt to illustrate those Articles of the Church of England which the Calvinists improperly consider as Calvinistical—Richard Laurence [1760-1838]

• 1836 – Eight Sermons—Charles Atmore Ogilvie

• 1837 – The Principal Objections against the Doctrine of the Trinity—Thomas Stuart Lyle Vogan

• 1838 – The Authoritative Teaching of the Church—Henry Arthur Woodgate

• 1839 – An analytical examination into ... the writings of the Christian Fathers during the Ante-Nicene period—William Daniel Conybeare [1787-1857]

• 1840 – Connected Principles—Edward Hawkins [1789-1882]

• 1841 – Samuel Wilberforce was invited to lecture but withdrew following the death of his wife Emily

• 1842 – Christ, as Prophet, Priest, and King—James Garbett [1802-1879]

• 1843 – The Past and Prospective Extension of the Gospel By Missions to the Heathen—Anthony Grant

• 1844 – An inquiry into the means of grace, their mutual connection, and combined use, with especial reference to the Church of England—Richard Wiliam Jelf [1798-1871]

• 1845 – Justification—Charles Abel Heurtley [1806-1895]

• 1846 – The Witness of the Spirit with our Spirit—Augustus Short [1802-1883]

• 1847 – The Supremacy of Holy Scripture—Walter Augustus Shirley [1797-1847]

• 1848 – The Christian Doctrine of Sanctification—Edward Garrard Marsh

• 1849 – The Nature and Comparative Value of the Christian Evidences—Richard Michell [1803-1888]

• 1850 – The Resurrection of the Body—Edward Meyrick Goulburn [1818-1897]

• 1851 – The Communion of Saints—Henry Bristow Wilson [1803-1888]

• 1852 – The Natural History of Infidelity and Superstition in contrast with Christian Faith—Joseph Esmond Riddle [1804-1859]

• 1853 – The Atoning Work of Christ viewed in Relation to some Ancient Theories—William Thomson [1819-1890]

• 1854 – New Testament Millenarianism—Samuel Waldegrave [1817-1869]

• 1855 – The Absence of Precision in the Formularies of the Church of England—John Ernest Bode [1816-1874]

• 1856 – The Mosaic Dispensation Considered as Introductory to Christianity—Edward Arthur Litton

• 1857 – Christian Faith, Comprehensive, not Partial; Definite, not Uncertain— William Edward Jelf [1811-1875]

• 1858 – The Limits of Religious Thought—Henry Longueville Mansel [1820-1871]

• 1859 – Historic Evidence for the Truth of the Christian Records—George Rawlinson [1812-1902]

• 1860 – On Sunday: its Origin, History, and Present Obligation—James Augustus Hessey [1814-1892]

• 1861 – The Mission and Extension of the Church at Home—John Sandford [1801-1873]

• 1862 – A Critical History of Free Thought in reference to the Christian Religion—Adam Storey Farrar [1826-1905]

• 1863 – The Relation between the Divine and Human Elements in Holy Scripture—John Hannah [1818-1888]

• 1864 – The Progress of Doctrine in the New Testament—Thomas Dehany Bernard [1815-1904]

• 1865 – Miracles—James Bowling Mozley [1813-1878]

• 1866 – The Divinity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ—Henry Parry Liddon [1829-1890]

• 1867 – Dogmatic Faith, an inquiry into the relation subsisting between revelation and dogma—Edward Garbett [1817-1887]

• 1868 – The Administration of the Holy Spirit in the Body of Christ—George Moberly [1803-1885]

• 1869 – Prophecy a Preparation for Christ—Robert Payne Smith [1818-1895]

• 1870 – Christianity as Taught by St. Paul—William Josiah Irons [1812-1883]

• 1871 – Dissent, in Its Relation to the Church of England—George Herbert Curteis [1824-1894]

• 1872 – The Permanence of Christianity—John Richard Turner Eaton [1825-?]

• 1873 – Characteristics of Christian Morality—Isaac Gregory Smith [1826-1920]

• 1874 – The Religion of the Christ—Stanley Leathes [1830-1900]

• 1875 – The Doctrine of Retribution—William Jackson [1817?-1891?]

• 1876 – The Witness of the Psalms to Christ and Christianity—William Alexander [1824-1911]

• 1877 – Christian evidences viewed in relation to modern thought—Charles Adolphus Row [1816-1896]

• 1878 – Zechariah and his Prophecies Considered in Relation to Modern Criticism—Charles Henry Hamilton Wright [1836-1909]

• 1879 – The Foundations of Faith—Henry Wace [1836-1924]

• 1880 – The Origin of Early Christian Churches—Edwin Hatch [1835-1889]

• 1881 – The One Religion: truth, holiness and peace desired by the nations, and revealed by Jesus Christ— John Wordsworth [1843-1911]

• 1882 – The One Mediator—Peter Goldsmith Medd [1829-1908]

• 1883 – The World as the Subject of Redemption—William Henry Fremantle [1831-1916]

• 1884 – The Relations between Religion and Science—Frederick Temple [1821-1902]

• 1885 – The History of Interpretation—Frederic William Farrar [1831-1903]

• 1886 – The Christian Platonists of Alexandria—Charles Bigg [1840-1908]

• 1887 – Permanent Elements of Religion—William Boyd Carpenter [1841-1918]

• 1888 – The Letter and the Spirit—Robert Edward Bartlett [1830?-1904]

• 1889 – The Origin and Contents of the Psalter—Thomas Kelly Cheyne [1841-1915]

• 1890 – Modern Criticism considered in its Relation to the Fourth Gospel—Henry William Watkins [1844-1922]

• 1891 – The Incarnation of the Son of God—Charles Gore [1853-1932]

• 1892 – Some Light of Science on the Faith—Alfred Barry [1826-1910]

