A Gifford lectures appointment is one of the most prestigious honors in academia. They are normally presented as a series over an academic year and given with the intent that the edited content be published in book form. A number of these works have become classics in the fields of Theology or Philosophy and their relationship to science.
- 1891 George Gabriel Stokes ''Natural Theology''
- 1900–02 William James '' The Varieties Of Religious Experience '', ISBN 0-679-64011-8 (several editions in print)
- 1909–10 William Warde Fowler ''The Religious Experience of the Roman People'', ISBN 0-8154-0372-0
- 1911–12 Bernard Bosanquet ''The Principle of Individuality and Value'', ISBN 0-527-10036-6
- 1913–14 Henri Bergson ''The Problem of Personality''
- 1915–16 William Mitchell Ramsay ''Asianic Elements in Greek Civilization'', ISBN 0-89005-173-9
- 1919–21 George Stout ''Mind and Matter'' pub. 1931
- 1921–23 Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison ''Studies in the Philosophy of Religion'', ISBN 0-404-60474-9
- 1923–25 James George Frazer ''The Worship of Nature'' ISBN 1-56459-532-3
- 1926–27 Arthur Eddington ''The Nature of the Physical World'', ISBN 0-472-06015-5
- 1927–28 Alfred North Whitehead ''Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology'', ISBN 0-02-934570-7
- 1928–29 John Dewey ''The Quest for Certainty: A Study of the Relation of Knowledge and Action'', ISBN 1-4179-0845-9
- 1934–35 Albert Schweitzer ''The Problem of Natural Theology and Natural Ethics'' (unpublished)
- 1937–38 Charles Sherrington ''Man on His Nature'', ISBN 0-521-06436-8
- 1938–40 Reinhold Niebuhr ''The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation '', (2 vol set): ISBN 0-664-25709-7
- 1947–49 Christopher Dawson part 1:''Religion and Culture'' ISBN 0-404-60498-6 part 2: ''Religion and the Rise of Western Culture'' ISBN 0-385-42110-9
- 1949–50 Niels Bohr ''Causality and Complementarity: Epistemological Lessons of Studies in Atomic Physics'', ISBN 1-881987-14-0
- 1952–53 Arnold J. Toynbee ''An Historian's Approach to Religion'', ISBN 0-19-215260-2
- 1954–55 Rudolf Bultmann ''History and Eschatology: The Presence of Eternity'', ISBN 0-8371-8123-2
- 1973–74 Owen Chadwick ''The Secularisation of the European Mind in the 19th Century'', ISBN 0-521-39829-0
- 1974–76 Stanley Jaki ''The Road of Science and the Ways to God'', ISBN 0-226-39145-0
- 1978–79 Sir John Eccles ''The Human Mystery'', ''The Human Psyche'', ISBN 0-387-09954-9
- 1979–80 Ninian Smart "The Varieties of Religious Identity", published as ''Beyond Ideology: Religion and the Future of Western Civilisation'', ISBN 0-06-067402-4
- 1980–81 Seyyed Hossein Nasr ''Knowledge and the Sacred'', ISBN 0-7914-0177-4
- 1981–82 Iris Murdoch ''Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals'', ISBN 0-14-017232-7
- 1984–85 Jurgen Moltmann ''God in Creation: A New Theology of Creation and the Spirit of God'', ISBN 0-8006-2823-3
- 1986–87 John Hick ''An Interpretation of Religion'', (2nd ed.): ISBN 0-300-10668-8
- 1987–88 Alasdair MacIntyre ''Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry'': ISBN 0-7156-2337-0
- 1993–94 John Polkinghorne ''Science and Christian Belief: Theological Reflections of a Bottom-up Thinker'', ISBN 0-281-04714-6
- 1997–98 Holmes Rolston III ''Genes, Genesis and God'', ISBN 0-521-64674-X
- 1998–99 Charles Taylor , ''Living in a Secular Age''
- 1999–2000 David Tracy , ''This side of God''
- 2000–01 Onora O'Neill , ''Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics''
- 2001–02 Mohammed Arkoun , ''Inaugurating a Critique of Islamic Reason''
- 2002–03 Michael Ignatieff ''The Lesser Evil - Political Ethics in an Age of Terror'', ISBN 0-691-11751-9
- 2003–04 J. Wentzel Van Huyssteen ''Alone in the World? Human Uniqueness in Science and Theology'', ISBN 0-8028-3246-6
- 2004–05 Dame Margaret Anstee , Stephen Toulmin , and Noam Chomsky , delivering a series of lectures dedicated to Edward Said who was scheduled to give the 2004–05 series before his death in 2003.
