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The '''Hibbert Lectures''' are an annual series of non-sectarian lectures on theological issues.<ref>{{Cite Nuttall|title=Hibbert Lectures}}</ref> They are sponsored by the [[Hibbert Trust]], which was founded in 1847 by the [[Unitarianism|Unitarian]] [[Robert Hibbert (Anti-Trinitarian)|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]] ''[[s:The Religion of Ancient Egypt|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 (minister)|Charles Beard]] ''The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century in its Relation to Modern Thought and Knowledge''
*1884 [[Albert Reville]] ''[[s:The Native Religions of Mexico and Peru|The Native Religions of Mexico and Peru]]''
*1885 [[Otto Pfleiderer]] ''The Influence of the Apostle Paul on the Development of Christianity''
*1886 [[John Rhys]] ''[[s:Lectures on the origin and growth of religion as illustrated by Celtic heathendom|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}} <ref>''...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''[http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/joseph_mccabe/dictionary.html]</ref>
*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 (priest)|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'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=xNmqlEqyTTsC&dq=The+Problem+of+Christianity&pg=RA2-PR35 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 (professor)|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 (priest)|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 (religious author)|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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[[Category:Unitarianism in the United Kingdom]]
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Ajay Kumar at 09:20, 18 September 2023