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James W. Richard Lectures History

2023: Margaret Mitchell The Bible is a Problem

2018: Peter Hawkins First Person Singular: Voicing the Christian ‘I’

2017: Francis X. Clooney From Hindu to Christian Theology: Instruction, Truth, Experience

2016: Sarah Coakley Sacrifice: Defunct or Desired? A New Religious and Theological Analysis

2016: Frank Burch Brown The Aesthetics of Forgiveness: Imagining Forgiveness Artistically

2015: Jerry White Strategic Peacebuilding: Addressing Abrahamic Atrocities in the Middle East and Europe

2013: Robert Buswell Bringing the Dharma Home: Constructing Buddhism on the Korean Penninsula

2012: Peter Brown Treasure in Heaven: Wealth, Labor and the “Poor Among the Saints”

2011: Sara Seager Exoplanets and the Search for Habitable Worlds

2010: John Yves-Lacoste From Theology to Theological Thinking

2008: Martin Jay The Virtues of Mendacity

2008: Jean-Luc Marion The Reason of the Gift

2006: Janet Soskice Naming God

2002: David Shulman Emptiness, Poetry, and the Making of God in South India

1999: Richard J. Smith Ordering the World and Fathoming the Cosmos: The I-Ching (Book of Changes) in China and Beyond

1998: Lyndal Roper Sorcery and the Self in Early Modern Europe

1997: Wendy Doniger The Horse in Mythology

1997: Lisa Anderson Between Tyranny and Anarchy: The Prospects for Democracy in the Arab World

1996: Jacques Revel History and the Social Sciences: The French Experience, 1896-1990

1996: Philip D. Curtin Frontiers and Metropolises of the South Atlantic: Southern Africa and Argentina in the Early 19th Century

1996: Harvie Ferguson Modernity and Subjectivity: Body, Soul, Spirit

1989: William H. McNeill Population and Politics Since 1750

1981: Jacob Neusner Ancient Israel After Catastrophe: The Religious Worldview of the Mishnah

1978: Thomas F. Torrence The Ground and Grammar of Theology

1975: Edmund S. Morgan The Meaning of Independence: John Adams, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson

1974: Wilfred Cantwell Smith Belief and History

1973: David S. Landes

1970: Paul Ricoeur Word and Scripture

1969: Frank Craven The 17th Century Virginian

1968: R.S. Lopez The Three Ages of the Italian Renaissance

1968: John S. Hick The Theology of Death

1967: John Macquarrie Christianity and Ethics Old and New

1966: Benjamin I. Schwarz Continuity and Change in Contemporary China

1965: Robert M. Grant The Early Christian Doctrine of God

1964: Bernard S. Cohn The Making of Traditional India

1963: John Knox Myth and Truth

1962: Charles Ralph Boxer Race Relations in the Portuguese Empire 1415-1825

1961: Carl Michaleon The Rationality of Faith

1960: Cyril E. Black The Dynamics of Modernization

1959: Dexter Perkins America’s Quest for Peace

1958: William H. Brownlee The Meaning of the Qumran Scrolls for the Bible

1957: Lynn White, Jr. Medieval Technology and Social Change

1955: Albert J. Outler The Christian Tradition and the Unity We Seek

1954: C. Vann Woodward The Strange Career of Jim Crow

1953: Albert T. Mollegen The Christian Vocabulary

1952: Crane Brinton The Temper of Western Europe

1951: Paul Tillich Biblical Religion and the Search for Ultimate Reality

1950: M.L.W. Laistner Christianity and Pagan Culture in the Later Roman Empire

1949: Harold A. Bosley A Firm Faith for Today

1948: Lewis U. Hanke Bartolome de las Casas, Pensador Politico, Historiador, Antropologo

1947: Ernest Cadman Colwell What is the Best New Testament?

1945: John C. Bennett Christian Ethics and Social Policy

1944: Henry Steele Commager Majority Rule and Minority Rights

1943: William Clayton Bower Church and State in Education

1941: Robert L. Calhoun The Law of God and the Will of Man

1940: Edgar J. Goodspeed Christianity Goes to Press

1937: Etienne Gilson Reason and Revelation in the Middle Ages

1935: William Ernest Hocking The Idea of God and the Unity of the World

1933: James Moffatt The Thrill of Tradition

1931: William F. Albright The Archaeology of Palestine and the Bible