Boyle Lectures - The Lectures

The Lectures

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• 1692 - A Confutation of Atheism, by Richard Bentley
• 1693-4 - A Demonstration of the Messias, in which the Truth of the Christian Religion is proved, especially against the Jews, by Richard Kidder
• 1695 - The Possibility, Expediency and Necessity of Divine Revelation, by John Williams
• 1696 - The Perfection of the Evangelical Revelation, by John Williams
• 1697 - The Certainty of the Christian Revelation and the Necessity of believing it, established, by Francis Gastrell (Bishop of Chester)
• 1698 - The Atheistical Objections against the Being of God and His Attributes fairly considered and fully refuted, by John Harris
• 1699 - The Credibility of the Christian Revelation, from its intrinsick Evidence, by Samuel Bradford (Bishop of Rochester)
• 1700 - The Sufficiency of a Standing Revelation, by Offspring Blackall
• 1701-2 - Truth and Exellency of the Christian Religion, by George Stanhope
• 1703 - Adams
• 1704 - A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, by Samuel Clarke
• 1705 - The Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion, by Samuel Clarke
• 1706 - Arguments to Prove the Being of a God, by John Hancock
• 1707 - The Accomplishment of Scripture Prophecies, by William Whiston
• 1708 - The Wisdom of God in the Redemption of Man, as delivered in the Holy Scriptures, vindicated from the chief Objections of Modern Infidels, by John Turner
• 1709 - Religion no Matter of Shame, by Lilly Butler
• 1710 - The Divine Original and Excellence of the Christian Religion, by Josiah Woodward
• 1711-2 - Physico-Theology, or a Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God from his Works of Creation, by William Derham
• 1713-4 - On the Exercise of Private Judgment, or Free-Thinking, by Benjamin Ibbot
• 1717-8 - Natural Obligations to Believe the Principles of Religion and Divine Revelation, by John Leng
• 1719 - An Enquiry into the Cause and Origin of Evil, by John Clarke
• 1720 - On the Origin of Evil, by John Clarke
• 1721-2 - The pretended Difficulties in Natural or Revealed Religion, no Excuse for Infidelity, by Robert Gurdon
• 1724-5 - A Demonstration of True Religion, in a Chain of Consequences from certain and undeniable Principles, by Thomas Burnett
• 1730-2 - The Gradual Revelation of the Gospel from the time of Man's Apostacy, by William Berriman
• 1736-8 - The History of the Acts of the Holy Apostles, confirmed from other Authors, and considered as full Evidence for the Truth of Christianity, by Richard Biscoe
• 1739-41 - Leonard Twells
• 1747-9 - Christianity justified upon the Scripture Foundation; being a Summery View of the Controversy between Christians and Deists, by Henry Stebbing
• 1750-2 - John Jortin
• 1756-8 - Thomas Newton
• 1763 - A Discourse upon the Being of God against Atheists, by Ralph Heathcote
• 1766-8 - The Evidence of Christianity deduced from Facts and the Testimony of Senses throughout all Ages of the Church to the present time, by William Worthington
• 1769-71 - The Intent and Propriety of the Scripture Miracles considered and explained, by Henry Owen
• 1778-80 - An Argument for the Christian Religion, drawn from a Comparison of Revelation with the Natural Operations of the Mind, by James Williamson
• 1802-5 - An Historical View of the Rise and Progress of Infidelity, with a Refutation of its Principles and Reasonings, by William Van Mildert
• 1812 - William Van Mildert
• 1814 - Frederick Nolan
• 1821 - The Connection of Christianity with Human Happiness, by William Harness
• 1845-6 - The Religions of the World; and Their Relations to Christianity Considered in Eight Lectures - Frederick Denison Maurice
• 1854 - Christopher Wordsworth
• 1857 - Eight discourses on the miracles, by William Gilson Humphry
• 1861 - The Bible and its Critics: an Enquiry into the Objective Reality of Revealed Truths, by Edward Garbett
• 1862 - The Conflict between Science and Infidelity, by Edward Garbett
• 1863 - The Divine Plan of Revelation, by Edward Garbett
• 1864 - The conversion of the Roman empire, by Charles Merivale
• 1865 - The Conversion of the Northern Nations, by Charles Merivale
• 1866-7 - Christ and Christendom, by Edward Hayes Plumptre
• 1868 - The Witness of the Old Testament to Christ, by Stanley Leathes
• 1869 - The Witness of St. Paul to Christ, by Stanley Leathes
• 1870 - The Witness of St. John to Christ, by Stanley Leathes
• 1871-2 - Moral Difficulties Connected with the Bible, by James Augustus Hessey
• 1874-5 - Christianity and Morality Or the Correspondence of the Gospel with the Moral Nature of Man, by Henry Wace
• 1876 - What is Natural Theology?, by Alfred Barry
• 1877-8 - The Manifold Witness for Christ, by Alfred Barry
• 1879-80 - The Evidential Value of the Holy Eucharist, by George Frederick Maclear
• 1884 - The Scientific Obstacles to Christian Belief, by George Herbert Curteis
• 1890 - Old Truths in Modern Lights (The Present Conflict of Science and Theology), by T. G. Bonney
• 1891 - Christian Doctrines and Modern Thought, by T. G. Bonney
• 1893 - Ascent of Faith or the Grounds of Certainty in Science and Religion, by Alexander James Harrison
• 1895 - The Gospel of Experience Or the Witness of Human Life to the Truth of Revelation, by W. C. E. Newbolt
• 1903-5 - The Testimony of St. Paul to Christ Viewed in Some of its Aspects, by Richard John Knowling
• 1935-6 - God, Creation and Revelation, by Allen John MacDonald
• 1965 - The Christian Universe, by Eric Mascall
• 2004 - Darwin, Design, and the Promise of Nature, by John F. Haught
• 2005 - Darwin’s Compass: How Evolution Discovers the Song of Creation, by Simon Conway Morris
• 2006 - The Emergence of Spirit: From Complexity to Anthropology to Theology, by Philip Clayton, response by Niels Gregersen
• 2007 - 'Cosmology of Ultimate Concern', by John D Barrow, with a response by Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow
• 2008 - 'Psychologising and Neurologising about Religion: Facts, Fallacies and the Future', by Prof Malcolm Jeeves, with a response by The Revd Dr Fraser Watts
• 2009 - 'Misusing Darwin: The Materialist Conspiracy in Evolutionary Biology', by The Revd. Professor Keith Ward, with a response by The Revd Dr John Polkinghorne
• 2010 - 'The Legacy of Robert Boyle - Then and Now', by Professor John Hedley Brooke, with a response by Professor Geoffrey Cantor
• 2011 - Is the World Unfinished? On Interactions between Science and Theology in the Concepts of Nature, Time, and the Future, by Professor Jürgen Moltmann, with a response by The Revd. Professor Alan Torrance
• 2012 - 'Christ and Evolution: A drama of wisdom', by Professor Celia Deane-Drummond, with a response by Professor Fount LeRon Shults
• 2013 - Science and Religion in Dialogue, by Rev'd Professor John Polkinghorne