Gifford lectures | Oak Park Public Library

1) The varieties of religious experience: a study in human nature

Author

James, William, 1842-1910

Volume

1901-1902

Earliest Publication Date

1929

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The renowned psychologist and philosopher argues that individual religious experiences, rather than the tenets of organized religions, form the backbone of religious life; discussing conversion, repentance, mysticism, and hope of reward and fears of punishment in the hereafter, as well as his observations on the religious experiences of such diverse thinkers as Voltaire, Emerson, and Luther.

2) Space, time, and Deity: the Gifford lectures at Glasgow 1916-1918

Author

Alexander, Samuel, 1859-1938

Volume

1916-1918

Earliest Publication Date

1966

3) The nature of the physical world

Author

Eddington, Arthur Stanley, Sir, 1882-1944

Volume

1927

Earliest Publication Date

1929

4) The spirit of mediæval philosophy

Author

Gilson, Étienne, 1884-1978

Volume

1931-1932

Earliest Publication Date

1936

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All these lectures converge to this conclusion: that the Middle Ages produced, besides a Christian literature and a Christian art as everyone admits, this very Christian philosophy which is a matter of dispute. No one, of course, maintains that this mediaeval philosophy was created out of nothing, nor yet that all mediaeval philosophy was Christian -- just as no one maintains that mediaeval literature and art were created out of nothing or were wholly...

5) Man on his nature

Author

Sherrington, Charles Scott, Sir, 1857-1952

Volume

1937-38

Earliest Publication Date

1975

6) The nature and destiny of man: a Christian interpretation

Author

Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971

Volume

1939

Earliest Publication Date

1943

7) The divine flame: an essay towards a natural history of religion; the second of two series of Gifford lectures on science, natural history and religion delivered in the University of Aberdeen, during the session 1964-5

Author

Hardy, Alister, Sir, 1896-1985

Volume

1964-65

Earliest Publication Date

1966

8) Knowledge and the Sacred

Author

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein

Volume

1981

Earliest Publication Date

1981

9) The varieties of scientific experience: a personal view of the search for God

Author

Sagan, Carl, 1934-1996

Volume

1985

Earliest Publication Date

2006

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Sagan sets down his detailed thoughts on the relationship between religion and science and describes his personal search to understand the nature of the sacred in the vastness of the cosmos. In 1985, Sagan was invited to give the famous Gifford Lectures in Scotland on the grand occasion of the lectureship's centennial. The result is this delightfully intimate discussion of his views on topics ranging from the likelihood of intelligent life on other...

10) The faith of a physicist: reflections of a bottom-up thinker

Author

Polkinghorne, J. C., 1930-2021

Volume

1993-4

Earliest Publication Date

1994

11) A secular age

Author

Taylor, Charles, 1931-

Volume

1999

Earliest Publication Date

2007

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"What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age? Almost everyone would agree that we - in the West, at least - largely do. And clearly the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly in the last few centuries. Charles Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean - of what, precisely, happens when a society in which it is virtually impossible not to believe in God becomes one in which faith, even for the staunchest...

12) Who's in charge?: free will and the science of the brain

Author

Gazzaniga, Michael S

Volume

2009

Earliest Publication Date

2011

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"The "father of cognitive neuroscience" makes a powerful and provocative argument against today's common wisdom that our lives are wholly determined by physical processes we cannot control"-- Provided by publisher.

13) In God's image: an anthropology of the spirit

Author

Welker, Michael, 1947-

Volume

2019-20

Earliest Publication Date

2021

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"In God's Image describes how centering our culture on the human and divine spirit can revitalize four universally acknowledged characteristics of a thriving human existence: justice, freedom, truth, and peace. Inspired not only by religious sources but also by scientists, philosophers, economists, and legal and political theorists, Michael Welker develops the idea of a 'multimodal'" spirit that generates the possibility of living and acting in the...

14) Ethics in an Age of Technology

Author

Barbour, Ian G

Earliest Publication Date

2013

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The Gifford Lectures have challenged our greatest thinkers to relate the worlds of religion, philosophy, and science. Now Ian Barbour has joined ranks with such Gifford lecturers as William James, Carl Jung, and Reinhold Neibuhr. In 1989 Barbour presented his first series of Gifford Lectures, published as Religion in an Age of Science. In 1990 he returned to Scotland to present his second series, dealing with ethical issues arising from technology...

15) Religion in an age of science

Author

Barbour, Ian G

Earliest Publication Date

1990

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A comprehensive examination of the major issues between science and religion in today's world.

16) The lesser evil: political ethics in an age of terror

Author

Ignatieff, Michael

Earliest Publication Date

2004

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"Finalist for the 2004 Lionel Gelber Prize" Michael Ignatieff, a writer, historian, and broadcaster, is Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University. His books include Isaiah Berlin: A Life, Blood and Belonging, The Warrior's Honor, and The Needs of Strangers. His novel Scar Tissue was nominated for the Booker Prize, and his book The Russian Album, A Family Memoir won Canada's Governor General's Award and the Heinemann...