• The Gifford Lectures (/ˈɡɪfərd/) are an annual series of lectures which were established in 1887 by the will of Adam Gifford, Lord Gifford at the four...
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    original title of the lectures was 'Psychological Religion' but Müller felt compelled to add 'Theosophy' to it. Müller's final Gifford Lecture is significant...
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    Terry Lectures and the University of Edinburgh's 2010 Gifford Lecture entitled The God Debate. He gave the 2010 Richard Price Memorial Lecture at Newington...
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  • The Varieties of Religious Experience (category Gifford Lectures books)
    edited Gifford Lectures on natural theology, which were delivered at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland between 1901 and 1902. The lectures concerned...
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    founder of the Gifford Lectures. Gifford was born in Edinburgh on 29 February 1820 to Katherine Ann (née West) (1786–1873) and James Gifford (1780–1862)...
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  • The Life of the Mind (category Gifford Lectures books)
    major exploration of the Mind. An invitation to deliver the 1973–1974 Gifford Lectures in Aberdeen (the first woman to do so), provided an incentive to gather...
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  • A Secular Age (category Gifford Lectures books)
    2007 by Harvard University Press on the basis of Taylor's earlier Gifford Lectures (Edinburgh 1998–99). The noted sociologist Robert Bellah has referred...
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  • The Mystery of Being (category Gifford Lectures books)
    and Reality". First published in 1951, the book is a collection of Gifford Lectures given by Marcel while at the University of Aberdeen between 1949 and...
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  • Gifford or Giffords may refer to: Gifford (given name) Gifford (surname) Gabby Giffords (b. 1970), a former United States politician Gifford Peninsula...
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    August 2009 The Salisbury Review The Gifford Lectures 2011–2012. University of St Andrews The Stanton Lectures 2011–2012. University of Cambridge The...
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  • The Nature and Destiny of Man (category Gifford Lectures books)
    theologian Reinhold Niebuhr. The book is partly based on his 1939 Gifford Lectures. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked it the 18th-greatest non-fiction...
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  • Another comparable lecture series is the Gifford Lectures, which are delivered annually at several universities in Scotland. The first lecture series was offered...
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    of Christian Philosophers from 1983 to 1986. He has delivered the Gifford Lectures twice and was described by Time magazine as "America's leading orthodox...
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    centres around the delivery of Whitehead's Gifford lectures in 1927–28 – following Arthur Eddington's lectures of the year previous – which Whitehead would...
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    the 1907–1908 Gifford Lectures at the University of Glasgow, entitled "Ideals of Religion." He also delivered the 1909 Adamson Lecture of the Victoria...
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    Process and Reality (category Gifford Lectures books)
    process philosophy. The book, published in 1929, is a revision of the Gifford Lectures he gave in 1927–28. We diverge from Descartes by holding that what...
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    Schmidt-Leukel (2017). Religious Pluralism and Interreligious Theology: The Gifford Lectures. Orbis. pp. 220–222. ISBN 978-1-60833-695-1. [a] Björn Dahla (2006)...
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    was also the first American theologian to deliver the prestigious Gifford Lectures at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland in over forty years. His...
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    Prize, awarded by Prince Philip in Buckingham Palace. He gave the Gifford Lectures, University of Edinburgh, 1997–1998. He also serves on the Advisory...
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  • William Ritchie Sorley at the Internet Archive William Ritchie Sorley some biographical notes and Lectures available from the Gifford Lectures website...
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    Neuroscience Society, and the American Humanist Association. He delivered the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh in 2013. He has served on the editorial...
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    Lewis Richard Farnell, Greek Hero Cults and Ideas of Immortality: the Gifford Lectures, "The Cults of Epic Heroes: Peleus" 1921:310f. Farnell 1921:310f; Farnell...
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  • October 2002 The Gifford Lectures, eight lectures delivered at the University of St. Andrews, May 2003 The Jellema Lectures: two lectures delivered at Calvin...
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    Balliol College, Oxford. From 1894 to 1896 at St Andrews, he gave the Gifford Lectures, which were published in 1898. An Anglican vicar, in October 1893 Campbell...
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  • The Varieties of Scientific Experience (category Gifford Lectures books)
    Sagan delivered in 1985 at the University of Glasgow as part of the Gifford Lectures. The book was first published posthumously in 2006, 10 years after...
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    he delivered the Gifford Lectures at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, which were published as Religion and the One. These lectures attempted to "express...
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    1964-65, Rockefeller Lectures (University of Chicago) in 1966, Kevorkian Lectures (New York University) in 1977, Gifford Lectures (University of Edinburgh)...
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  • Exemplarist Moral Theory (category Gifford Lectures books)
    moral philosophy by Linda Zagzebski, published in 2017 based on her Gifford Lectures. Birondo, Noell (October 27, 2017). "Exemplarist Moral Theory". Notre...
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  • Infinite in All Directions (category Gifford Lectures books)
    theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson. The book is based on the author's Gifford Lectures delivered in Aberdeen in 1985. Infinite in All Directions can roughly...
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    Bioethics (The 2001 Gifford Lectures). Cambridge University Press. O'Neill, Onora (2002). A Question of Trust: The BBC Reith Lectures. Cambridge University...
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