Gifford Lectures

As Gifford Lectures são séries anuais de palestras estabelecidas por vontade de Adam Gifford (Lord Gifford), morto em 1887. Foram estabelecidas para "promover e difundir o estudo da teologia natural no sentido mais amplo do termo — em outras palavras, o conhecimento de Deus." A indicação para as palestras Gifford é uma das mais prestigiosas honrarias na academia escocêsa. As palestras são proferidas em diversas universidades da Escócia: Universidade de St Andrews, Universidade de Glasgow, Universidade de Aberdeen e Universidade de Edimburgo. São normalmente apresentadas como uma série ao longo de um ano acadêmico e apresentadas com o intuito de que seu conteúdo editado seja publicado em forma de livro. Diversas destas obras tornaram-se clássicos nos campos da teologia ou filosofia e a relação entre religião e ciência.

Palestras notáveis

Aberdeen

1898–1900 Josiah Royce The World and the Individual
1907-1908 Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch The Science and Philosophy of the Organism
1914–1915 William Ritchie Sorley Moral Values and the Idea of God
1930–1932 Étienne Gilson The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy
1936–1938 Karl Barth The Knowledge of God and the Service of God according to the Teaching of the Reformation
1949–1950 Gabriel Marcel The Mystery of Being ISBN 1-890318-85-X, Faith and Reality ISBN 1-890318-86-8
1951–1952 Michael Polanyi Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy, ISBN 0-226-67288-3
1953–1954 Paul Tillich Systematic Theology (3 vols.): ISBN 0-226-80337-6, ISBN 0-226-80338-4, ISBN 0-226-80339-2
1963, 1965 Alister Hardy The Living Stream, The Divine Flame
1965–1967 Raymond Aron La Conscience historique dans la pensée et dans l'action
1973 Hannah Arendt Life of the Mind
1982–1984 Richard Swinburne The Evolution of the Soul, ISBN 0-19-823698-0
1984–1985 Freeman Dyson Infinite In All Directions, ISBN 0-06-072889-2
1989–1991 Ian Barbour Religion in an Age of Science, ISBN 0-06-060383-6
1992–1993 Jaroslav Pelikan Christianity and Classical Culture: The Metamorphosis of Natural Theology in the Christian Encounter With Hellenism, ISBN 0-300-06255-9
1994–1995 John W. Rogerson Faith and Criticism in the Work of William Robertson Smith, 1846-1894
1994–1995 M. A. Stewart New Light and Enlightenment
1994–1995 Peter Jones Science and Religion before and after Hume
1994–1995 James H. Burns The Order of Nature
1994–1995 Alexander Broadie The Shadow of Scotus
1997–1998 Russell Stannard The God Experiment
2000–2001 John S. Habgood The Concept of Nature
2003–2004 John Haldane Mind, Soul and Deity
2003 Eleonore Stump Wandering in the Darkness
2007 Stephen Pattison Seeing Things: Deepening Relations with Visual Artefacts, ISBN 978-0-334-04149-8
2009 Alister McGrath A Fine-Tuned Universe: The Quest for God in Science and Theology, ISBN 978-0-664-23310-5
2012 Sarah Coakley Sacrifice Regained: Evolution, Cooperation and God

