Croall Lectures

Grave of John Croall of Southfield, founder of the Croall Lectures

The Croall Lectures are a lecture series in Christian theology given in Edinburgh, and founded in 1876. ^[1] The Lectures were endowed by John Croall of Southfield, who died in 1871. ^[2]

Lecturers

• 1876 John Tulloch ^[3]
• 1878–79 John Caird, ^[4] Philosophy of Religion ^[5]
• 1879–80 William Milligan, The Resurrection of Our Lord ^[6]
• 1882 Archibald Hamilton Charteris, ^[7] The New Testament Scriptures: their claims, history, and authority
• 1885 ^[8] John Cunningham, The Growth of the Church ^[9]
• 1887 Robert Flint, Agnosticism ^[10]
• 1889 Archibald Scott, ^[11] Buddhism and Christianity; a Parallel and a Contrast
• 1892 William Hastie, The Theology of the Reformed Church ^{[12] [13]}
• 1893–94 James Robertson, ^[14] Poetry and Religion of the Psalms
• 1897 Thomas Nicol, ^[15] Recent Archaeology and the Bible
• 1899 Rev Prof John Patrick (Professor of Biblical Criticism), Clement of Alexandria ^[16]
• 1901–02 Alexander Stewart, ^[17] Creeds and Churches: Studies in Symbolics
• 1903–04 William Straton Bruce, Social Aspects of Christian Morality ^[18]
• 1907–08 Andrew Wallace Williamson, The Person of Christ in the Faith of the Church
• 1911–12 George Milligan, The New Testament Documents, their origin and early history
• 1912–13 Andrew Blair Wann, The Message of Christ to India ^[19]
• 1913? James Nicoll Ogilvie
• 1914 Archibald Robert Stirling Kennedy ^[20]
• 1916 James Cooper ^[21]
• 1918–19 William Leslie Davidson, Recent Theistic Discussion ^[22]
• 1920–21 Rev Prof William Alexander Curtis ^{[23] [24]} '
• 1923 David Miller Kay, The Semitic Religions ^[25]
• 1925 H. M. B. Reid, The Holy Spirit and the Mystics
• 1926–27 Henry Johnstone Wotherspoon, Religious Values in the Sacraments ^[26]
• 1928 J. Garrow Duncan, Digging Up Biblical History. Recent Archaeology In Palestine And Its Bearing On The Old Testament
• 1930–31, Alexander Hetherwick, The Gospel and the African ^[27]
• 1933 Hugh Ross Mackintosh, Types of Modern Theology, Schleiermacher to Barth ^[28]
• 1936 Otto Piper, God in History
• 1937 George Simpson Duncan, Jesus, Son of Man: studies contributory to a modern portrait
• 1938–39 William Spence Urquhart. Humanism and Christianity ^[29]
• 1942 Leonard Hodgson, The Doctrine of the Trinity ^[30]
• 1944 John Henderson Seaforth Burleigh, The City of God; a study of St. Augustine's philosophy ^[31]
• 1948 John A. Mackay, Ephesians ^[32]
• 1948 John Mackenzie, Two Religions. A Comparative Study of Some Distinctive Ideas and Ideals in Hinduism and Christianity ^[33]
• 1949 William Dickie Niven, Reformation Principles after Four Centuries ^[34]
• 1951 George Stuart Hendry, The Gospel of the Incarnation ^[35]
• 1953 James Brown, Subject and Object in Modern Theology ^[36]
• 1954–57 George Barclay, The Ethical Vocabulary of Saint Paul ^[37]
• 1955 John Gervase Riddell, The Calling of God
• 1960 James Stevenson McEwen, The Faith of John Knox ^[38]
• 1960–61 Martin Andrew Simpson, Defender of the Faith, etcetera Elizabeth of England, her Church and Parliament, 1558–59
• 1965 David Haxton Carswell Read, Christian Ethics
• 1967, William Neil, The Apostolic Age, published as The Truth about the Early Church ^[39]
• 1970 James Barr, The Bible in the Modern World ^[40]
• 1972 Matthew Black, A Survey of Christological Thought, 1872-1972 ^[41]
• 1980 T. E. Pollard, Fullness of Humanity: Christ's Humanness and Ours ^[42]
• 1983 D. W. D. (Bill) Shaw
• 1987 David S. M. Hamilton, Through the Waters: Baptism and the Christian life ^[43]
• 1998 Frances Young
• 2005 John Barton, The Nature of Biblical Criticism ^[44]
• 2011 Bruce Lindley McCormack, Abandoned by God: The Death of Christ in Systematic, Historical and Exegetical Perspective ^{[45] [46]}
• 2013 Marilynne Robinson, Son of God, Son of Man ^[47]
• 2016 Linda Woodhead, Is Britain Still a Christian Country? Religion and values in the 21st century ^[48]
• 2017 Werner Jeanrond, Hope ^[49]
• 2018 Ian A. McFarland, Vere Deus, Vere Homo: Reflections on the Incarnation ^[50]
• 2019 Guy D Stiebel, There is something new under the sun ^[51]

