Date University Lecturer Title ISBN
1891 Edinburgh George Gabriel Stokes Natural Theology
1888–92 Glasgow Friedrich Max Müller Natural Religion vol. 1 & 2; Physical Religion, Anthropological Religion; Theosophy or Psychological Religion
1892–96 Glasgow John Caird The Fundamental Ideas of Christianity Vol.1&2
1896–98 Aberdeen James Ward Naturalism and Agnosticism
1896–98 Edinburgh Cornelis Tiele On the Elements of the Science of Religion ISBN 0-404-60480-3
1896–98 Glasgow Alexander Balmain Bruce The Moral Order of the World, The Providential Order of the World
1898–00 Aberdeen Josiah Royce The World and the Individual
1900–02 Edinburgh William James The Varieties of Religious Experience ISBN 0-679-64011-8
1902–04 St Andrews Richard Haldane The Pathway to Reality ISBN 0-404-60459-5
1904-06 Aberdeen James Adam The Religious Teachers of Greece
1907-1908 Aberdeen Hans Driesch The Science and Philosophy of the Organism
1909–10 Edinburgh William Warde Fowler The Religious Experience of the Roman People ISBN 0-8154-0372-0
1910-12 Glasgow John Watson The Interpretation of Religious Experience
1911–12 Edinburgh Bernard Bosanquet The Principle of Individuality and Value ISBN 0-527-10036-6
1911–13 Aberdeen Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison The Idea of God in the light of Recent Philosophy
1913–14 Edinburgh Henri Bergson The Problem of Personality
1914 Glasgow Arthur Balfour Theism and Humanism ISBN 1-58742-005-8
1914–15 Aberdeen William Ritchie Sorley Moral Values and the Idea of God
1915–16 Edinburgh William Mitchell Ramsay Asianic Elements in Greek Civilization ISBN 0-89005-173-9
1916–18 Glasgow Samuel Alexander Space, Time, and Deity ISBN 0-7661-8701-2
ISBN 0-7661-8702-0
1917–18 St Andrews William R. Inge The Philosophy of Plotinus ISBN 1-59244-284-6
1919–20 St Andrews Lewis Richard Farnell Greek Hero Cults and Ideas of Immortality
1919–21 Edinburgh George Stout Mind and Matter pub. 1931
1921–22 St Andrews C. Lloyd Morgan Emergent Evolution and Life, Mind, and Spirit ISBN 0-404-60468-4
1921–23 Edinburgh Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison Studies in the Philosophy of Religion ISBN 0-404-60474-9
1922 Glasgow Arthur Balfour Theism and Thought
1923–25 Edinburgh James George Frazer The Worship of Nature ISBN 1-56459-532-3
1926–27 Edinburgh Arthur Eddington The Nature of the Physical World ISBN 0-472-06015-5
1926-28 St Andrews Alfred Edward Taylor The faith of a moralist, The Theological Implications of Morality; Natural Theology and the Positive Religions
1927-28 Aberdeen Alfred North Whitehead Process and Reality
1927–28 Edinburgh Alfred North Whitehead Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology ISBN 0-02-934570-7
1927–28 Glasgow J. S. Haldane The Sciences and Philosophy ISBN 0-404-60479-X
1928–29 Edinburgh John Dewey The Quest for Certainty: A Study of the Relation of Knowledge and Action ISBN 1-4179-0845-9
1930–32 Aberdeen Etienne Gilson The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy
1932–34 Glasgow William Temple Nature Man and God
1934–35 Edinburgh Albert Schweitzer The Problem of Natural Theology and Natural Ethics (unpublished)
1936–37 St Andrews Werner Jaeger The Theology of the Early Greek Philosophers
1936–38 Aberdeen Karl Barth The Knowledge of God and the Service of God according to the Teaching of the Reformation
1937–38 Edinburgh Charles Sherrington Man on His Nature ISBN 0-521-06436-8
1938–40 Edinburgh Reinhold Niebuhr The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation (2 vol set) ISBN 0-664-25709-7