• 1893 –Inspiration— William Sanday [1843-1920]

• 1894 – Personality, Human and Divine—John Richardson Illingworth [1848-1915]

• 1895 – Christian Ethics—Thomas Banks Strong [1861-1944]

• 1897 – Aspects of the Old Testament—Robert Lawrence Ottley [1856-1933]

• 1899 – Christian Mysticism—William Ralph Inge [1860-1954]

• 1901 – Regnum Dei—Archibald Robertson [1853-1931]

• 1903 – The Influence of Christianity Upon National Character—William Holden Hutton [1860-1930]

• 1905 – Christian Theology and Social Progress—Frederick William Bussell

• 1907 – Reproach of the Gospel: An Inquiry into the Apparent Failure of Christianity— James Hamilton Francis Peile [1863-1940]

• 1909 – Church and the World: in Idea and in History—Walter Hobhouse [1862-1928]

• 1911 – Creed and the Creeds: Their Function in Religion—John Huntley Skrine [1848-1923]

• 1913 – The Church in Rome in the First Century— George Edmundson [1848-1930]

• 1915 –The Idea of Atonement in Christian Theology—Hastings Rashdall [1858-1924]

• 1920 – Doctrine of the Church and Christian Reunion—Arthur Cayley Headlam [1862-1947]

• 1922 – Religion Since the Reformation—Leighton Pullan [1865-1940]

• 1924 – The Ideas of the Fall and of Original Sin—Norman Powell Williams [1883-1943]

• 1926 – New Testament Doctrine of the Christ—Alfred Edward John Rawlinson [1884-1960]

• 1928 – The Vision of God: The Christian Doctrine of the Summum Bonum—Kenneth Escott Kirk [1886-1954]

• 1930 – Psychology and God a study of the implications of recent psychology for religious belief and practice—Laurence Grensted [1884-1964]

• 1932 – Buddha and the Christ—Burnett Hillman Streeter [1874-1937]

• 1934 – History and Interpretation in the Gospels—Robert Henry Lightfoot [1883-1953]

• 1936 – Time and eternity in Christian thought—Frank Herbert Brabant [1892-1972]

• 1938 – Prophecy and Divination among the Hebrews and other Semites— Alfred Guillaume [1888-1965]

• 1940 – Fathers and Heretics—George Leonard Prestige [1889-1955]

• 1942 – The Church and the Papacy: a Historical Study—Trevor Gervase Jalland [1898-1975]

• 1944 – Christian Education—Spencer Leeson [1892-1956]

• 1946 – The Secular and the Sacred—Philip Arthur Micklem [1876-1965]

• 1948 – The Glass of Vision 1950–1999—Austin Farrer [1904-1968]

• 1952 – Early Christian Interpretations of History—Robert Leslie Pollington Milburn [1907-2000]

• 1954 – The Pattern of Christian Truth: A Study in the Relations Between Orthodoxy and Heresy in the Early Church—Henry Ernest William Turner [1907-1995]

• 1955 – Christianity and the State in the Light of History—Thomas Maynard Parker [1906-1985]

• 1956 – Christian Theology and Natural Science: Some Questions on their Relations—E. L. Mascall [1905-1993]

• 1958 – He Ascended Into Heaven—John Gordon Davies [1919-1990]

• 1960 - "Counsel and Consent"—Eric Waldram Kemp

• 1962 – History Sacred and Profane—Alan Richardson

• 1964 – Church and Christian Union—Stephen Neill

• 1966 – The Glory of Man—David Edward Jenkins

• 1968 – Traditional Symbols and the Contemporary World—Frederick William Dillistone

• 1970 – Christ and Christianity: a study in origins in the light of St Paul—Cheslyn Jones

• 1972 –"The Limits of Radicalism"—Howard E. Root

• 1974 – The Forgotten Dream: Experience, Hope and God—Peter Baelz

• 1976 – God As Spirit—Geoffrey W. H. Lampe

• 1978 – Creation and the World of Science— A. R. Peacocke

• 1980 – Jesus and the Constraints of History—Anthony E. Harvey

• 1982 – Holiness and Politics— Peter Hinchcliff

• 1984 – The Priority of John—J. A. T. Robinson

• 1986 – God's Action in the World—Maurice Wiles

• 1988 –"People of the Book?"—John Barton

• 1990 – Genesis of Doctrine: a Study in the Foundations of Doctrinal Criticism—Alister E. McGrath

• 1992 – The One, the Three and the Many: God, Creation and the Culture of Modernity—Colin Gunton

• 1994 – The School Tradition of the Old Testament—Eric William Heaton

• 1996 – Christ in All Things: Exploring Spirituality With Teilhard De Chardin—Ursula King

• 2000 – Varieties of Unbelief—John Habgood

• 2001 – Church, State and Civil Society—David Fergusson

• 2003 – The Ways of Judgment—Oliver O'Donovan

• 2005 – Seeing the world and knowing God: ancient wisdom and modern doctrine— Paul S. Fiddes

• 2007 – Religion, Citizenship and Liberal Pluralism—Raymond Plant

• 2009 – Catholic Particularity in Seventeenth-Century French Writing: Christianity is Strange—Richard Parish

• 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 – Imagining life: Christ and the human condition—Michael Banner

• 2015 – Daring Spirit: John's Gospel Now—David F. Ford

• 2017 – A Phenomenology of the Devout Life—George Pattison

• 2019 – Rethinking Relations Between Science and Religion—Peter Harrison

• 2021 – "Four-Dimensional Eucharist"—Jessica Martin

• 2022 – The Age of Hitler, and how e can escape it—Alex Ryrie

• 2023 – Jesus and the Displaced: Christology and the Redemption of Habitation—Willie James

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