The Gifford Lectures (/ˈɡɪfərd/) are an annual series of lectures which were established in 1887 by the will of Adam Gifford, Lord Gifford at the four...
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founder of the Gifford Lectures. Gifford was born in Edinburgh on 29 February 1820 to Katherine Ann (née West) (1786–1873) and James Gifford (1780–1862)...
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Max Müller (section Gifford Lectures)
original title of the lectures was 'Psychological Religion' but Müller felt compelled to add 'Theosophy' to it. Müller's final Gifford Lecture is significant...
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Terry Eagleton (section Terry and Gifford Lectures)
Terry Lectures and the University of Edinburgh's 2010 Gifford Lecture entitled The God Debate. He gave the 2010 Richard Price Memorial Lecture at Newington...
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Infinite in All Directions (category Gifford Lectures books)
theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson. The book is based on the author's Gifford Lectures delivered in Aberdeen in 1985. Infinite in All Directions can roughly...
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was also the first American theologian to deliver the prestigious Gifford Lectures at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland in over forty years. His...
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1964–65, Rockefeller Lectures (University of Chicago) in 1966, Kevorkian Lectures (New York University) in 1977, Gifford Lectures (University of Edinburgh)...
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The Nature and Destiny of Man (category Gifford Lectures books)
theologian Reinhold Niebuhr. The book is partly based on his 1939 Gifford Lectures. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked it the 18th-greatest non-fiction...
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The Life of the Mind (category Gifford Lectures books)
major exploration of the Mind. An invitation to deliver the 1973–1974 Gifford Lectures in Aberdeen (the first woman to do so), provided an incentive to gather...
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of Christian Philosophers from 1983 to 1986. He has delivered the Gifford Lectures twice and was described by Time magazine as "America's leading orthodox...
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August 2009 The Salisbury Review The Gifford Lectures 2010. University of St Andrews (Audio) The Stanton Lectures 2011–2012. University of Cambridge The...
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1959–60 Gifford Lectures, given at the University of St. Andrews) Norm and Action, 1963 (revised version of the first half of his Gifford lectures at St...
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She delivered the Gifford Lectures, entitled "Imagination and Understanding," at the University of Glasgow in 1992. These lectures would form some of...
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he delivered the Gifford Lectures at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, which were published as Religion and the One. These lectures attempted to "express...
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The Varieties of Religious Experience (category Gifford Lectures books)
edited Gifford Lectures on natural theology, which were delivered at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland between 1901 and 1902. The lectures concerned...
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the 1907–1908 Gifford Lectures at the University of Glasgow, entitled "Ideals of Religion." He also delivered the 1909 Adamson Lecture of the Victoria...
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The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror (category Gifford Lectures books)
Political Ethics in an Age of Terror is a lecture and book written by Michael Ignatieff as part of the Gifford Lectures. In it, Ignatieff considers the question...
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Theology. Tanner delivered the Warfield Lectures at Princeton Theological Seminary in 2007 and the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh in 2016...
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ISBN 978-0-679-41160-4. LCCN 96052730. OCLC 36066119. —— (2006) [Edited from 1985 Gifford Lectures, University of Glasgow]. Druyan, Ann (ed.). The Varieties of Scientific...
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The Mystery of Being (category Gifford Lectures books)
and Reality". First published in 1951, the book is a collection of Gifford Lectures given by Marcel while at the University of Aberdeen between 1949 and...
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The Gifford Lectures. University of Notre Dame Press. 1990. First Principles, Final Ends, and Contemporary Philosophical Issues. The Aquinas Lecture. Milwaukee:...
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at Wikisource Lewis Campbell biographical notes and Lectures available from the Gifford Lectures website Works by Lewis Campbell at Project Gutenberg...
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A Secular Age (category Gifford Lectures books)
2007 by Harvard University Press on the basis of Taylor's earlier Gifford Lectures (Edinburgh 1998–99). The noted sociologist Robert Bellah has referred...
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Professional Studies at King's College London. In 2009, he delivered the Gifford Lectures on A Fine-Tuned Universe: The Quest for God in Science and Theology...
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Prize, awarded by Prince Philip in Buckingham Palace. He gave the Gifford Lectures, University of Edinburgh, 1997–1998. He also served on the Advisory...
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Dean International for the Middle East. In 2016, she delivered the Gifford Lectures on Struggle, Suffering and Hope: Explorations in Islamic and Christian...
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Religion. In 2003 he was awarded a Centenary Medal. He delivered the 2011 Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh published as The Territories of Science...
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related to John Habgood. Biography – John Habgood, on the Gifford Lectures site. 2000–2001 lectures are online. John Habgood – God debates at Cambridge website...
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centres around the delivery of Whitehead's Gifford lectures in 1927–28 – following Arthur Eddington's lectures of the year previous – which Whitehead would...
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Schmidt-Leukel (2017). Religious Pluralism and Interreligious Theology: The Gifford Lectures. Orbis. pp. 220–222. ISBN 978-1-60833-695-1. [a] Björn Dahla (2006)...
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