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Friends of Dr Williams’s Library Lectures

The following are in print:-

Date of lecture
Lecture title and date of publication
1947
Dr. Williams and his library, by Stephen Kay Jones.  1948.
1952 The trial of Jesus, by G. D. Kilpatrick.  1953.
1953
Organic design: Scientific thought from Ray to Paley, by C. E. Raven.  1954.
1954
The true and the valid, by Richard Ithamar Aaron. 1955.
1955 Cistercians & Cluniacs: the controversy between St. Bernard and Peter the Venerable, by M. D. Knowles.   1955.
1956
The Religious philosophy of Dean Mansel, by W. R. Matthews.  1956.
1957
Sir Robert Walpole, Samuel Holden, and the dissenting deputies, by Norman C. Hunt.  1957.
1958
Facts and Obligations, by Dorothy Emmet.  1958.
1959
Ascetics and humanists in eleventh-century Byzantium, by J. M. Hussey.  1960.
1960
The Essene problem, by Matthew Black.  1961.
1962
Daniel Williams Presbyterian Bishop, by Roger Thomas.  1964.
1963
A mirror of Elizabethan Puritanism; the life and letters of ‘Godly Master Dering’, by Patrick Collinson.  1964.
1964
Methodism and the Puritans, by John A. Newton 1964.
1965
Friends of humanity; with special reference to the Quaker, William Allen, 1770-1843, by L. Hugh. Doncaster.  1965.
1966
From Darwin to Blatchford: the Role of Darwinism in Christian Apologetic, 1875-1910, by John Kent.  1966.
1967
Dissenters and public affairs in mid-Victorian England, by Frank Reyner. Salter.  1967.
1968
The significance of the Bhagavad-Gita for Christian theology, by Edward Geoffrey Parrinder. 1968.
1969
Joseph Butler, 1692-1752, author of The analogy of religion: some features of his life and thought, by Ian T. Ramsey.  1969.
1970
Edward Carpenter, 1844-1929: democratic author and poet, by Edward Carpenter.  1970.
1971
John a Lasco, 1499-1560: a Pole in Reformation England, by Basil Hall.  1971.
1972
A seventeenth-century defender of Islam: Henry Stubbe (1632-76) and his book, by P. M. Holt.  1972.
1973
Piety in Queen Victoria’s reign, by Elizabeth Longford.  1973.
1974
Which God is dead? by R. C. Zaehner.  1974.
1975
John Foxe the martyrologist: his life and time, by Neville Williams.  1975.
1976
Architects of dissent: some nonconformist patrons and their architects, by Christopher Stell.  1976.
1977
Hanserd Knollys and radical dissent in the 17th century, by B. R. White.  1977.
1978
Life and story in the Pilgrim’s progress, by Roger Sharrock.  1978.
1979
A venerable dissenting institution Dr. William’s Library, 1729-1979, by Ernest A.  Payne.  1979.
1980
Church, state, and learning in twelfth century Byzantium, by Robert Browning.  1981.
1981
Belmont’s Portias: Victorian nonconformists and middle-class education for girls, by Clyde Binfield.  1981.
1982
Peter and Jack: Roman Catholics and dissent in eighteenth century England, by Eamon Duffy.  1982.
1983
Godly exercises or the devil’s dance?: puritanism and popular culture in pre-Civil War England, by Jeremy Goring.  1983.
1984
Symbols for the divine in the Kabbalah, by Louis Jacobs.  1984.
1985
Denominationalism and dissent, 1795-1835: a question of identity, by David M. Thompson.  1985.
1986
The Crusades and the unity of Christendom, by Donald MacGillivray Nicol.  1986.
1987
Zoroastrianism: a shadowy but powerful presence in the Judaeo-Christian world, by Mary Boyce.  1987.
1988
The theology of rhetoric: the Epistle to the Hebrews, by Christopher Francis Evans.  1988.
1989
The idea of tolerance and the act of toleration, by Johannes van den Berg.  1989.
1990
The fortunes of English puritanism, 1603-1640, by Nicholas Tyacke.  1990.
1991
Loving & free converse: Richard Baxter in his letters, by N. H. Keeble.  1991.
1992
Is Christianity a historical religion? by Keith Ward.  1992.
1993
The church in the Byzantine Dark Ages, by Averil Cameron.  1993.
1994
John Wesley, 1703-1791: a bicentennial tribute, by John Walsh.  1993.
1995 Why did the English stop going to church?, by Michael Watts.   1995.
1996
‘To revive the memory of some excellent men’: Edmund Calamy and the early historians of nonconformity, by David L. Wykes.  1997.
1997
Theophilus Lindsey: from Anglican to Unitarian, by G. M. Ditchfield.  1998.
1998
The Jewish Messiah: the future of a delusion, by Dan Cohn-Sherbok.  1999
2000
Puritanism and the origins of the English Civil War, by W. M. Lamont.  2001.
2001
Those eighteenth century divines: writing for the new Dictionary of National Biography, by Alan Ruston.  2001.
2002

The defence of truth through the knowledge of error: Philip Doddridge’s academy lectures, by Isabel Rivers. 2003.

2003

'If it looks like an elephant’: defining the crusade, by Norman Housley. 2004.

2004

The Ethiopic Book of Enoch in recent research, by Michael A. Knibb. 2005.

2005

The letters of Theophilus Lindsey and the cause of Protestantism in late eighteenth-century Britain, by G. M. Ditchfield. 2007.

2006

Continuity and change in Protestant preaching in Early Modern England, by Ian M. Green. 2009.                                

2007 A darker shade of Pepys: the Entring Book of Roger Morrice, by Mark Goldie. 2009.

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