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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”

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2015

The Revd Lucy Winkett, Rector

“Blessed are the Hypocrites?”Saying sorry in a tell-all age

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2016

Professor Sir Roger Scruton

"The Sacred, the Profane and the Desecrated"

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2017

Salley Vickers

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

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2018

The Revd Richard Coles FKC

'Beating the Bounds: Parish Ministry & Spirituality Today'

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2019

Sir James MacMillan

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

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2021

Loretta Minghella

'Money, Bias and the Geography of the Heart'

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2022

The Rt Hon. the Lord Adonis

‘Securing a Europe of peace, freedom and justice’

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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.