News & Announcements

April 15, 2019

UPDATED: Mary Beard May 2019 Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh

Monday, May 6, 2019 - 05:30
Gordon Aikman Lecture Theatre, 32 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LH

From the University of Edinburgh:

Professor Mary Beard’s Gifford Lectures

The Ancient World and us: from fear and loathing to enlightenment and ethics

Event Details

Dates 6, 7, 9, 27, 28, 30 May, 5.30-6.30pm.

Venue

NEW LOCATION: the Gordon Aikman Lecture Theatre, 32 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LH

Please note in order to book the newly available tickets you will need to scroll down the page after clicking on "Register"

Series Summary

April 12, 2019

Professor Mark Johnston to deliver September-October

Tuesday, September 17, 2019 (All day)

From the University of St Andrews:

Gifford Lectures 2019

The Hard God: Ontotheology as an Antidote for Idolatry

Lecturer: Mark Johnston, The Henry Putnam University Professor, Princeton University.

Author of Saving God: Religion after Idolatry (2009, 2nd Ed. 2015); Surviving Death (2010, 2nd Ed. 2013); Human Beings (2019) and The Obscure Object of Hallucination (2019).

September

March 19, 2019

Mary Beard Gifford Lecture Details Announced

Monday, May 6, 2019 - 05:30
The Sypert Concert Room, St Cecilia’s Hall, 50 Niddry Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1LG

From the University of Edinburgh:

Event Details:

Dates: 6, 7, 9, 27, 28, 30 May, 5:30-6:30pm.

The lectures may be followed by questions. Latest finishing time is 7pm.

Venue: The Sypert Concert Room, St Cecilia’s Hall, 50 Niddry Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1LG

Tickets are free of charge and will be available here from 1 April 2019.

January 14, 2019

Professor David N. Hempton to Deliver 2020–21 Gifford Lectures

The University of Edinburgh has announced that David N. Hempton will deliver a series of six Gifford Lectures in the 2020–21 academic year. Dates to be confirmed.

Professor Hempton is dean of the Faculty of Divinity, Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies, and John Lord O'Brian Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School.

Professor David N. Hempton's page on the Harvard Divinity School website.

January 4, 2019

In This World of Wonders

1995 St Andrews Gifford Lecturer Nicholas Wolterstorff recounts the details leading up to and accompanying his lectures in a soon to be published memoir (pp. 58, 260–64). 

From the publisher's website:

World-renowned Christian philosopher. Beloved professor. Author of the classic Lament for a Son. Nicholas Wolterstorff is all of these and more. His memoir, In This World of Wonders, opens a remarkable new window into the life and thought of this remarkable man. 

January 3, 2019

Professor Michael Welker to deliver October-November 2019 Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh

Monday, October 28, 2019 (All day)

Dates: 28, 29, 31 October and 4, 5, and 7 November 2019.

Information about the lectures will be updated upon availability.

December 9, 2018

Professor Mary Beard to deliver May 2019 Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh

Monday, May 6, 2019 - 05:30

Dates: 6, 7, 9, 27, 28, 30 May, 5.30-6.30pm.

The lectures may be followed by questions. Latest finishing time is 7pm.

Venue: St Cecilia’s Hall, 50 Niddry Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1LG 

Tickets are free of charge and will be available here from 1 March 2019.

Information about the series will follow.

November 27, 2018

Emory philosopher named Gifford Lecturer in Scotland for 2020-2021

Robert N. McCauley, the William Rand Kenan Jr. University Professor of Philosophy at Emory College of Arts and Sciences, has been invited to be a Gifford Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen in 2020-2021.

The prestigious lectureships were established by Adam Lord Gifford (1820–1887), a senator of the College of Justice in Scotland, for notable scholars to deliver a series of public talks on “natural theology,” broadly construed as the knowledge of God.

November 23, 2018

The Hiddenness of God

Michael Rea's Gifford Lectures now available from Oxford University Press.

From the publisher's website:

November 1, 2018

Wahrheit in Vielfalt Vom: Vom religiösen Pluralismus zur interreligiösen Theologie

Perry Schmidt-Leukel's 2015 Glasgow Gifford Lectures, "Interreligious Theology: The Future Shape of Theology," are now available (for pre-order) in German translation. A Chinese translation is also underway and will presumably come out in autumn 2019.

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