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The James W. Richard Lecturers
1931-1999

Year	Speaker and Title of the Lectures
1931	William F. Albright. The Archaeology of Palestine and the Bible.
1932	None
1933	James Moffatt. The Thrill of Tradition.
1934	None
1935	William Ernest Hocking. The Idea of God and the Unity of the World.
1936	None
1937	Etienne Gilson. Reason and Revelation in the Middle Ages.
1938	None
1939	None
1940	Edgar J. Goodspeed. Christianity Goes to Press.
1941	Robert L. Calhoun. The Law of God and the Will of Man.
1942	None
1943	William Clayton Bower. Church and State in Education.
1944	Henry Steele Commager. Majority Rule and Minority Rights.
1945	John C. Bennett. Christian Ethics and Social Policy.
1946	None
1947	Ernest Cadman Colwell. What is the Best New Testament?
1948	Lewis U. Hanke. Bartolome de las Casas, Pensador Politico, Historiador, Antropologo
1949	Harold A. Bosley. A Firm Faith for Today.
1950	M.L.W. Laistner. Christianity and Pagan Culture in the Later Roman Empire.
1951	Paul Tillich. Biblical Religion and the Search for Ultimate Reality.
1952	Crane Brinton. The Temper of Western Europe.
1953	Albert T. Mollegen. The Christian Vocabulary.
1954	C. Vann Woodward. The Strange Career of Jim Crow.
1955	Albert J. Outler. The Christian Tradition and the Unity We Seek.
1956	None
1957	Lynn White, Jr. Medieval Technology and Social Change.
1958	William H. Brownlee. The Meaning of the Qumran Scrolls for the Bible.
1959	Dexter Perkins. America’s Quest for Peace.
1960	Cyril E. Black. The Dynamics of Modernization.
1961	Carl Michaleon. The Rationality of Faith.
1962	Charles Ralph Boxer. Race Relations in the Portuguese Empire 1415-1825.
1963	John Knox. Myth and Truth.
1964	Bernard S. Cohn. The Making of Traditional India.
1965	Robert M. Grant. The Early Christian Doctrine of God.
1966	Benjamin I. Schwarz. Continuity and Change in Contemporary China.
1967	John Macquarrie. Christianity and Ethics Old and New.
1968	R.S. Lopez. The Three Ages of the Italian Renaissance.
1968	John S. Hick. The Theology of Death.
1969	Frank Craven. The 17th Century Virginian.
1970	Paul Ricoeur. Word and Scripture.
1971-72	None
1973	David S. Landes. (Title not available.)
1974	Wilfred Cantwell Smith. (Title not available.)
1975	Edmund S. Morgan. (NA)
1976-95	(Information not available.)
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.
1997	Wendy Doniger. The Horse in Mythology.
1997	Lisa Anderson. Between Tyranny and Anarchy: The Prospects for Democracy in the Arab World.
1998	Lyndal Roper. Sorcery and the Self in Early Modern Europe.
1999	Richard J. Smith. Ordering the World and Fathoming the Cosmos: The I-Ching (Book of Changes) in China and Beyond.
2002	David Shulman Emptiness, Poetry, and the Making of God in South India.
2003	Lynn Hunt:  The Eighteenth-Century Origins of Humand Rights: Bodies, Selves, and Revolution
2003	Quentin Skinner:  Thomas Hobbes: Freedom, Representation and the State
2005	Stephen Mulhall: The Conversation of Humanity

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For more information, please contact M. Jamie Ferreira, Page-Barbour and Richard Lectures Committee Chair or Aaron Wall, Assistant to the Page-Barbour and Richard Lecture Committee.

 

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