Edinburgh

1891 George Gabriel Stokes Natural Theology
1900–1002 William James The Varieties of Religious Experience, ISBN 0-679-64011-8 (several editions in print)
1909–1910 William Warde Fowler The Religious Experience of the Roman People, ISBN 0-8154-0372-0
1911–1912 Bernard Bosanquet The Principle of Individuality and Value, ISBN 0-527-10036-6
1913–1914 Henri Bergson The Problem of Personality
1915–1916 William Mitchell Ramsay Asianic Elements in Greek Civilization, ISBN 0-89005-173-9
1919–1921 George Stout Mind and Matter pub. 1931
1921–1923 Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison Studies in the Philosophy of Religion, ISBN 0-404-60474-9
1923–1925 James George Frazer The Worship of Nature ISBN 1-56459-532-3
1926–1927 Arthur Eddington The Nature of the Physical World, ISBN 0-472-06015-5
1927–1928 Alfred North Whitehead Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology, ISBN 0-02-934570-7
1928–1929 John Dewey The Quest for Certainty: A Study of the Relation of Knowledge and Action, ISBN 1-4179-0845-9
1934–1935 Albert Schweitzer The Problem of Natural Theology and Natural Ethics (unpublished)
1937–1938 Charles Sherrington Man on His Nature, ISBN 0-521-06436-8
1938–1940 Reinhold Niebuhr The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation , (2 vol set): ISBN 0-664-25709-7
1947–1949 Christopher Dawson part 1:Religion and Culture ISBN 0-404-60498-6 part 2: Religion and the Rise of Western Culture ISBN 0-385-42110-9
1949–1950 Niels Bohr Causality and Complementarity: Epistemological Lessons of Studies in Atomic Physics, ISBN 1-881987-14-0
1952–1953 Arnold J. Toynbee An Historian's Approach to Religion, ISBN 0-19-215260-2
1954–1955 Rudolf Bultmann History and Eschatology: The Presence of Eternity, ISBN 0-8371-8123-2
1973–1974 Owen Chadwick The Secularisation of the European Mind in the 19th Century, ISBN 0-521-39829-0
1974–1976 Stanley Jaki The Road of Science and the Ways to God, ISBN 0-226-39145-0
1978–1979 Sir John Eccles The Human Mystery, The Human Psyche, ISBN 0-387-09954-9
1979-1980 Ninian Smart "The Varieties of Religious Identity", published as Beyond Ideology: Religion and the Future of Western Civilisation, ISBN 0-06-067402-4
1980–1981 Hossein Nasr Knowledge and the Sacred, ISBN 0-7914-0177-4
1981–1982 Iris Murdoch Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals, ISBN 0-14-017232-7
1984–1985 Jürgen Moltmann God in Creation: A New Theology of Creation and the Spirit of God, ISBN 0-8006-2823-3
1985-1986 Paul Ricoeur "Oneself as another", ISBN 0-226-71329-6
1986–1987 John Hick An Interpretation of Religion, (2nd ed.): ISBN 0-300-10668-8
1987–1988 Alasdair MacIntyre Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: ISBN 0-7156-2337-0
1988–1989 Raimon Panikkar Trinity and Theism: ISBN 978-1-57075-855-3
1989–1990 Mary Douglas Claims on God: published (much revised) as In the Wilderness: ISBN 1-85075-444-6
1993–1994 John Polkinghorne Science and Christian Belief: Theological Reflections of a Bottom-up Thinker, ISBN 0-281-04714-6
1995–1996 Gerald Cohen If you're an Egalitarian, how come you're so Rich?, published by Harvard University Press under the same title: ISBN 0-674-00693-3
1996–1997 Richard Sorabji Emotions and How to Cope with Them, published as Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, ISBN 0-19-825005-3
1997–1998 Holmes Rolston III Genes, Genesis and God, ISBN 0-521-64674-X
1998–1999 Charles Taylor, Living in a Secular Age, published as A Secular Age: ISBN 0-674-02676-4
1999–2000 David Tracy This side of God
2000–2001 Onora O'Neill Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics
2001–2002 Mohammed Arkoun Inaugurating a Critique of Islamic Reason
2002–2003 Michael Ignatieff The Lesser Evil - Political Ethics in an Age of Terror, ISBN 0-691-11751-9
2003–2004 J. Wentzel van Huyssteen Alone in the World? Human Uniqueness in Science and Theology, ISBN 0-8028-3246-6
2004–2005 Dame Margaret Anstee Stephen Toulmin, and Noam Chomsky, delivering a series of lectures dedicated to Edward Said who was scheduled to give the 2004–05 series before his death in 2003.
2005–2006 Jean Bethke Elshtain Sovereign God, Sovereign State, Sovereign Self
2006–2007 Simon Conway Morris Darwin 's Compass: How Evolution Discovers the Song of Creation and Jonathan Riley-Smith The Crusades and Christianity
2007–2008 Alexander Nehamas "Because it was he, because it was I": Friendship and Its Place in Life
2008 Robert M. Veatch, Hipprocratic, Religious and Secular Medical Ethics: The Point of Conflict
2008–2009 Diana Eck The Age of Pluralism [April–May 2009]
2009–2010 Michael Gazzaniga Mental Life [October 2009]
2009–2010 Terry Eagleton The God Debate [March 2010]
2010–2011 Peter Harrison Science, Religion and the Modern World [scheduled for February 2011], Gordon Brown The Future of Jobs and Justice
2011–2012 Diarmaid MacCulloch Holme's Dog: Silence in the History of the Church (announced)

