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26-705: The Hibbert Lectures are an annual series of non-sectarian lectures on theological issues. They are sponsored by the Hibbert Trust , which was founded in 1847 by the Unitarian Robert Hibbert with a goal to uphold "the unfettered exercise of private judgement in matters of religion.". In recent years the lectures have been broadcast by the BBC . Lecturers (incomplete list) [ edit ] 1878-1894 (First Series) [ edit ] 1878 Max Müller On

52-634: A Discipline of Salvation 1916 Philip H. Wicksteed The reactions between dogma & philosophy illustrated from the works of S. Thomas Aquinas 1919 Joseph Estlin Carpenter Theism in Medieval India 1920 William Ralph Inge "The State, Visible and Invisible" 1921 James Moffatt The Approach to the New Testament 1922 Lawrence Pearsall Jacks Religious Perplexities 1923 Felix Adler The Reconstruction of

78-623: A World Faith 1937 Gilbert Murray Liberality and Civilisation 1950-1999 [ edit ] 1959 Basil Willey Darwin And Butler: Two Versions of Evolution 1963 James Luther Adams 1964 Geoffrey Nuttall , Roger Thomas , Roy Drummond Whitehorn , Harry Lismer Short , The Beginnings of Nonconformity 1965 Frederick Hadaway Hilliard Christianity in education 1977 Jonathon Porritt , Bringing Religion Down to Earth 1979 Rustum Roy Experimenting with Truth 1989 Bede Griffiths , Christianity in

104-465: A first cousin to Philip, was the maverick MP and mining engineer Arnold Lupton . Jane was described as impractical but accomplished (sketching, painting, reciting poetry etc.) and both the Wicksteed siblings as "Unitarians of vigorous mind and keen intelligence". Philip was one of nine children, including Janet, who wrote, as Mrs Lewis, a memoir including her parents; (Joseph) Hartley , president of

130-692: A freethinker that when he was invited the Hibbert Lectures at Oxford, the authorities of Balliol College refused the use of a room for the purpose [1] Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hibbert_Lectures&oldid=1156470035 " Categories : British lecture series Religious education in the United Kingdom Unitarianism in the United Kingdom Recurring events established in 1878 1878 establishments in

156-539: A lecturer on economics for the University of London extension lectures (a kind of adult education program initiated in the 1870s to extend "the teaching of the universities, to serve up some of the crumbs from the university tables, in a portable and nutritious form, for some of the multitude who had no chance of sitting there"). In 1894, Wicksteed published his celebrated An Essay on the Co-ordination of

182-495: The Institute of Mechanical Engineers ; and Charles , also an engineer. One of his nieces was Mary Cicely Wicksteed, who married the prominent Australian surgeon Sir Hibbert Alan Stephen Newton (1887–1949) Wicksteed was educated at University College London and Manchester New College , the seminary for nonconformist ministers. In 1867 he received his master's degree with a gold medal in classics . Following his father into

208-571: The Unitarian ministry that year, Wicksteed embarked on an extraordinarily broad range of scholarly and theological explorations. His theological and ethical writings continued long after he left the pulpit (in 1897), and appear to have been a starting point for many of his other fields of scholarly inquiry. These included his interest in Dante , which not only produced a remarkable list of publications, but also built Wicksteed's reputation as one of

234-944: The Ancient Hebrews 1893 Charles Barnes Upton Lectures on the bases of religious belief 1894 James Drummond Via, Veritas, Vita; Christianity in its most simple and intelligible form 1900-1949 [ edit ] 1906 Franz Cumont (on Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism) 1908 William James A Pluralistic Universe 1911 Lewis Richard Farnell The Higher Aspects of Greek Religion 1912 James Hope Moulton Early Zoroastrianism 1913 Josiah Royce The Problem of Christianity , online edition (volume one) 1913 David Samuel Margoliouth The Early Development of Mohammedanism 1914 Herbert A. Giles Confucianism and Its Rivals 1916 Louis de La Vallée-Poussin The Way to Nirvána: Ancient Buddhism as

260-600: The Laws of Distribution , in which he sought to prove mathematically that a distributive system which rewarded factory owners according to marginal productivity would exhaust the total product produced. But it was his 1910 The Common Sense of Political Economy which most comprehensively presents Wicksteed's economic system . The 1932 work by Lionel Robbins , An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science , picked up and developed his ideas. Wicksteed married Emily,

286-606: The Light of the East 2000- [ edit ] 2003 James L. Cox Religion without God: Methodological Agnosticism and the Future of Religious Studies 2005 Karen Armstrong and Khalid Hameed Spirituality and global citizenship Notes [ edit ] ^ Wood, James , ed. (1907). "Hibbert Lectures"  . The Nuttall Encyclopædia . London and New York: Frederick Warne. ^ ...so well known as

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312-768: The Religion of the Ancient Babylonians 1888 Edwin Hatch Influence of Greek Ideas and Usages Upon the Christian Church 1891 Eugene, Count Goblet D'Alviella Lectures on the Origin and Growth of the Concept of God, as Illustrated by Anthropology and History ISBN   978-0-7661-0207-1 1892 Claude Montefiore The Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Religion of

