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	Gifford Lectures - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Gifford Lectures were established by the will of Adam Lord Gifford (d.
		The lectures are given at the Scottish universities: University of St Andrews, University of Glasgow, University of Aberdeen and University of Edinburgh.
		A Gifford lectures appointment is one of the most prestigious honors in the field of the humanities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gifford_Lectures (744 words)

	Ralph McInerny - Characters in Search of Their Author: The Gifford Lectures, 1999-2000 - Reviewed by Thomas Williams, ...
		Ralph McInernyâs Gifford Lectures, published under the title Characters in Search of Their Author, must have delighted the âcultivated but non-professional audienceâ (xi) to which they were addressed.
		Lecture Three retells some of this history, this time beginning with two encyclicals that called for creative philosophical resistance to the atheistic tendencies of modern thought: Gaudium et spes (1965) and Aeterni Patris (1879).
		The standard philosopher, who in the First Lecture was a self-described paragon of reason (âHe ponders the question, he considers solutions, he weighs the possibilities, he makes his dispassionate judgmentâ [7]), is now a proponent of Nietzschean unreason, of anything-goes Protagorean relativism.
	ndpr.nd.edu /review.cfm?id=1288 (1513 words)

	The Varieties of Religious Experience - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature is a book by the pioneering Harvard psychologist William James that comprises his edited Gifford Lectures on "Natural Theology" delivered at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland between 1901 and 1902.
		These lectures concerned the nature of religion and the neglect of science, in James' view, in the academic study of religion.
		In his lectures, James asserted that these claims, while perhaps historically or epistemologically interesting, play no role in the separate question of religion's value.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Varieties_of_Religious_Experience (871 words)

	Gifford Lecture Series - History of the Gifford Lectures
		Forthcoming Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh
		Forthcoming Gifford Lectures at the University of Glasgow
		In recent years the Gifford lectures at Edinburgh have been delivered by Mohammed Arkoun, Professor Emeritus of Islamic Thought at the Sorbonne ("Inaugurating a Critique of Islamic Reason") and Michael Ignatieff, Director of the Carr Center of Human Rights Policy at Harvard University ("The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in a Time of Terror").
	www.giffordlectures.org /online.asp (803 words)

	University of Edinburgh News & Events - Gifford Lectures 2004/05
		The Gifford Lectures are held at each of the four ancient Scottish universities.
		The lectures, held at each of the four ancient Scottish universities, were established under the will of Adam Lord Gifford, a Senator of the College of Justice, who died in 1887.
		For over a century, the Gifford Lectures have enabled a distinguished international field of scholars to contribute to the advancement of theological and philosophical thought.
	www.ed.ac.uk /news/giffordlectures0405.html (549 words)

	The Gifford Lectures - 1999/2000
		An introductory lecture to the study as a whole focusing on why in contemporary culture the question of God has returned in so many areas (science, literary theory, philosophy, theology) with such force and in such new forms.
		This lecture will continue the study of religious forms by studying the emergence, in the religious traditions, of the two highly reflective religious forms, the meditative and the prophetic and their relationship to the primal forms of manifestation (participation) and proclamation (distanciation).
		The lecture will concentrate on the difference between 'early' modern philosophical analyses of religion (e.g., Nicolas of Cusa and Bruno) and the classic Enlightenment's development of the critique of religion (especially Hume and Kant).
	www.hss.ed.ac.uk /Admin/Gifford/Gifford99.html (723 words)

	Science & Theology News - Human minds fall short in ‘The Measure of God’ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Despite this unfortunate beginning, the Giffords went on to invite 220 lecturers over a period of 117 years in a lecture series that covered the major intellectual movements surrounding the conversation between theology and science.
		Witham suggests that the lasting impact of the lectures is that they represent the rise and fall of intellectual fads.
		The impression is that the Gifford lectures are trendier than a teenage girl — not much lasts except for the work of Barth, which continues to haunt the study of theology today.
	www.stnews.org /Books-1752.htm (469 words)

	TheologyBooks.com \| FEATURE CONTENT : The Gifford Lectures [Theology]
		Since their inception, the Gifford Lectures have become the foremost intellectual event in the matter of religion.
		Lectures are given in the universities at Edinburgh, St.Andrews, Glasgow and Aberdeen.
		The lecturers have included a prestigious and broad cross section of scholars from such fields as religion, philosophy, physics, and history, and have included scholars such as Etienne Gilson, Arthur Eddington, William Temple, Karl Barth, Steven Runciman, Neils Bohr, Paul Tillich, and William Ramsay, to name just a few.
	www.theologybooks.com /site/feature.cfm?tkey=70 (250 words)

	Events at The University of Edinburgh - Gifford Lectures
		The Gifford Lectureships were established in 1888 by Adam Lord Gifford (1820—1887), a senator of the College of Justice in Scotland.
		The purpose of Lord Gifford's bequest to the universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, St. Andrews and Aberdeen was to sponsor lectures to “promote and diffuse the study of Natural Theology in the widest sense of the term—in other words, the knowledge of God”.
		The Gifford Lecturers' are recognised as pre-eminent thinkers in their respective fields.
	www.ed.ac.uk /explore/av/gifford (328 words)