1939–40 Aberdeen Arthur Darby Nock Hellenistic Religion - The Two Phases
1947–49 Edinburgh Christopher Dawson Religion and Culture ISBN 0-404-60498-6
ISBN 0-385-42110-9
1949–50 Aberdeen Gabriel Marcel The Mystery of Being, Faith and Reality ISBN 1-890318-85-X, ISBN 1-890318-86-8
1949–50 Edinburgh Niels Bohr Causality and Complementarity: Epistemological Lessons of Studies in Atomic Physics ISBN 1-881987-14-0
1950–52 Edinburgh Charles Earle Raven Natural Religion and Christian Theology
1951–52 Aberdeen Michael Polanyi Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy ISBN 0-226-67288-3
1952–53 Edinburgh Arnold J. Toynbee An Historian's Approach to Religion ISBN 0-19-215260-2
1952–54 Glasgow John Macmurray The Form of the Personal: The Self as Agent (1) / Persons in Relation (2) ISBN 1-57392-337-0
ISBN 1-57392-625-6
1953–54 Aberdeen Paul Tillich Systematic Theology (3 vols.) ISBN 0-226-80337-6
ISBN 0-226-80338-4
ISBN 0-226-80339-2
1954–55 Edinburgh Rudolf Bultmann History and Eschatology: The Presence of Eternity ISBN 0-8371-8123-2
1955–56 St Andrews Werner Heisenberg Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science ISBN 1-57392-694-9
1959 Glasgow Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker The Relevance of Science
1959–60 St Andrews Georg Henrik von Wright Norm and Action and The Varieties of Goodness
1961–62 Edinburgh John Baillie The Sense of the Presence of God
1962–64 St Andrews Henry Chadwick Authority in the Early Church
1963&1965 Aberdeen Alister Hardy The Living Stream The Divine Flame
1964–66 St Andrews John Findlay The Discipline of the Cave and The Transcendence of the Cave ISBN 978-0-04-111002-9
1965–1967 Aberdeen Raymond Aron La Conscience historique dans la pensée et dans l'action
1965 Glasgow Herbert Butterfield Historical Writing and Christian Beliefs and Human Beliefs and the Development of Historical Writing
1967–69 St Andrews Robert Charles Zaehner Concordant Discord: The Interdependence of Faiths
1970 Glasgow Richard William Southern The Rise and Fall of the Medieval System of Religious Thought
1972–73 St Andrews Alfred Ayer The Central Questions of Philosophy ISBN 0-03-013116-2
1973 Aberdeen Hannah Arendt Life of the Mind
1973–74 Edinburgh Owen Chadwick The Secularisation of the European Mind in the 19th Century ISBN 0-521-39829-0
1974-76 Glasgow Basil Mitchell Morality, Religious and Secular
1974–76 Edinburgh Stanley Jaki The Road of Science and the Ways to God ISBN 0-226-39145-0
1975–77 St Andrews Reijer Hooykaas Fact, Faith and Fiction in the Development of Science, Magic and Denial
1977–78 St Andrews David Stafford-Clark Myth, Magic and Denial
1978–79 Edinburgh John Eccles The Human Mystery"
1979-80 Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh Seyyed Hossein Nasr Knowledge and the Sacred ISBN 0-7914-0177-4
1980–81 St Andrews Gregory Vlastos Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher
1981–82 Edinburgh Iris Murdoch Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals ISBN 0-14-017232-7
1982–83 St Andrews Donald Geoffrey Charlton New Images of the Natural, 1750-1800
1982–84 Aberdeen Richard Swinburne The Evolution of the Soul ISBN 0-19-823698-0
1983-84 Edinburgh David Daiches God and the Poets ISBN 0-19-812825-8
1983–84 St Andrews John Macquarrie In Search of Deity
1984–85 Aberdeen Freeman Dyson Infinite In All Directions ISBN 0-06-072889-2
1984–85 Edinburgh Jurgen Moltmann God in Creation: A New Theology of Creation and the Spirit of God ISBN 0-8006-2823-3
1984–85 St Andrews Adolf Grunbaum Psychoanalytic Theory and Science