- 2005–06 Jean Bethke Elshtain , ''Sovereign God, Sovereign State, Sovereign Self''
- 2006–07 , ''The Crusades and Christianity''
- 2007–08 Alexander Nehamas , TBA and Robert M Veach , ''Hipprocratic, Religious and Secular Medical Ethics: The Point of Conflict''
- 1888–92 Friedrich Max Müller 1888: ''Natural Religion'' vol. 1 & 2; 1890: ''Physical Religion''; 1891: ''Anthropological Religion'': 1892: ''Theosophy or Psychological Religion''
- 1892–96 John Caird ''The Fundamental Ideas of Christianity'' Vol.1&2
- 1896–98 Alexander Balmain Bruce ''The Moral Order of the World'', ''The Providential Order of the World''
- 1914 Arthur Balfour ''Theism and Humanism'' ISBN 1-58742-005-8
- 1916–18 Samuel Alexander ''Space, Time, and Deity'', volume one: ISBN 0766187012, volume two: ISBN 0766187020
- 1922 Arthur Balfour ''Theism and Thought''
- 1927–28 JBS Haldane ''The Sciences and Philosophy'', ISBN 0-404-60479-X
- 1932–34 William Temple ''Nature, Man and God''
- 1953 John Macmurray ''The Self as Agent''
- 1959 Carl Friedrich Von Weizsäcker ''The Relevance of Science''
- 1970 Richard William Southern ''The Rise and Fall of the Medieval System of Religious Thought''
- 1985 Carl Sagan ''The Search for Who We Are'', published in 2006 as ''The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God'', ISBN 1-59420-107-2
- 1988 Don Cupitt ''Nature and Culture''
- 1988 Richard Dawkins ''Worlds in Microcosm''
- 1992 Mary Warnock ''Imagination and Understanding'', published as ''Imagination and Time'', ISBN 0-631-19019-8
- 1993–94 Keith Ward ''Religion and Revelation'' ISBN 0-19-826375-9 (ISBN 13: 978-0-19-826375-3)
- 1995–96 John Hedley Brooke ''Reconstructing Nature''
- 1997–98 R J (Sam) Berry ''Gods, Genes, Greens and Everything''
- 1999–00 Ralph McInerny ''Characters in Search of Their Author''
- 2001 Lynne Baker ''The Nature and Limits of Human Understanding''
- 2003–04 Simon Blackburn ''Reason's Empire''
- 1902–04 Richard Haldane ''The Pathway to Reality'', ISBN 0-404-60459-5
- 1917–18 William R. Inge ''The Philosophy of Plotinus'', ISBN 1-59244-284-6
- 1921–22 C. Lloyd Morgan ''Emergent Evolution'' (1923) ISBN 0-40460468-4, and ''Life, Mind, and Spirit'' (1925)
- 1955–56 Werner Heisenberg ''Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science'', ISBN 1-57392-694-9
- 1972–73 Alfred Ayer ''The Central Questions of Philosophy'', ISBN 0-03-013116-2
- 1975–77 Reijer Hooykaas ''Fact, Faith and Fiction in the Development of Science''
- 1977–78 David Stafford-Clark ''Myth, Magic and Denial''
- 1980–81 Gregory Vlastos ''Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher''
- 1982–83 Donald Geoffrey Charlton ''New Images of the Natural, 1750-1800''
- 1983–84 John Macquarrie ''In Search of Deity''
- 1984–85 Adolf Grunbaum ''Psychoanalytic Theory and Science''
- 1986–87 Antony Flew ''The Logic of Mortality''
- 1988–89 Walter Burkert ''Tracks of Biology and the Creation of Sense''
- 1990–91 Hilary Putnam ''Renewing Philosophy''
- 1992–93 Arthur Peacocke ''Nature, God and Humanity:''
- 1992–93 Roger Penrose ''The Question of Physical Reality''
- 1995 Nicholas Wolterstorff ''Thomas Reid and the Story of Epistemology''
- 1996–97 Michael Dummett ''Thought and Reality''
- 1999 Robert Merrihew Adams ''God and Being''
- 1999 Marilyn McCord Adams ''The Coherence of Christology''
- 2001–02 Stanley Hauerwas ''With the Grain of the Universe: The Church's Witness and Natural Theology'', ISBN 1-58743-016-9
- 2002 Peter Van Inwagen ''The Problem of Evil and the Argument from Evil''
- 2004–05 Alvin Plantinga ''Science and Religion: Conflict or Concord''
- Stanley Jaki, ''Lord Gifford and His Lectures: A Centenary Retrospect'' (1987). Scottish Academic Press, ISBN 0-7073-0465-2.
- Larry Witham, ''The Measure of God: Our Century-Long Struggle to Reconcile Science & Religion'' (2005), HarperSanFrancisco hardcover: ISBN 0-06-059191-9; reprinted as ''The Measure of God: History's Greatest Minds Wrestle with Reconciling Science and Religion'' (2006), paperback: ISBN 0-06-085833-8.
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