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		In the concluding section of the lecture he refers to the religious literature of India where one can trace (i) a highly specialized class devoted to the study of sacred formulas and ritual techniques and (ii) a movement of theological thought and speculation concerning ultimate religious truths.
		In lecture V dealing with the Priesthood and Sacrifice as one of the "Sources of Religious Knowledge and the Religious Organs of Society'", four of the eight sections comprising 10 pages focus on India.
		In the last section of the lecture Dawson remarks on the relation between the priest and the man of learning in the higher cultures and these have also tended to be the chief interpreters and intermediaries between different cultures.
	www.ewtn.com /library/HOMELIBR/INDIA2.TXT (1014 words)

	The Gifford Lectures
		The Gifford Lectureships, which are held at the Universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and St. Andrews, were established under the will of Adam Lord Gifford, a Senator of the College of Justice, who died in 1887.
		His published Gifford Lectures of 1901-02 on The Varieties of Religious Experience: a Study of Human Nature are widely regarded as the most important American work on religion.
		Her Gifford lectures led to the publication of Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals.
	www.hss.ed.ac.uk /Admin/Gifford (708 words)

	Science & Theology News - Gifford Lectures forge ahead into the future (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In his day, however, Gifford was not only interested in the religious aspects of the discussion, but was intrigued by the thoughts of philosophers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Baruch Spinoza.
		In 1902, William James’ lectures, titled “The Varieties of Religious Experience,” were among the first to bring widespread recognition and prestige to the series.
		Some Gifford lecturers have used natural theology to unify the seemingly disparate domains of science and religion, said Brooke.
	www.stnews.org /News-1750.htm (1150 words)

	History News Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Gifford Lectures is "an endowed lectureship at four Scottish universities on metaphysics, natural religion, and the foundations of ethics, and arguably the most prestigious academic lectureship in the English-speaking world." Not all of them have been, but the lectures are given with the intention that they will be published.
		There is some excuse for historians being less familiar with the Gifford Lectures than, say, philosophers and religionists, but a number of the lectures are of interest to historians, including those by Rudolph Bultmann, Herbert Butterfield, Owen Chadwick, Christopher Dawson, W. Fowler, H. Gwatkin, W. Ramsay, R. Southern, and Arnold Toynbee.
		His "lectures were apparently so bad he went from a lecture hall of hundreds to less than ten stubborn advanced physics students; and they all remembered the lectures as monotonous to the point of horror."
	hnn.us /blogs/entries/8646.html (387 words)

	HERE-NOW4U :Bosch, Lourens Peter van den :Theosophy or Pantheism?
		The three principal themes of his Gifford lectures on natural religion were the discovery of God, the discovery of the soul, and the discovery of the oneness of God and soul in the great religions of the world, a rather ambitious program, as he admitted himself.
		Chief object of his lectures on anthropological religion was to show the genesis and growth of the concept of the human soul, which in his opinion was the necessary counterpart of God in every religion and therefore regarded as the immortal element in man.
		Müller named his last course of Gifford lectures 'Psychological Religion or Theosophy', but he knew that this last title could be misunderstood, as the word was already used by Madame Blavatski and Colonel Olcott for their occult doctrines, in which eastern and western ideas were blended.
	www.here-now4u.de /eng/theosophy_or_pantheism__friedr.htm (8852 words)

	Theology Today - Vol 36, No. 2 - July 1979 - CRITIC'S CORNER - New Science, Old Apologetic
		The subject of most of the lectures has been philosophy and religion, rather than science and religion, and most of the lecturers have been professional philosophers; only a minority have been scientists.
		It is a main part of his thesis that all scientists have worked on the basis of a philosophy (methaphysics and epistemology), and at times, he suggests, their scientific conclusions have been dictated by their philosophical premises.
		And if readers do turn to Mascall's lectures, they will not find them helpful, for while Mascall plunges into natural theology (of which he has a strict concept), it is not from the road of science but from the path of philosophical reflection that he takes off.
	theologytoday.ptsem.edu /jul1979/v36-2-criticscorner2.htm (1641 words)

	Library of America: William James: Writings 1902-1910
		The first three courses of lectures were delivered from notes: five lectures at Wellesley College, February 28 to March 10, 1905; five lectures at the University of Chicago, June 30 to July 7, 1905; and a series of lectures at Glenmore in Keene, New York, July 28 to August 3, 1905.
		In preparation for eight lectures to be given at the Lowell Institute in Boston from November 14 to December 8, 1906, James began the actual writing that would become the book, and he was still writing the later lectures after he began delivering the first ones.
		Lecture VIII, "Conclusions," appeared as "Pluralism and Religion" (July 1908); Lecture III as "Hegel and His Method" (October 1908); Lecture IV "Concerning Fechner," as "The Doctrine of the Earth-Soul and of Beings Intermediate Between Man and God.
	www.loa.org /volume.jsp?RequestID=66§ion=notes (2585 words)

