Dwight H. Terry Lectureship

Dwight H. Terry Lectureship
The Dwight H. Terry Lectureship, also known as the Terry Lectures, was established at Yale University in 1905 by a gift from Dwight H. Terry of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Its purpose is to engage both scholars and the public in a consideration of religion from a humanitarian point of view, in the light of modern science and philosophy. The subject matter has historically been similar to that of the Gifford Lectures in Scotland, and several lecturers have participated in both series.
Establishment
The 1905 deed of gift establishing the lectureship states:
Although commitment to the gift was made in 1905 it did not mature until 1923, which is when the first Terry lectures were held.
Lecture format
The lectures are free and open to the public. A single installment generally consists of four lectures by the same visiting scholar, given over the course of a month or less. Many of the lectures have been edited into books published by the Yale University Press, and remain in print to this day (see below). From 1999 to 2009 the lectures were recorded and posted on the Terry Lectures website as audio and/or video streams. Starting in 2008, recordings of the lectures have been made available via Yale's YouTube channel.
Past lectureship holders
1923–1924 John Arthur Thomson Concerning Evolution:
1924–1925 Henry Norris Russell Fate and Freedom:
1925–1926 William Ernest Hocking The Self: Its Body and Freedom:
1926–1927 Robert Andrews Millikan Evolution in Science and Religion:
1927–1928 William Brown Science and Personality:
1928–1929 James Young Simpson Nature: Cosmic, Human, and Divine:
1929–1930 William Pepperell Montague Belief Unbound: A Promethean Religion for the Modern World:
1930–1931 Hermann Weyl The Open World:
1931–1932 Arthur Holly Compton The Freedom of Man:
1932–1933 Herbert Spencer Jennings The Universe and Life:
1933–1934 John Dewey A Common Faith:
1934–1935 Joseph Needham Order and Life:
1935–1936 John Macmurray The Structure of Religious Experience:
1936–1937 Joseph Barcroft The Brain and Its Environment
1937–1938 Carl Gustav Jung Psychology and Religion:
1938–1939 Te Rangi Hīroa Anthropology and Religion:
1939–1940 Henry Ernest Sigerist Medicine and Human Welfare:
1940–1941 Alan Gregg The Furtherance of Medical Research
1941–1942 Reinhold Niebuhr
1942–1943 Alexander Dunlop Lindsay Religion, Science, and Society in the Modern World:
1942–1943 Jacques Maritain Education at the Crossroads:
1943–1944 George Washington Corner Ourselves Unborn: An Embryologist's Essay on Man:
1944–1945 Julius Seelye Bixler Conversations with an Unrepentant Liberal:
1945–1946 James Bryant Conant On Understanding Science:
1946–1947 Henri Frankfort
1946–1947 Charles Hartshorne The Divine Relativity: A Social Conception of God:
1947–1948 Alexander Stewart Ferguson
1948–1949 George Gaylord Simpson The Meaning of Evolution:
1949–1950 Erich Fromm Psychoanalysis and Religion:
1950–1951 Paul Johannes Tillich The Courage to Be:
1951–1952 Jerome Clarke Hunsaker Aeronautics at the Mid-Century:
1953–1954 Gordon Willard Allport Becoming: Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality:
1954–1955 Pieter Geyl Use and Abuse of History:
1955–1956 Rebecca West The Court and the Castle: Some Treatments of a Recurrent Theme
1956–1957 Errol Eustace Harris The Idea of God in Modern Thought / Revelation Through Reason: Religion in the Light of Science and Philosophy:
1957–1958 Margaret Mead Continuities in Cultural Evolution:
1958–1959 Hermann Dörries Constantine and Religious Liberty:
1961–1962 Paul Ricoeur The Philosopher Before Symbols (published as Freud and Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation: )
1961–1962 Norbert Wiener Prolegomena to Theology