Notes

1. Tomoko Masuzawa (26 April 2012). The Invention of World Religions: Or, How European Universalism Was Preserved in the Language of Pluralism. University of Chicago Press. p. 276. ISBN   978-0-226-92262-1.
2. James Rankin, A Handbook of the Church of Scotland (1879) p. 104; archive.org.
3. "Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae : the Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland From the Reformation, Volume 7, Page 439" . Retrieved 3 May 2014.
4. "Page 337". Christian Classics Ethereal Library . Retrieved 3 May 2014.
5. Eugene Thomas Long (30 June 2003). Twentieth-Century Western Philosophy of Religion 1900-2000. Springer. p. 14. ISBN   978-1-4020-1454-3.
6. Murray, D. M. "Milligan, William". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/18756.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
7. "Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae : the Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland From the Reformation, Volume 7, Page 404" . Retrieved 3 May 2014.
8. Louis Henry Jordan, Comparative Religion, its Genesis and Growth (1905), p. 568; archive.org.
9. Mitchell, Rosemary. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/6926.{{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
10. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). "Flint, Robert"  . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
11. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). "Scott, Archibald"  . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
12. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). "Hastie, William"  . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
13. G. M. Newlands (January 2006). Traces of Liberality: Collected Essays. Peter Lang. p. 153. ISBN   978-3-03910-296-9.
14. "Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae: the Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland From the Reformation, Volume 7, Page 423" . Retrieved 3 May 2014.
15. "Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae: the Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland From the Reformation, Volume 7, Page 394" . Retrieved 3 May 2014.
16. "Edinburgh University Archives, Biographical Database, Patrick, John 1850-1933, Regius Professor of Biblical Criticism" . Retrieved 3 May 2014.^{[ permanent dead link ]}
17. "Page 89". Christian Classics Ethereal Library . Retrieved 3 May 2014.
18. William Straton BRUCE (1905). Social Aspects of Christian Morality (Croall Lectures, 1903-4). Hodder & Stoughton.
19. J. Nelson Jennings (2005). Theology in Japan: Takakura Tokutaro (1885-1934). University Press of America. p. 473. ISBN   978-0-7618-3050-4.
20. "Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae : the Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland From the Reformation, Volume7, Page 403" . Retrieved 3 May 2014.
21. "Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae: the Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland From the Reformation, Volume 7, Pages 425–6". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 3 May 2014.
22. Fasti ecclesiæ scoticanæ; the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation vol vi (1926), p. 150; archive.org.
23. Alexander Morrison Ferguson Macinnes, The Kingdom of God in the Apostolic Writings ([1924]) p. 239; archive.org.
24. William Alexander Curtis (1945). Jesus Christ the Teacher: A Study of His Method and Message Based Mainly on the Earlier Gospels. Oxford University Press.
25. David Kay (1 January 2007). The Semitic Religions - Hebrew, Jewish, Christian & Moslem. Read Books. ISBN   978-1-4067-8844-0.
26. Henry Johnstone Wotherspoon (1928). Religious Values in the Sacraments: Being the Croall Lectures, 1926-1927. T. & T. Clark.
27. Alexander Hetherwick; Croall lectures, 1930–1931 (1932). The gospel and the African: the Croall lectures for 1930–31, on the impact of the gospel on a Central African people. T. & T. Clark.
