Themes, titles, and lecturers are given in the table below
Links to Transcripts of the lectures and the Questions and Answers session that ensued, where available, are shown in the second column.
| 1988 ‘Church and State’ |
‘Secular Power has Demonic Potential’ Revd Professor Stephen Sykes‘The English Settlement’ The Rt Hon J Enoch Powell‘A Wider Perspective’ Gen Sir Hugh Beach |
| 1990 ‘God, Science and Creation’ |
‘God and the Universe’ The Revd Dr John Polkinghorne‘God and Evolution’ The Most Revd Dr John HabgoodCanon Professor Rowan Williams |
| 1991 ‘A Spirituality for Today’ |
‘Sanctity and Solidarity’ Fr Kenneth Leech‘Fully Human, Fully Alive’ Sr Pia Buxton‘This Sunrise of Wonder’ The Very Revd Michael Mayne |
| 1992 ‘Mission and Evangelism in Contemporary Society’ |
‘Is Unity Required for Mission?’ Dr Mary Tanner‘Evangelism and the Local Church ’ The Rt Revd Gavin Reid‘Evangelisation and the Wholeness of Mission Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali |
| 1993 ‘Faith and Inter-Faith’ |
‘Judaism and Other Faiths’ Dr Dan Cohn- Sherbok‘Christology in a Multi-Faith Context’ Dr Gavin D’Costa‘Islam and Other Faiths’ Sheikh Dr M A Zaki Badawi |
| 1994 ‘the Theology and Experience of the Holy Spirit’ |
‘All Things New – Invited to God’s Future’ ‘The Spirit of Christ – The Spirit of Life’ ‘The Charismatic Variety of Life’ Professor Jürgen Moltmann |
| 1995/96 ‘The Interpretation of the Bible in the Modern World’ |
‘Old and new in Biblical Interpretation’ Professor John Barton‘The Use of the Bible in Contemporary Ethical Issues’ (Social Justice and God’s Justification) Professor Duncan Forrester‘The Bible and Christian Doctrine’ Professor David Brown |
| 1996/7 'The Futures of Christianity: hopes and expectations'. |
'Christian Worship in the Post-Modern Age' The Revd Graham Cray'Is Christianity a Post-Modern Religion?' Professor Colin Gunton'Ecological Ecclesia and the Grounding of the Future' Professor Mary Grey |
| 1997/8 ‘Is there a Universal Gospel for the Third Millennium?’ |
‘The Christian Claim – Revelation, Gospel and Universality’ ‘The Contemporary Contradiction – Pluralism, the Expanding Universe, and the Pathologies of Religion’ ‘The Ecumenical Resources of God – Human Pilgrimages, Divine Resonances, and Collaboration between Worshippers’ The Rt Revd David Jenkins |
| 1998 ‘The State We Are In and the Church’ |
Will Hutton‘Reflections on the State We Are In’ Karen ArmstrongPatrick Dixon |
| 2000 ‘From here to Eternity’ |
The Rt Revd Colin BuchananDr Stephen TravisThe Revd Graham Cray |
| 2001 |
‘The End of All our Exploring’ – paths from science towards God' ‘Science and the Future of Theology’ – some critical issues Dr Arthur Peacocke |
| 2002 ‘Christianity and the Arts’ |
‘Stories in stories: the art of parable’ Geoffrey Stevenson ‘Christianity and the visual arts’ The Revd Canon Keith Walker ‘What does music do with words?’ Jeremy Begbie |
| 2003 ‘Religion and Health’ – the role of religion in healing |
‘Faith and Depression’ Stephen Sykes ‘Spirituality and Addiction’ Christopher Cook ‘Health and Christian Values’ Robin Gill |
| 2004 ’20-20 Vision – what will the world be like in 2020?’ |
Ian Pearson ‘The Environment, for God’s Sake!’ The Rt Revd James Jones Professor David Goode Dr Robert Song |
| 2005 'All God's Children?' The contemporary challenge for the Abrahamic faiths. |
Rabbi Professor Dan Cohn-Sherbok Maleiha Malik The Rt Revd Tim Stevens |
| 2006 'Faith in Europe' |
How did we get here and where are we heading? Professor John Hull The Church and the States we are in Sir Stephen Wall The Revd Dr Juris Calitis |
| 2007 'Who are we now?' |
Professor Nicholas Boyle ‘Towards a postmodern church: values and belief’ Dr Sara Savage ‘Law and Religion in England: Tensions in Constitutional (and Christian) Values?’ The Reverend Professor Brigid Hadfield 'The Real Self and the Imaginary Self in Virtual Reality'
Dr John McDade SJ
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