Warburton Lectures

The Warburton Lectures (until the end of the nineteenth century often called the Warburtonian Lectures) are a series of theology lectures held in Lincoln’s Inn, London. They were established in 1768 with money given by William Warburton, and were intended to bring young divines to the notice of London audiences.^[1] The set topic was the proof of Christianity through prophecies.^[2]

Lincoln's Inn Chapel, traditional venue for the lectures.

Lecturers

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• 1768–1772 Richard Hurd^[3]
• 1773–1776 Samuel Hallifax^[4]
• 1777–1780 Lewis Bagot^[5]
• 1781–1785 East Apthorp^[6]
• 1800–1804 Robert Nares^[7]
• 1807 Edward Pearson^[8]
• 1814–1815 Philip Allwood ^[9]
• 1821–1825 John Davison^[10] Discourses on Prophecy, in which are considered its structure, use and inspiration (1824)^[11]
• 1829–1832 William Rowe Lyall:^[12] his Propædia Prophetica of 1840 returned to the same circle of ideas, though Lyall made a disclaimer that this work was not the text of the lectures^[13]
• 1833–1836 Frederick Nolan^[14]
• 1837–1840 Alexander McCaul^[15]
• 1841–1845 Benjamin Harrison Prophetic Outlines of the Christian Church and the Antichristian Power^[16]
• 1845 John Frederick Denison Maurice The Epistle to the Hebrews^[17][18]
• 1849–1853 Edward Bishop Elliott The Destinies and Perils of the Church, as Predicted in Scripture^[19]
• 1854–1858 William Goode^[20][21]
• 1866 Benjamin Morgan Cowie^[22]
• 1870–1874 Edwin Hamilton Gifford Voices of the Prophets^[23]
• 1874 James Woodhouse^[24][25]
• 1876–1880 Stanley Leathes Old Testament Prophecy: its witness as a record of divine foreknowledge^[26]
• 1880–1884 Alfred Edersheim Prophecy and History in Relation to the Messiah^[27]
• 1884–1885 John Gray Richardson^[28]
• 1886–1890 Alexander Francis Kirkpatrick The Doctrine of the Prophets^[29][30]
• 1894–1898 Henry Wace Prophecy: Jewish and Christian^[31]
• 1898–1901 Herbert Edward Ryle^[32]
• 1907–1911 Michael George Glazebrook^[33]
• 1911–1915 A. Lukyn Williams, Gospel of Matthew
• 1915–1919 William Oscar Emil Oesterley^[34]
• 1919 Robert Henry Charles^[35]
• 1927–1931 David Capell Simpson^[36]
• 1931 William Ralph Inge God and the Astronomers^[37][38]

References

• Catalogue of the Library of Princeton Theological Seminary (1886), p. 131; https://archive.org/stream/catalogueoflibra00prin#page/130/mode/2up

Notes

1. Simon During, Church, State, and Modernization: English Literature as Gentlemanly Knowledge after 1688; http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/studies_in_eighteenth_century_culture/v037/37.during.html
2. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Warburton, William (1698–1779), bishop of Gloucester and religious controversialist by B. W. Young.
3. ODNB
4. ODNB
5. ODNB
6. Discourses on prophecy: read in the chapel of Lincoln's-Inn, at the lecture founded by the Right Reverend William Warburton (1786), two volumes.
7.  "Nares, Robert". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
8. "Pearson, Edward (PR778E)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
9. "Allwood, Philip (ALWT787P)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
10. ODNB;  "Davison, John". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
11. archive.org.
12. "Lyall, William Rowe (LL804WR)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
13. William Rowe Lyall (1840). Propædia Prophetica: A View of the Use and Design of the Old Testament. Followed by Two Dissertations : I. On the Causes of the Rapid Propagation of the Gospel Among the Heathen. II. On the Credibility of the Facts Related in the New Testament. J.G.F. & J. Rivington. p. vi.
14. ODNB
15. ODNB
16. Google Books (published 1849)
17. "Maurice, John Frederick Denison (MRY823JF)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
18. Google Books
19. The Destinies and Perils of the Church, as Predicted in Scripture: Being the Warburtonian lectures from 1849 to 1853
20. "Goode, William (GD820W)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
21. Google Books
22. ODNB
23. "Gifford, Edwin Hamilton (GFRT838EH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
24. "Moorhouse, James (MRS849J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
25. ODNB
26. "Leathes, Stanley (LTS848S)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
27. ODNB
28. "Richardson, John Gray (RCRT868JG)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
29. "Kirkpatrick, Alexander Francis (KRKK867AF)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
30. Google Books
31. Online at https://archive.org/details/prophecyjewishch00wace (1911 publication)
32. "Ryle, Herbert Edward (RL875HE)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
33. ODNB
34. "Oesterley, William Oscar Emil (OSTY885WO)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
35. ODNB
36. "Obituaries - Rev. Professor D. C. Simpson". The Times (53215). 9 May 1955. p. 13.
37. Published 1933
38. "Inge, William Ralph (IN879WR)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

Further reading

• The Warburton Lectures Delivered at Lincoln's Inn 1985–1994, Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn, London.
• The Warburton Lectures Delivered at Lincoln's Inn 1995–2005, Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn, London, 2006.