1962–1963 Michael Polanyi Man and Thought: A Symbiosis / The Tacit Dimension:
1963–1964 Walter J. Ong The Presence of the Word: Some Prolegomena for Cultural and Religious History:
1964–1965 James Munro Cameron Images of Authority: A Consideration of the Concept of Regnum and Sacerdotium:
1966–1967 Loren Eiseley
1967–1968 Clifford Geertz In Search of Islam: Religious Change in Indonesia / Islam Observed: Religious Development in Morocco and Indonesia:
1968–1969 Albert J. Reiss Jr. Civility and the Moral Order: The Police and the Public:
1971–1972 James Hillman Re-Visioning Psychology:
1973–1974 Father Theodore M. Hesburgh The Humane Imperative: A Challenge for the Year 2000:
1975–1976 David Baken And They Took Themselves Wives: Male Female Relations in the Bible
1976–1977 Philip Rieff
1977–1978 Hans Küng Freud and the Problem of God:
1978–1979 Adin Steinsaltz
1979–1980 Hans Jonas Technology and Ethics: The Imperative of Responsibility:
1985–1986 Stephen Jay Gould Darwin and Dr. Doolittle: ‘Just History’ as the Wellspring of Nature’s Order
1986–1987 Eric R. Kandel Cell and Molecular Biological Explorations of Learning and Memory
1988–1989 Joshua Lederberg Science and Modern Life
1993–1994 Walter J. Gehring Genetic Control of Development:
1996–1997 Rev. John Polkinghorne Belief in God in an Age of Science:
1998 David Hartman Struggling for the Soul of Israel: A Jewish Response to History:
1999 Bas C. Van Fraassen The Empirical Stance:
2000 Peter Singer One World: The Ethics and Politics of Globalization:
2001 Francisco J. Ayala From Biology to Ethics: An Evolutionist's View of Human Nature
2003 H.C. Erik Midelfort Exorcism and Enlightenment: Johann Joseph Gassner and the Demons of 18th-Century Germany:
2003 Mary Douglas Writing in Circles: Ring Composition as a Creative Stimulus:
2004 David Sloan Wilson Evolution for Everyone
2006 (Centennial Conference) Ronald L. Numbers Aggressors, Victims, and Peacemakers: Historical Actors in the Drama of Science and Religion
2006 (Centennial Conference) Kenneth R. Miller Darwin, God, and Dover: What the Collapse of 'Intelligent Design' Means for Science and for Faith in America
2006 (Centennial Conference) Alvin Plantinga Science and Religion: Why Does the Debate Continue?
2006 (Centennial Conference) Lawrence M. Krauss Religion vs. Science? From the White House to Classroom
2006 (Centennial Conference) Robert Wuthnow No Contradictions Here: Science, Religion, and the Culture of All Reasonable Possibilities
2006 Barbara Herrnstein Smith Natural Reflections: Human Cognition at the Nexus of Science and Religion "
2007 Ahmad Dallal Islam, Science, and the Challenge of History :
2008 Terry Eagleton Faith and Fundamentalism: Is Belief in Richard Dawkins Necessary for Salvation? :
2008 Donald S. Lopez, Jr. The Scientific Buddha: Past, Present, Future :
2009 Marilynne Robinson Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self :
2010 Joel Primack and Nancy Ellen Abrams Cosmic Society: The New Universe and the Human Future :
2012 Keith Stewart Thomson Jefferson and Darwin: Science and Religion in Troubled Times
2013 Philip Kitcher Secular Humanism
2014 Wendy Doniger The Manipulation of Religion by the Sciences of Politics and Pleasure in Ancient India
2015 Janet Browne Becoming Darwin: History, Memory, and Biography
2016-17 Kwame Anthony Appiah The Anatomy of Religion
2017 Judith Farquhar Reality, Reason, and Action In and Beyond Chinese Medicine
2018 Thomas E. Lovejoy The World of the Born and the World of the Made: A New Vision of Our Emerald Planet
2019 Karen Barad
See also
Silliman Memorial Lectures
References
External links
Terry Lectures playlist on YouTube
Philosophy events
Philosophy of religion
University and college lecture series
Lectures on religion and science
Yale University
1905 establishments in Connecticut
Recurring events established in 1905