Glasgow

1888–1892 Friedrich Max Müller 1888: Natural Religion vol. 1 & 2; 1890: Physical Religion; 1891: Anthropological Religion: 1892: Theosophy or Psychological Religion
1892–1896 John Caird The Fundamental Ideas of Christianity Vol.1&2
1896–1898 Alexander Balmain Bruce The Moral Order of the World, The Providential Order of the World
1910-1912 John Watson The Interpretation of Religious Experience
1914 Arthur Balfour Theism and Humanism ISBN 1-58742-005-8
1916–1918 Samuel Alexander Space, Time, and Deity, volume one: ISBN 0-7661-8701-2, volume two: ISBN 0-7661-8702-0
1922 Arthur Balfour Theism and Thought
1927–1928 J. B. S. Haldane The Sciences and Philosophy, ISBN 0-404-60479-X
1932–1934 William Temple Nature, Man and God
1952–1954 John Macmurray The Form of the Personal vol 1: The Self as Agent ISBN 1-57392-337-0 vol 2: Persons in Relation ISBN 1-57392-625-6
1959 Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker The Relevance of Science
1970 Richard William Southern The Rise and Fall of the Medieval System of Religious Thought
1974-1976 Basil Mitchell Morality, Religious and Secular
1985 Carl Sagan The Search for Who We Are, published in 2006 as The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God, ISBN 1-59420-107-2
1988 Don Cupitt Nature and Culture
1988 Richard Dawkins Worlds in Microcosm
1992 Mary Warnock Imagination and Understanding, published as Imagination and Time, ISBN 0-631-19019-8
1993–1994 Keith Ward Religion and Revelation ISBN 0-19-826375-9 (ISBN 13: 978-0-19-826375-3)
1995–1996 Geoffrey Cantor and John Hedley Brooke Reconstructing Nature
1997–1998 R J (Sam) Berry Gods, Genes, Greens and Everything
1999–2000 Ralph McInerny Characters in Search of Their Author
2001 Lynne Baker The Nature and Limits of Human Understanding
2003–2004 Simon Blackburn Reason's Empire
2007–2008 David Fergusson Religion and Its Recent Critics published as Faith and Its Critics: A Conversation, ISBN 978-0-19-956938-0
2008–2009 Charles Taylor The Necessity of Secularist Regimes [May 2009]
2009–2010 Gianni Vattimo The End of Reality
2012 Vilayanur Ramachandran Body and Mind: Insights from Neuroscience

St Andrews

1902–1904 Richard Haldane The Pathway to Reality, ISBN 0-404-60459-5
1917–1918 William Ralph Inge The Philosophy of Plotinus, ISBN 1-59244-284-6
1919–1920 Lewis Richard Farnell Greek Hero Cults and Ideas of Immortality
1921–1922 C. Lloyd Morgan Emergent Evolution (1923) ISBN 0-404-60468-4, and Life, Mind, and Spirit (1925)
1936–1937 Werner Jaeger The Theology of the Early Greek Philosophers (1936)
1955–1956 Werner Heisenberg Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science, ISBN 1-57392-694-9
1962–1964 Henry Chadwick Authority in the Early Church
1964–1966 John Findlay The Discipline of the Cave (1966), and The Transcendence of the Cave (1967) ISBN 978-0-04-111002-9
1967–1969 Robert Charles Zaehner Concordant Discord. The Interdependence of Faiths. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1970.
1972–1973 Alfred Ayer The Central Questions of Philosophy, ISBN 0-03-013116-2
1975–1977 Reijer Hooykaas Fact, Faith and Fiction in the Development of Science
1977–1978 David Stafford-Clark Myth, Magic and Denial
1980–1981 Gregory Vlastos Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher
1982–1983 Donald Geoffrey Charlton New Images of the Natural, 1750-1800
1983–1984 John Macquarrie In Search of Deity
1984–1985 Adolf Grunbaum Psychoanalytic Theory and Science
1986–1987 Antony Flew The Logic of Mortality
1988–1989 Walter Burkert Tracks of Biology and the Creation of Sense
1990–1991 Hilary Putnam Renewing Philosophy
1992–1993 Arthur Peacocke Nature, God and Humanity:
1992–1993 Roger Penrose The Question of Physical Reality
1995 Nicholas Wolterstorff Thomas Reid and the Story of Epistemology
1996–1997 Michael Dummett Thought and Reality
1999 Robert Merrihew Adams God and Being
1999 Marilyn McCord Adams The Coherence of Christology
2001–2002 Stanley Hauerwas With the Grain of the Universe: The Church's Witness and Natural Theology, ISBN 1-58743-016-9
2002–2003 Peter van Inwagen The Problem of Evil, ISBN 978-0-19-954397-7
2004–2005 Alvin Plantinga Science and Religion: Conflict or Concord
2007 Martin Rees 21st Century Science: Cosmic Perspective and Terrestrial Challenges

Bibliografia

Stanley Jaki, Lord Gifford and His Lectures: A Centenary Retrospect (1987). Scottish Academic Press, ISBN 0-7073-0465-2.
Larry Witham, The Measure of God: Our Century-Long Struggle to Reconcile Science & Religion (2005), HarperSanFrancisco hardcover: ISBN 0-06-059191-9; reprinted as The Measure of God: History's Greatest Minds Wrestle with Reconciling Science and Religion (2006), paperback: ISBN 0-06-085833-8.