Charles William Hendel, Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy and Metaphysics at Yale University, began his Glasgow University Gifford Lectures, under the broad title Politics, in the spring semester of 1962. According to the June 1962 Glasgow University Gazette, his first course of lectures concentrated on the theme ‘The Trial of a Pelagian Faith’. His second course of lectures, on the theme ‘The Limit of Human Power’, were delivered between January and March 1963. While none of the lectures were published, the individual titles of the second series are extant (see Summary below).

Charles William Hendel, Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy and Metaphysics at Yale University, began his Glasgow University Gifford Lectures, under the broad title Politics, in the spring semester of 1962. According to the June 1962 Glasgow University Gazette, his first course of lectures concentrated on the theme ‘The Trial of a Pelagian Faith’. His second course of lectures, on the theme ‘The Limit of Human Power’, were delivered between January and March 1963. While none of the lectures were published, the individual titles of the second series are extant, as follows:

I. Praeludium (16th January 1963)

II. Ancenstral Voices … Prophesying (21st January 1963)

III. Religious Experience (23rd January 1963)

IV. Experience Re-Examined (28th January 1963)

V. Through the Looking Glass (30th January 1963)

VI. Decision (6th February 1963)

VII. Pelagian Performance (13th February 1963)

VIII. Essential Relations (20th February 1963)

IX. The Uncertainty of Entity (27th February 1963)

X. The Quest for Sufficiency (6th March 1963)