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Previous Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lectures

 

 Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lectures

 Year Speaker Title

2024

Canon Paula Gooder

Read: 'On Storytelling and Truth Telling'

2023

Professor Anthony Reddie

Read: 'From Black Theology to Black Lives Matter and Back Again'

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2022

The Rt Hon. the Lord Adonis

Read: 'Securing a Europe of peace, freedom & justice' 

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2021

Loretta Minghella

Read: 'Money, Bias and the Geography of the Heart'

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2019

Sir James MacMillan

Read: 'The Most Spiritual of the Arts: Music, Modernity, and the Search for the Sacred'

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2018

The Revd Richard Coles FKC

Read: 'Beating the Bounds: Parish Ministry & Spirituality Today'

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2017

Salley Vickers

Read: 'Faith & Imagination: How the Arts speak to the reality of the Unseen'

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2016

Professor Sir Roger Scruton

Read: 'The Sacred, the Profane and the Desecrated'

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2015

The Revd Lucy Winkett

Read: 'Blessed are the Hypocrites?”Saying sorry in a tell-all age'

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2014

The Revd Dr Sam Wells

Read: 'Beyond Justice'

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2013

Professor Dame Averil Cameron FBA FKC

Read: 'Constantine’s Vision and the Church Today: From the Battle of the Milvian Bridge (AD312) to the Twenty-First Century'

2012

The Rt Revd Dr Peter Selby

Read: 'Mis-Establishment: Locating, and re-locating, the Church of England'

2011

The Rt Revd & Rt Hon Dr Richard Chartres KCVO

Read: 'The Word in Print: Does the King James Bible have a Future?'

2010

The Rt Revd the Lord Harries of Pentregarth

Read: 'The End of the Permissive Society? Towards a Christian Understanding of the Common Good'

2009

The Revd Professor Alister McGrath

Read: 'Religious and Scientific Faith: The Case of Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species'

2008

The Revd Canon Dr Jane Shaw

Read: 'The Mystical Turn: Religious Experience in the Modern World'

2007

The Revd Canon Prof Richard A. Burridge

Read: 'Being Biblical? Slavery, Sexuality, and the Inclusive Community'

2006

The Very Revd Vivienne Faull

Read: 'A New Song in a Strange Land: the contribution of women to the priestly ministry of the Church'

2005

The Revd Nicholas Holtam

Read: 'A Room with a View: The Aspiration of a Parish Church'

2004

Father Timothy Radcliffe OP

Read: 'The Crisis of Truth Telling in our Society'

2003

The Revd Professor Duncan B Forrester

Read: 'Beyond Racism and Sectarianism: Is Religion the Problem or the Solution?'

2002

The Revd Mark Oakley

Read: 'Spiritual Society, Secular Church? Private prayer and public religion'

2001

Professor Stephen Clark

Read: 'Deep Time: Does It Matter?'

2000

The Revd Canon Dr Martyn Percy

Read: 'A Knowledge of Angles: How spiritual are the English?'

1999

The Rt Hon Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss

Read: 'Who is to judge? The role of the judiciary in ethical issues'

1998

Canon Eric James FKC

Read: 'Spirituality, Shakespeare and Royalty'

1997

The Rt Revd and Rt Hon Lord Habgood

Read: 'Waiting for God'

1996

David Hare

Read: 'When Shall We Live?'

1995

The Most Revd Richard Holloway DD

Read: 'Deconstructing the Church’s Ministry'

1994

The Revd David Conner

Read: 'Christian Counsel and the Meaning of Wholeness'

1993

Angela Tilby

Read: 'He Made the Stars Also…'

1992

The Revd John Fenton

Read: 'John of the Cross and the Gospel according to Mark'

1991

Timothy Schroder

Read: 'The Spiritual in Art'

1990

The Very Revd Alan Jones

Read: 'For Their Sakes I Consecrate Myself: Priesthood and the search for a credible Catholicism'

1989

The Revd Professor Rowan Williams

Read: 'On Being Creatures'

1988

Dame Janet Baker

Read: 'Spirituality and Music'

1987

The Rt Revd Simeon Nkoane CR

Read: 'Spirituality in a Violent Society'

1986

Cardinal Basil Hume

Read: 'The first lecture'

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The Very Revd Eric Symes Abbott (1906 – 1983)

Eric Symes Abbott

The Very Revd Eric Symes Abbott was Chaplain to King's College London from 1932 to 1936.