1985 Glasgow 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
1985-86 Edinburgh Paul Ricoeur Oneself as another ISBN 0-226-71329-6
1986 Glasgow Donald M. MacKay Behind the Eye
1986–87 Edinburgh John Hick An Interpretation of Religion (2nd ed.) ISBN 0-300-10668-8
1986–87 St Andrews Antony Flew The Logic of Mortality
1987–88 Edinburgh Alasdair MacIntyre Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry ISBN 0-7156-2337-0
1988 Glasgow Don Cupitt Nature and Culture
1988 Glasgow Richard Dawkins Worlds in Microcosm
1988–89 Edinburgh Raimon Panikkar Trinity and Theism ISBN 978-1-57075-855-3
1988–89 St Andrews Walter Burkert Tracks of Biology and the Creation of Sense
1989–90 Edinburgh Mary Douglas Claims on God: published (much revised) as In the Wilderness ISBN 1-85075-444-6
1989–91 Aberdeen Ian Barbour Religion in an Age of Science ISBN 0-06-060383-6
1990–91 St Andrews Hilary Putnam Renewing Philosophy
1992–93 Aberdeen Jaroslav Pelikan Christianity and Classical
1992 Glasgow Mary Warnock Imagination and Understanding, published as Imagination and Time ISBN 0-631-19019-8
1992–93 St Andrews Arthur Peacocke Nature, God and Humanity
1992–93 St Andrews Roger Penrose The Question of Physical Reality
1993–94 Edinburgh John Polkinghorne Science and Christian Belief: Theological Reflections of a Bottom-up Thinker ISBN 0-281-04714-6
1993–94 Glasgow Keith Ward Religion and Revelation ISBN 978-0-19-826375-3
1994–95 Aberdeen John W. Rogerson Faith and Criticism in the Work of William Robertson Smith 1846-1894
1994–95 Aberdeen M. A. Stewart New Light and Enlightenment
1994–95 Aberdeen Peter Jones Science and Religion before and after Hume
1994–95 Aberdeen James H. Burns The Order of Nature
1994–95 Aberdeen Alexander Broadie The Shadow of Scotus
1995–96 Edinburgh G. A. Cohen If you're an Egalitarian, how come you're so Rich? ISBN 0-674-00693-3
1995 St Andrews Nicholas Wolterstorff Thomas Reid and the Story of Epistemology
1995–96 Glasgow Geoffrey Cantor
John Hedley Brooke
Reconstructing Nature
1996–97 Edinburgh Richard Sorabji Emotions and How to Cope with Them, published as Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation ISBN 0-19-825005-3
1996–97 St Andrews Michael Dummett Thought and Reality
1997–98 Aberdeen Russell Stannard The God Experiment
1997–98 Edinburgh Holmes Rolston III Genes, Genesis and God ISBN 0-521-64674-X
1997–98 Glasgow R J (Sam) Berry Gods, Genes, Greens and Everything
1998–99 Edinburgh Charles Taylor Living in a Secular Age, published as A Secular Age ISBN 0-674-02676-4
1999–2000 Glasgow Ralph McInerny Characters in Search of Their Author
1999 St Andrews Robert Merrihew Adams God and Being
1999 St Andrews Marilyn McCord Adams The Coherence of Christology
1999–2000 Edinburgh David Tracy This side of God
2000–01 Aberdeen John S. Habgood The Concept of Nature
2000–01 Edinburgh Onora O'Neill Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics
2001 Glasgow Brian Hebblethwaite
George Lakoff
Lynne Baker;
Michael Ruse
Philip Johnson-Laird]]
The Nature and Limits of Human Understanding
2001–02 Edinburgh Mohammed Arkoun Inaugurating a Critique of Islamic Reason
2001–02 St Andrews Stanley Hauerwas With the Grain of the Universe: The Church's Witness and Natural Theology ISBN 1-58743-016-9
2002–03 Edinburgh Michael Ignatieff The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror ISBN 0-691-11751-9
2002–03 St Andrews Peter van Inwagen The Problem of Evil ISBN 978-0-19-954397-7
2003 Aberdeen Eleonore Stump Wandering in the Darkness
2003–04 Aberdeen John Haldane Mind, Soul and Deity
