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The Boyle Lectures are named after Robert Boyle, a prominent natural philosopher of the 17th century and son of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork. Under the terms of his Will, Robert Boyle endowed a series of lectures or sermons (originally eight each year) which were to consider the relationship between Christianity and the new natural philosophy (today's 'science') then emerging in European society. Since 2004, this prestigious Lectures series has been organized, with the assistance of Board of the Boyle Lectures, by the International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR) and has been held at one of its original locations, the Wren church of St Mary-le-Bow on Cheapside in the City of London.




History






= Early lectures

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The first such lecture was given in 1692 by Richard Bentley, to whom Isaac Newton had written:

Sir, When I wrote my Treatise about our System, I had an Eye upon such Principles as might work with considering Men, for the Belief of a Deity; nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that Purpose.
The early lecturers were specifically charged to prove the truth of the Christian religion against Jews, Muslims and non-believers, without considering any controversies or differences that might exist between different Christian groups.

"To preach eight sermons in the year, for proving the Christian religion against notorious infidels, viz. Atheists, Deists, Pagans, Jews, Mahometans, not descending to any controversies that are among Christians themselves."
A clergyman was to be appointed to the lectureship for a term of no more than three years by Thomas Tenison (later Archbishop of Canterbury) and three other nominated trustees. Boyle had assigned the rent from his house in Crooked Lane to support the lectures but the income from that source soon disappeared. Archbishop Tenison then arranged that the rental income from a farm in the parish of Brill in Buckinghamshire was to be paid at the rate of £12.10.00 per quarter to the lecturer.




= Revival

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The Boyle Lectures were revived in 2004 at the famous Wren church of St Mary-le-Bow in the City of London by Dr Michael Byrne, a Fellow of Birkbeck College London. Financial support for the lectures has been provided by a number of patrons, principally the Worshipful Company of Grocers and the Worshipful Company of Mercers in the city. A book to mark the 10th anniversary of the revived series was edited by Russell Re Manning and Michael Byrne and published by SCM Press in 2013 as 'Science and Religion in the Twenty-First Century: The Boyle Lectures 2004-2013'.
Having convened the first 15 lectures in the new series, Michael Byrne stepped down as Convenor in 2018. Management of the lecture then passed to the International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR) in cooperation with the Boyle Lectures Board of Trustees. Members of the board include John Boyle, 15th Earl of Cork; the Hon. Robert Boyle; Julian Tregoning, Past Master of the Grocers' Company; Xenia Dennan, Past Master of the Mercers Company; the Revd George R. Bush, Rector of St Mary-le-Bow; Emeritus Professor John Hedley Brooke; Dr Russell Re Manning; Professor Fraser Watts; and the Revd Michael Reiss, former President of the ISSR.




