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]

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

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]