2003–04 Edinburgh J. Wentzel van Huyssteen Alone in the World? Human Uniqueness in Science and Theology ISBN 0-8028-3246-6
2003–04 Glasgow Simon Blackburn Reason's Empire
2004–05 Edinburgh Dame Margaret Anstee
Stephen Toulmin
Noam Chomsky
A series of lectures dedicated to Edward (sched give 04–05 before 03 death)
2004–05 St Andrews Alvin Plantinga Science and Religion: Conflict or Concord
2005 Glasgow John E. Hare
2005–06 Edinburgh Jean Bethke Elshtain Sovereign God, Sovereign State, Sovereign Self
2006-07 Edinburgh Jonathan Riley-Smith The Crusades and Christianity
2006–07 Edinburgh Simon Conway Morris Darwin's Compass: How Evolution Discovers the Song of Creation
2007 Aberdeen Stephen Pattison Seeing Things: Deepening Relations with Visual Artefacts ISBN 978-0-334-04149-8
2007 St Andrews Martin Rees 21st Century Science: Cosmic Perspective and Terrestrial Challenges
2007–08 Edinburgh Alexander Nehamas Because it was he, because it was I: Friendship and Its Place in Life
2007–08 Glasgow David Fergusson Religion and Its Recent Critics, published as Faith and Its Critics: A Conversation ISBN 978-0-19-956938-0
2008 Edinburgh Robert M. Veatch Hipprocratic, Religious and Secular Medical Ethics: The Point of Conflict
2008–09 Edinburgh Diana Eck The Age of Pluralism
2008–09 Glasgow Charles Taylor The Necessity of Secularist Regimes
2009 Aberdeen Alister McGrath A Fine-Tuned Universe: The Quest for God in Science and Theology ISBN 978-0-664-23310-5
2009–10 Edinburgh Michael Gazzaniga Mental Life
2009–10 Edinburgh Terry Eagleton The God Debate
2009–10 Glasgow Gianni Vattimo The End of Reality
2010 St Andrews Roger Scruton The Face of God
2010-11 Edinburgh Gordon Brown The Future of Jobs and Justice
2010–11 Edinburgh Peter Harrison Science, Religion and the Modern World, published as The Territories of Science and Religion ISBN 978-0226184487
2011-12 Edinburgh Lord Sutherland of Houndwood David Hume and Civil Society
2011–12 Edinburgh Diarmaid MacCulloch Silence in Christian History: the witness of Holmes' Dog
2012 Aberdeen Sarah Coakley Sacrifice Regained: Evolution, Cooperation and God
2012 Glasgow Vilayanur Ramachandran Body and Mind: Insights from Neuroscience
2012-13 Edinburgh Bruno Latour Once Out of Nature - Natural Religion as a Pleonasm
2012-13 Edinburgh Steven Pinker The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity
2013-14 Edinburgh Baroness Onora O'Neill From Toleration to Freedom of Expression
2013-14 Edinburgh Rowan Williams Making representations: religious faith and the habits of language
2013-14 Edinburgh Catherine O'Regan What is Caesar's? Adjudicating faith in modern constitutional democracies
2014 Aberdeen David N. Livingstone Dealing with Darwin: Place, Politics and Rhetoric in Religious Engagements with Evolution
2014 Glasgow Jean-Luc Marion Givenness and Revelation
2014-15 Edinburgh Jeremy Waldron One Another's Equals: The Basis of Human Equality
2014-15 Edinburgh Helga Nowotny Beyond Innovation. Temporalities. Re-use. Emergence.
2015 Glasgow Perry Schmidt-leukel Interreligious Theology: The Future Shape of Theology
2016 Glasgow Sean M. Carroll Culture: The Metamorphosis of Natural Theology in the Christian Encounter With Hellenism ISBN 0-300-06255-9
2016-17 Edinburgh Richard English Nationalism, Terrorism and Religion
2016-17 Edinburgh Jeffrey Stout Religion Unbound: Ideals and Powers from Cicero to King
2017-18 Edinburgh Agustín Fuentes Why We Believe: evolution, making meaning, and the development of human natures
2017-18 Edinburgh Elaine Howard Ecklund Science and Religion in Global Public Life