News & Announcements

October 5, 2015

2015 Gifford Lecture Series: University of St. Andrews

Thursday, October 1, 2015 - 17:30 to Friday, October 9, 2015 - 17:30
Parliament Hall

Exemplarist virtue theory is a comprehensive ethical theory in which all central terms in moral discourse (“virtue,” “good life,” “wrong act,” etc) are defined by direct reference to exemplars of goodness, picked out through the emotion of admiration.

September 11, 2015

2015 Gifford Lecture Series: University of Glasgow

Tuesday, October 13, 2015 - 02:00 to Wednesday, October 21, 2015 - 02:00
Sir Charles Wilson Lecture Theatre

Perry Schmidt-Leukel – Interreligious Theology: The Future Shape of Theology

There are five lectures in the series, spread over five nights.

  1. Tuesday 13 October: Interreligious Theology: Whither and Why?
  2. Wednesday 14 October: The Prophet and the Son.
  3. Thursday 15 October: The Son and the Buddha. (NB: changed from Monday 19th!)
  4. Tuesday 20 October: The Buddha and the Prophet.
  5. Wednesday 21 October: Towards a Fractal Theory of Religious Diversity.

Each night:

September 30, 2014

Silence: A Christian History

The product of his 2006 Gifford Lectures, Diarmaid MacCulloch’s Silence takes a cross-section of Christian history, examining the theme of “silence” as a moral and spiritual act. Silence here stands in a dialectical relationship with “speech”, and acquires a wide range of different meanings and applications.

Silence: A Christian History
March 27, 2014

2014 Gifford Lecture Series: University of Edinburgh

Monday, May 19, 2014 -
17:30 to 18:30
St Cecilia’s Hall, Niddry Street, Cowgate, Edinburgh EH1 1NQ

Justice Catherine O’Regan will deliver her Gifford Lecture, "'What is Caesar’s'? Adjudicating faith in modern constitutional democracies".

March 26, 2014

2014 Gifford Lecture Series: University of Glasgow

Tuesday, May 20, 2014 - 17:30 to Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - 19:30
Graham Kerr Lecture Theatre, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ

The 2014 Gifford Lecture Series at the University of Glasgow is entitled Givenness and Revelation. It will be delivered in May by Jean-Luc Marion.

October 11, 2012

2012 Gifford Lecture Series: University of St. Andrews

Monday, December 3, 2012 - 17:15 to Friday, December 7, 2012 - 18:15
School III of St Salvator’s Quad, North Street, St Andrews

Dr. Denis Alexander (University of Cambridge) will present The Gifford Lecture Series at St. Andrews beginning December 3, 2012. The lecture series will be delivered in School III of St Salvator’s Quad, North Street, St Andrews. Each lecture will begin at 5.15pm, and following the first there will be a reception in Lower College Hall. Lectures are free and open to the public as well as to staff and students of the University.

April 9, 2012

2012 Gifford Lecture Series: University of Glasgow

Sunday, May 27, 2012 - 14:30 to Wednesday, May 30, 2012 - 19:00
University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ

The University of Glasgow is pleased to announce that registration for the 2012 Gifford Lecture Series is now open.

Lecture Dates

Art , metaphor and synesthesia (afternoon workshop) 
Sunday 27th May, 2.30pm - 4.30pm
Sir Charles Wilson, Lecture Theatre

Illusions , delusions and the brain
Monday 28th May 6pm (doors open 5:30pm)
Bute Hall, Main Building

Molecules , neurons and morality
Wednesday 30th May 6pm (doors open 5:30pm)
Bute Hall, Main Building

November 2, 2011

YouTube Channel

Gifford Lectures now has a YouTube Channel! Visit http://www.youtube.com/user/GiffordLectures?feature=mhee to watch videos of recorded lectures.

September 7, 2010

Divine Personality and Human Life: Being the Gifford Lectures in the Years 1918 and 1919

In Divine Personality and Human Life, volume 2 of Webb’s Gifford Lectures, the author examines ideas of personality and persons and their relation to broadly theistic conceptions of God. The volume explores the notion of personality in ‘man’ in light of the conclusions drawn in the first volume, and how the ‘divine personality’ figures in spheres of human activity such as the economic, scientific, aesthetic, moral, political and religious lives.

Divine Personality and Human Life: Being the Gifford Lectures in the Years 1918 and 1919
April 9, 2010

New St. Andrews Gifford Lectures Page

St Andrews now has a Gifford Lectures page, which presently has a detailed description of Roger Scruton’s upcoming Lecture series.

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