Previous Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lectures

Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lectures
Year	Speaker	Title
1986	Cardinal Basil Hume	"The first lecture"
1987	The Rt Revd Simeon Nkoane CR	“Spirituality in a Violent Society”
1988	Dame Janet Baker	“Spirituality and Music”
1989	The Revd Professor Rowan Williams	“On Being Creatures”
1990	The Very Revd Alan Jones	“For Their Sakes I Consecrate Myself: Priesthood and the search for a credible Catholicism”
1991	Timothy Schroder	“The Spiritual in Art”
1992	The Revd John Fenton	“John of the Cross and the Gospel according to Mark”
1993	Angela Tilby	“He Made the Stars Also…”
1994	The Revd David Conner	“Christian Counsel and the Meaning of Wholeness”
1995	The Most Revd Richard Holloway DD	“Deconstructing the Church’s Ministry”
1996	David Hare	“When Shall We Live?”
1997	The Rt Revd and Rt Hon Lord Habgood	“Waiting for God”
1998	Canon Eric James FKC	“Spirituality, Shakespeare and Royalty”
1999	The Rt Hon Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss	“Who is to judge? The role of the judiciary in ethical issues”
2000	The Revd Canon Dr Martyn Percy	A Knowledge of Angles: How spiritual are the English?”
2001	Professor Stephen Clark	“Deep Time: Does It Matter?”
2002	The Revd Mark Oakley	“Spiritual Society, Secular Church? Private prayer and public religion”
2003	The Revd Professor Duncan B Forrester	“Beyond Racism and Sectarianism: Is Religion the Problem or the Solution?”
2004	Father Timothy Radcliffe OP	“The Crisis of Truth Telling in our Society”
2005	The Revd Nicholas Holtam	“A Room with a View: The Aspiration of a Parish Church”
2006	The Very Revd Vivienne Faull	“A New Song in a Strange Land: the contribution of women to the priestly ministry of the Church”
2007	The Revd Canon Prof Richard A. Burridge	“Being Biblical? Slavery, Sexuality, and the Inclusive Community”
2008	The Revd Canon Dr Jane Shaw	“The Mystical Turn: Religious Experience in the Modern World”
2009	The Revd Professor Alister McGrath	“Religious and Scientific Faith: The Case of Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species”
2010	The Rt Revd the Lord Harries of Pentregarth	“The End of the Permissive Society? Towards a Christian Understanding of the Common Good”
2011	The Rt Revd & Rt Hon Dr Richard Chartres KCVO	“The Word in Print: Does the King James Bible have a Future?”
2012	The Rt Revd Dr Peter Selby	“Mis-Establishment: Locating, and re-locating, the Church of England”
2013	Professor Dame Averil Cameron FBA FKC	“Constantine’s Vision and the Church Today: From the Battle of the Milvian Bridge (AD312) to the Twenty-First Century”
2014	The Revd Dr Sam Wells	“Beyond Justice” Listen to the lecture by The Revd Dr Sam Wells
2015	The Revd Lucy Winkett, Rector	“Blessed are the Hypocrites?”Saying sorry in a tell-all age Listen to the lecture by The Revd Lucy Winkett
2016	Professor Sir Roger Scruton	"The Sacred, the Profane and the Desecrated" Listen to the lecture by Professor Sir Roger Scruton
2017	Salley Vickers	'Faith & Imagination: How the Arts speak to the reality of the Unseen' Listen to the lecture by Salley Vickers
2018	The Revd Richard Coles FKC	'Beating the Bounds: Parish Ministry & Spirituality Today' Listen to the lecture by The Revd Richard Coles
2019	Sir James MacMillan	'The Most Spiritual of the Arts: Music, Modernity, and the Search for the Sacred' Listen to the lecture by Sir James MacMillan
2021	Loretta Minghella	'Money, Bias and the Geography of the Heart' Listen to the lecture by Loretta Minghella
2022	The Rt Hon. the Lord Adonis	‘Securing a Europe of peace, freedom and justice’ Listen to the lecture by Lord Adonis

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