338-775: The Religions of India (inaugural) 1879 Peter le Page Renouf The Religion of the Egyptians 1880 Ernest Renan Lectures on the Influence of the Institutions, Thought And Culture of Rome on Christianity And the Development of the Catholic Church 1881 T. W. Rhys Davids Indian Buddhism 1882 Abraham Kuenen National Religions and Universal Religion 1883 Charles Beard The Reformation of

364-562: The Sixteenth Century in its Relation to Modern Thought and Knowledge 1884 Albert Reville The Native Religions of Mexico and Peru 1885 Otto Pfleiderer The Influence of the Apostle Paul on the Development of Christianity 1886 John Rhys Lectures on the origin and growth of religion as illustrated by Celtic heathendom 1887 Archibald Sayce Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as illustrated by

390-685: The Spiritual Ideal 1924 Lawrence Pearsall Jacks Human consciousness towards God 1925 Francis Greenwood Peabody 1929 Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan An Idealist View of Life 1930 Rabindranath Tagore The Religion of Man 1931 George Dawes Hicks The Philosophical Bases of Theism 1932 Robert Seymour Conway Ancient Italy and Modern Religion 1933 Lawrence Pearsall Jacks The Revolt Against Mechanism 1934 Albert Schweitzer Religion in Modern Civilization 1936 William Ernest Hocking Living Religions and

416-573: The United Kingdom Hidden category: Misplaced Pages articles incorporating a citation from the Nuttall Encyclopedia Hibbert Trust On 19 July 1847, Hibbert executed a deed conveying to trustees $ 50,000 in 6% Ohio stock, and £8,000 in railway shares. The trustees, on the death of his widow, were to apply the income 'in such manner as they shall from time to time deem most conducive to

442-553: The West Indies , seeking advice on a way forward. Robert Mortimer Montgomery , who became a member of the Hibbert Trust in 1914, served as its Chairman from 1929 until three weeks before his death, in 1948. This article about a philanthropic or charitable organization is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Philip H. Wicksteed Philip Henry Wicksteed (25 October 1844 – 18 March 1927)

468-570: The city's central square , and two years later the couple married. In 1841 his sister Elizabeth married Jane's brother Arthur (1819–1867), also a Unitarian minister; Uncle Arthur was, according to a family history, "The Achilles of the Leeds Complete Suffrage Association", in other words, a tragic champion of the fight for universal suffrage ; see Chartism and Henry Vincent for more on the CSA. One of their children,

494-520: The couple were childless and their legacy created the Hibbert Trust. "On the 100th anniversary of Robert Hibbert’s death [i.e. 1949], it was acknowledged in the Hibbert Journal that good things are often “gathered from soil dunged deep with human suffering”, " according to the current chair of trustees. In the 2020s, the trustees approached the Centre for Reparation Research at the University of

520-417: The foremost medievalists of his time. Inspired by his reading of Henry George 's 1879 book Progress and Poverty , Wicksteed's theologically driven interest in the ethics of modern society, appear to have led him into his economic studies. Perhaps it was just by circumstance that economics entered Wicksteed's field of scholarly vision, as only one of a number of areas of his interest (to most of which he

546-616: The position and the public influence of the unitarian ministry'. It has always been known that the trust was founded with a fortune made from slavery; Robert Hibbert owned plantations in Jamaica , worked by enslaved African people. When the British governement abolished chattel slavery throughout most of the Empire in 1833, it awarded compensation money to the slave owners . This money passed from Robert Hibbert to his widow, who died in 1853;

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572-405: The spread of Christianity in its most simple and intelligible form, and to the unfettered exercise of the right of private judgment in matters of religion'. The trustees were always to be laymen. Appended was a scheme for the administration of the trust, which the trustees were empowered to revise, and were directed to revise at least once in every twenty-five years. In the original scheme the trust

598-646: Was a clergyman within the same tradition of English Dissent . His mother was born into the Lupton family , a socially progressive, politically active dynasty of businessmen and traders, long established in Leeds , a city both prosperous and squalid with the rapid growth of the Industrial Revolution . In 1835 Wicksteed had taken up the ministry of the Unitarian place of worship, Mill Hill Chapel , right on

624-465: Was an English scholar and Unitarian theologian known for his contributions to classics, medieval studies and economics. He was also a Georgist and literary critic . Philip Henry Wicksteed was the son of Charles Wicksteed (1810–1885) and his wife Jane (1814–1902), and was named after his distant ancestor, Philip Henry (1631–1696), the Nonconformist clergyman and diarist. His father

650-551: Was called 'the Anti-trinitarian Fund ', and its object was, by a provision of divinity scholarships , to encourage learning and culture among unorthodox Christians. The breadth of the actual trust is largely due to the counsels of Hibbert's solicitor, Edwin Wilkins Field , but, in opposition to Field, Hibbert 'determined on insisting that all recipients should be hetero-dox ', his intention being 'to elevate

676-409: Was committed for years before he began his economics) and in the middle of the fourth decade of his life. This led Joseph Schumpeter to remark that Wicksteed "stood somewhat outside of the economics profession". Yet, within a few years Wicksteed was to publish significant economic work of his own, carefully expounding on the theory he learned from William Stanley Jevons , and to become for many years

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