28. Alister E. McGrath (10 May 2006). T. F. Torrance: An Intellectual Biography. Bloomsbury. p. 32. ISBN   978-0-567-03085-6.
29. William Spence Urquhart (1945). Humanism and Christianity: being the Croall lectures for 1938-39 delivered in the University of Edinburgh. T. & T. Clark.
30. Frank Leslie Cross; Elizabeth A. Livingstone (2005). The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. Oxford University Press. p. 1653. ISBN   978-0-19-280290-3.
31. John H. S. Burleigh (1949). The City of God: A Study of St. Augustine's Philosophy. Nisbet.
32. John Alexander Mackay (1953). God's order: the Ephesian letter and this present time. Macmillan.
33. John Mackenzie (1950). Two Religions. A Comparative Study of Some Distinctive Ideas and Ideals in Hinduism and Christianity, Being the Croall Lectures for 1948. London.
34. William Dickie Niven (1953). Reformation Principles After Four Centuries: The Thirty-fifth Series of Croall Lectures. Church of Scotland Committee on Publications.
35. James H. Moorhead (2012). Princeton Seminary in American Religion and Culture. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 450. ISBN   978-0-8028-6752-0.
36. Deborah Savage (1 January 2008). The Subjective Dimension of Human Work: The Conversion of the Acting Person According to Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II and Bernard Lonergan. Peter Lang. p. 49 note 22. ISBN   978-1-4331-0094-9.
37. "William Barclay.com, biography". Archived from the original on 6 May 2014. Retrieved 6 May 2014.
38. Dionysius Kempff (1975). A Bibliography of Calviniana: 1959-1974 . Brill Archive. p.  164. ISBN   0-86990-213-X.
39. William Neil (1973). The Acts of the Apostles. Attic Press. p. 14 note.
40. James Barr (28 March 2013). Bible and Interpretation: The Collected Essays of James Barr: Volume I: Interpretation and Theology. Oxford University Press. p. xxii. ISBN   978-0-19-969288-0.
41. Matthew Black (1972). A Survey of Christological Thought, 1872-1972: the Croall Centenary Lecture. Saint Andrew Press. ISBN   978-0-7152-0207-4.
42. Charles Panackel (1 January 1988). Idou Ho Anthrōpos (Jn 19,5b): An Exegetico-theological Study of the Text in the Light of the Use of the Term Anthrōpos Designating Jesus in the Fourth Gospel. Gregorian Biblical BookShop. p. 361. ISBN   978-88-7652-581-0.
43. David S. M. Hamilton (1990). Through the Waters: Baptism and the Christian Life. T. & T. Clark. ISBN   978-0-567-29178-3.
44. Titus Chung (2011). Thomas Torrance's Mediations and Revelation. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 42 note 44. ISBN   978-1-4094-0570-2.
45. "Princeton Theological Seminary". Archived from the original on 3 May 2014. Retrieved 3 May 2014.
46. Edinburgh Spring 2011 announcement (PDF) Archived 2014-05-06 at the Wayback Machine
47. "Croall Lectures delivered by Marilynne Robinson: "Son of God, Son of Man" in Edinburgh, EDH - Sep 24, 2013 4:00 PM" . Retrieved 3 May 2014.
48. "Is Britain Still a Christian Country?". University of Edinburgh. University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
49. Jeanrond, Werner G. (2020). Reasons to Hope. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. ISBN   9780567668950 . Retrieved 3 January 2021.
50. "Croall Lecture Series 2018: 'Vere Deus, Vere Homo: Reflections on the Incarnation'". School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh. University of Edinburgh. Archived from the original on 15 August 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
51. "Croall Lecture 2019: 'There is something new under the sun' - Recent finds from Masada". School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh. University of Edinburgh. Archived from the original on 22 October 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2021.