Chronological list



17th century
1692 – A Confutation of Atheism, by Richard Bentley
1693-94 - A Demonstration of the Messias, in which the Truth of the Christian Religion is proved, especially against the Jews, by Richard Kidder
1694 - [Title Unknown], by Richard Bentley
1695 - The Possibility, Expediency and Necessity of Divine Revelation, by John Williams
1696 - The Perfection of the Evangelical Revelation, by John Williams
1697 - The Certainty of the Christian Revelation and the Necessity of believing it, established, by Francis Gastrell (Bishop of Chester)
1698 - The Atheistical Objections against the Being of God and His Attributes fairly considered and fully refuted, by John Harris
1699 - The Credibility of the Christian Revelation, from its intrinsick Evidence, by Samuel Bradford (Bishop of Rochester)
1700 - The Sufficiency of a Standing Revelation, by Offspring Blackall
18th century
1701–02 - Truth and Excellency of the Christian Religion, by George Stanhope
1703 - Adams
1704 - A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, by Samuel Clarke
1705 - The Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion, by Samuel Clarke
1706 - Arguments to Prove the Being of a God, by John Hancock
1707 - The Accomplishment of Scripture Prophecies, by William Whiston
1708 - The Wisdom of God in the Redemption of Man, as delivered in the Holy Scriptures, vindicated from the chief Objections of Modern Infidels, by John Turner
1709 - Religion no Matter of Shame, by Lilly Butler
1710 - The Divine Original and Excellence of the Christian Religion, by Josiah Woodward
1711–12 - Physico-Theology, or a Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God from his Works of Creation, by William Derham
1713–14 - On the Exercise of Private Judgment, or Free-Thinking, by Benjamin Ibbot
1717–18 - Natural Obligations to Believe the Principles of Religion and Divine Revelation, by John Leng
1719 - An Enquiry into the Cause and Origin of Evil, by John Clarke
1720 - On the Origin of Evil, by John Clarke
1721 - The pretended Difficulties in Natural or Revealed Religion, no Excuse for Infidelity, by Robert Gurdon
1724–25 - A Demonstration of True Religion, in a Chain of Consequences from certain and undeniable Principles, by Thomas Burnett
1725–28 - John Denne
1730–32 - The Gradual Revelation of the Gospel from the time of Man's Apostacy, by William Berriman
1736–38 - The History of the Acts of the Holy Apostles, confirmed from other Authors, and considered as full Evidence for the Truth of Christianity, by Richard Biscoe
1739–41 - Leonard Twells
1747–49 - Christianity justified upon the Scripture Foundation; being a Summery View of the Controversy between Christians and Deists, by Henry Stebbing
1750–52 - John Jortin
1756–58 - Thomas Newton
1759–62 - Charles Moss
1763 - A Discourse upon the Being of God against Atheists, by Ralph Heathcote
1766–68 - The Evidence of Christianity deduced from Facts and the Testimony of Senses throughout all Ages of the Church to the present time, by William Worthington
1769–71 - The Intent and Propriety of the Scripture Miracles considered and explained, by Henry Owen
1778–80 - An Argument for the Christian Religion, drawn from a Comparison of Revelation with the Natural Operations of the Mind, by James Williamson
19th century
1802–05 - An Historical View of the Rise and Progress of Infidelity, with a Refutation of its Principles and Reasonings, by William Van Mildert
1812 - William Van Mildert
1814 - Frederick Nolan
1821 - The Connection of Christianity with Human Happiness, by William Harness
1845–46 - The Religions of the World; and Their Relations to Christianity Considered in Eight Lectures - Frederick Denison Maurice
1854 - Christopher Wordsworth
1857 - Eight discourses on the miracles, by William Gilson Humphry
1861 - The Bible and its Critics: an Enquiry into the Objective Reality of Revealed Truths, by Edward Garbett
1862 - The Conflict between Science and Infidelity, by Edward Garbett
1863 - The Divine Plan of Revelation, by Edward Garbett
1864 - The conversion of the Roman empire, by Charles Merivale
1865 - The Conversion of the Northern Nations, by Charles Merivale
1866–67 - Christ and Christendom, by Edward Hayes Plumptre
1868 - The Witness of the Old Testament to Christ, by Stanley Leathes
1869 - The Witness of St. Paul to Christ, by Stanley Leathes
1870 - The Witness of St. John to Christ, by Stanley Leathes
1871–72 - Moral Difficulties Connected with the Bible, by James Augustus Hessey
1874–75 - Christianity and Morality Or the Correspondence of the Gospel with the Moral Nature of Man, by Henry Wace
1876 - What is Natural Theology?, by Alfred Barry
1877–78 - The Manifold Witness for Christ, by Alfred Barry
1879–80 - The Evidential Value of the Holy Eucharist, by George Frederick Maclear
1884 - The Scientific Obstacles to Christian Belief, by George Herbert Curteis
1890 - Old Truths in Modern Lights (The Present Conflict of Science and Theology), by T. G. Bonney
1891 - Christian Doctrines and Modern Thought, by T. G. Bonney
1893 - Ascent of Faith or the Grounds of Certainty in Science and Religion, by Alexander James Harrison
1895 - The Gospel of Experience Or the Witness of Human Life to the Truth of Revelation, by W. C. E. Newbolt
1897 - William Benham
20th century
1903–05 - The Testimony of St. Paul to Christ Viewed in Some of its Aspects, by Richard John Knowling
1935–36 - God, Creation and Revelation, by Allen John MacDonald
1965 - The Christian Universe, by Eric Mascall
21st century
2004 - Darwin, Design, and the Promise of Nature, by John F. Haught, with a response by Richard Chartres
2005 - Darwin's Compass: How Evolution Discovers the Song of Creation, by Simon Conway Morris, with a response by Keith Ward
2006 - The Emergence of Spirit: From Complexity to Anthropology to Theology, by Philip Clayton, with a response by Niels Gregersen
2007 - Cosmology of Ultimate Concern, by John D Barrow, with a response by Martin Rees
2008 - Psychologising and Neurologising about Religion: Facts, Fallacies and the Future, by Malcolm Jeeves, with a response by Fraser Watts
2009 - Misusing Darwin: The Materialist Conspiracy in Evolutionary Biology, by Keith Ward, with a response by John Polkinghorne
2010 - The Legacy of Robert Boyle - Then and Now, by John Hedley Brooke, with a response by Geoffrey Cantor
2011 - Is the World Unfinished? On Interactions between Science and Theology, by Jürgen Moltmann, with a response by Alan Torrance
2012 - Christ and Evolution: A Drama of Wisdom, by Celia Deane-Drummond, with a response by Fount LeRon Shults
2013 - Science and Religion in Dialogue, by John Polkinghorne, with a response by Richard Chartres
2014 - New Atheism – New Apologetics: The Use of Science in Recent Christian Apologetic Writings, by Alister McGrath, with a response by Richard Harries
2015 - Natural Theology Revisited (Again), by Russell Re Manning, with a response by Louise Hickman
2016 - Natural Theology in a Changed Key? Evolution, Cooperation, and the God Question, by Sarah Coakley, with a response by Christopher Insole
2017 - Theological Influences in Scientific Research Programmes: Natural Theology 'in Reverse', by Robert J. Russell, with a response by Rowan Williams
2018 - Apocalypses Now: Modern Science and Biblical Miracles, by Mark Harris, with a response by John Hedley Brooke
2019 - Science, Religion and Ethics, by Michael Reiss
2020 - Mental Health and the Gospel, by Christopher Cook, with a response by Fraser Watts
2021 - The Rediscovery of Contemplation Through Science, by Tom McLeish, with a response by Rowan Williams
2022 - "God and a World of Natural Evil: Theology and Science in Hard Conversation" by Prof Christopher Southgate, with a response by Andrew Davidson.
2023 - “Attending to Attention” by The Rt Revd and Rt Hon the Lord (Rowan) Williams of Oystermouth, with response from Dr John Teasdale
2024 - “Is religion natural?” by The Very Revd Professor David Fergusson, OBE, FRSE, FBA, Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, Dean of the Chapel Royal in Scotland and Dean of the Order of the Thistle, with response from Professor Fiona Ellis, Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Centre for Practical Philosophy, Theology, and Religion at the University of Roehampton, London.




References






External links


Boyle, Robert, and the Boyle Lectures, in The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Vol. II (CCEL)

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