	PRESS RELEASE Prestigious Scholarly Lecture Material Available for First Time Through Searchable Database in Electronic ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Gifford Lectures, established by bequest of the jurist Adam Lord Gifford (1820-1887), have been delivered at the Universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and St. Andrews, almost every year since 1888.
		Among the renowned lecturers are William James, John Dewey, Albert Schweitzer, Karl Barth, and Stanley Jaki.
		Under the direction of Larry Pullen, Gifford Lectures project manager, 160 additional books will be scanned and added to the site over the next couple of years, bringing it up to the most current lectures.
	www.marketwire.com /mw/release_html_b1?release_id=92262 (619 words)

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		In addition to two Gifford Lectures, in the past 10 months Baker has delivered papers at Harvard, Brown, Calvin College, the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, the New University of Lisbon in Portugal, and the International Center for Semiotic and Cognitive Studies in San Marino.
		The Glasgow Gifford Lectures were incorporated within the framework of the festival in a special format that included five speakers, each of whom gave two lectures and participated in a round table discussion.
		The theme of the lectures is "The Nature and Limits of Human Understanding." Baker gave a talk on "First-person Knowledge" Sept. 4 and "Third-person Understanding" Sept. 7.
	www.umass.edu /chronicle/archives/01/09-07/baker2.html (760 words)

	Theology Today - Vol 22, No. 4 - January 1966 - BOOK REVIEW - The Relevance Of Science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The author of these ten Gifford Lectures for 1959-60 is a distinguished theoretical physicist and philosopher.
		A second series of the Gifford Lectures by the same author is to appear later.
		Throughout the present volume the author refers to topics which are to be covered in the later lectures, and while this whets the reader's appetite for what is to come, it leaves him with a sense of incompleteness as lie reads this series.
	theologytoday.ptsem.edu /jan1966/v22-4-bookreview2.htm (890 words)

	Gifford Lectures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		With the Grain of the Universe: The Church's Witness and Natural Theology: Being Gifford Lectures Delivered at the University of St. Andrews in 2001 by Stanley Hauerwas (Brazos) Stanley Hauerwas is a no-nonsense, confessional Christian theologian whose scholarship, sometimes disputed yet always demanding a response, has earned him a prominent reputation on the theological horizon.
		These lectures explore how natural theology, divorced from a confessional doctrine of God, inevitably distorts our understanding of God's character and the world in which we live.
		Excerpted from With the Grain of the Universe : The Church's Witness and Natural Theology : Being Gifford Lectures Delivered at the University of St. Andrews in 2001 by Stanley Hauerwas.
	www.wordtrade.com /religion/giffordlecturesR.htm (559 words)

	Gifford Lecture Series - Over 100 Years of Renowned Lectures on Natural Theology
		Given the variety of disciplines represented by the lectures and the renown of the lecturers, the information contained in this database is invaluable for scholars around the world.
		The prestigious Gifford Lectureships were established by Adam Lord Gifford (1820–1887), a senator of the College of Justice in Scotland.
		Since the first lecture in 1888, Gifford Lecturers have been recognized as pre-eminent thinkers in their respective fields.
	www.giffordlectures.org (802 words)

	Gifford Lectures inspired by famous murder - [Sunday Herald]
		SCOTLAND’S world-famous Gifford Lectures were inspired by the “injustices” of a 19th century Glasgow murder mystery, according to a new book.
		Author Larry Witham argues that Gifford was profoundly affected by The Sandyford Mystery, the popular name for a trial in which he was the chief prosecutor.
		In 1885, Lord Gifford signed his will and included a provision for a series of lectures to be held in Scotland on natural theology.
	www.sundayherald.com /51283 (448 words)

	About the Gifford Lectures 2003: Wandering in Darkness - University of Aberdeen
		The Gifford Lectures aim to 'promote and diffuse the study of Natural Theology in the widest sense of the term - in other words the knowledge of God'.
		Established under the will of Lord Gifford, a Senator of the College of Justice who died in 1887, theologians and scholars are invited to deliver lectures at the universities of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow and St Andrews.
		Contained in that will was a provision for a series of lectures to be held at each of the four Universities of Scotland.
	www.abdn.ac.uk /~wdu002/conferences/gifford/about.shtml (351 words)

	At lectures, Elshtain will speak on sovereignty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Jean Bethke Elshtain was recently awarded the Gifford Lectureship, one of the most prestigious honors in the field of religious studies.
		The Gifford Lectureship was endowed by John Gifford, a Scottish Lord, who decided in 1885 that there should be an award to promote the “knowledge of God” in the field of natural theology.
		To this end Elshtain has chosen the idea of “sovereignty” as the subject of her Gifford lectures, hoping to introduce a variety of aspects that relate to sovereignty and affect people day by day.
	maroon.uchicago.edu /news/articles/2005/01/18/at_lectures_elshtain.php (678 words)

	Press Releases - Templeton Foundation Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Gifford Lectures, whose focus is on natural theology, have been sponsored by four Scottish Universities for over one hundred years.
		Since the first lecture in 1888, Gifford lecturers have been recognized as preeminent thinkers in their respective fields.
		The Gifford Lectures have been delivered in each of the four ancient universities of Scotland for over a century.
	www.templetonpress.org /pressrelease_05June.asp (694 words)

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