The Dwight H. Terry Lectureship, also known as the Terry Lectures, was established at Yale University in 1905[1] 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.
The 1905 deed of gift establishing the lectureship states:
The object of this foundation is not the promotion of scientific investigation and discovery, but rather the assimilation and interpretation of that which has been or shall be hereafter discovered, and its application to human welfare, especially by the building of the truths of science and philosophy into the structure of a broadened and purified religion. The founder believes that such a religion will greatly stimulate intelligent effort for the improvement of human conditions and the advancement of the race in strength and excellence of character. To this end it is desired that a series of lectures be given by men eminent in their respective departments, on ethics, the history of civilization and religion, biblical research, all sciences and branches of knowledge which have an important bearing on the subject, all the great laws of nature, especially of evolution ... also such interpretations of literature and sociology as are in accord with the spirit of this foundation, to the end that the Christian spirit may be nurtured in the fullest light of the world’s knowledge and that mankind may be helped to attain its highest possible welfare and happiness upon this earth.[2]
Although commitment to the gift was made in 1905 it did not mature until 1923, which is when the first Terry lectures were held.
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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.
1955–1956: Rebecca WestThe Court and the Castle: Some Treatments of a Recurrent Theme[3]
1956–1957: Errol Eustace HarrisThe Idea of God in Modern Thought / Revelation Through Reason: Religion in the Light of Science and Philosophy: ISBN978-0-317-27547-6
1967–1968: Clifford GeertzIn Search of Islam: Religious Change in Indonesia / Islam Observed: Religious Development in Morocco and Indonesia: ISBN978-0-226-28511-5
2006 (Centennial Conference): Ronald L. NumbersAggressors, Victims, and Peacemakers: Historical Actors in the Drama of Science and Religion[3]
2006 (Centennial Conference): Kenneth R. MillerDarwin, God, and Dover: What the Collapse of 'Intelligent Design' Means for Science and for Faith in America[3]
2006 (Centennial Conference): Alvin PlantingaScience and Religion: Why Does the Debate Continue?[3]
2006 (Centennial Conference): Lawrence M. KraussReligion vs. Science? From the White House to Classroom[3]
2006 (Centennial Conference): Robert WuthnowNo Contradictions Here: Science, Religion, and the Culture of All Reasonable Possibilities[3]
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The Dwight H Terry Lectureship also known as the Terry Lectures was established at Yale University in 1905 1 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 Contents 1 Establishment 2 Lecture format 3 Past lectureship holders 4 See also 5 References 6 External linksEstablishment editThe 1905 deed of gift establishing the lectureship states The object of this foundation is not the promotion of scientific investigation and discovery but rather the assimilation and interpretation of that which has been or shall be hereafter discovered and its application to human welfare especially by the building of the truths of science and philosophy into the structure of a broadened and purified religion The founder believes that such a religion will greatly stimulate intelligent effort for the improvement of human conditions and the advancement of the race in strength and excellence of character To this end it is desired that a series of lectures be given by men eminent in their respective departments on ethics the history of civilization and religion biblical research all sciences and branches of knowledge which have an important bearing on the subject all the great laws of nature especially of evolution also such interpretations of literature and sociology as are in accord with the spirit of this foundation to the end that the Christian spirit may be nurtured in the fullest light of the world s knowledge and that mankind may be helped to attain its highest possible welfare and happiness upon this earth 2 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 editThe 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 edit1923 1924 John Arthur Thomson Concerning Evolution ISBN 978 0 300 13567 1 1924 1925 Henry Norris Russell Fate and Freedom ISBN 978 0 300 13569 5 1925 1926 William Ernest Hocking The Self Its Body and Freedom ISBN 978 0 404 59191 5 1926 1927 Robert Andrews Millikan Evolution in Science and Religion ISBN 978 0 300 13568 8 1927 1928 William Brown Science and Personality ISBN 978 0 8434 0076 2 1928 1929 James Young Simpson Nature Cosmic Human and Divine ISBN 978 0 300 13565 7 1929 1930 William Pepperell Montague Belief Unbound A Promethean Religion for the Modern World ISBN 978 0 300 13575 6 1930 1931 Hermann Weyl The Open World ISBN 978 0 918024 71 8 1931 1932 Arthur Holly Compton The Freedom of Man ISBN 978 0 300 13570 1 1932 1933 Herbert Spencer Jennings The Universe and Life ISBN 978 0 300 13652 4 1933 1934 John Dewey A Common Faith ISBN 978 0 300 00069 6 1934 1935 Joseph Needham Order and Life ISBN 978 0 300 13654 8 1935 1936 John Macmurray The Structure of Religious Experience ISBN 978 0 300 13566 4 1936 1937 Joseph Barcroft The Brain and Its Environment 3 1937 1938 Carl Gustav Jung Psychology and Religion ISBN 978 0 300 00137 2 1938 1939 Te Rangi Hiroa Anthropology and Religion ISBN 978 0 208 00950 0 1939 1940 Henry Ernest Sigerist Medicine and Human Welfare ISBN 978 0 300 13574 9 1940 1941 Alan Gregg The Furtherance of Medical Research 3 1941 1942 Reinhold Niebuhr 3 1942 1943 Alexander Dunlop Lindsay Religion Science and Society in the Modern World ISBN 978 0 8369 2604 0 1942 1943 Jacques Maritain Education at the Crossroads ISBN 978 0 300 00163 1 1943 1944 George Washington Corner Ourselves Unborn An Embryologist s Essay on Man ISBN 978 0 300 13578 7 1944 1945 Julius Seelye Bixler Conversations with an Unrepentant Liberal ISBN 978 0 300 13584 8 1945 1946 James Bryant Conant On Understanding Science ISBN 978 0 300 13655 5 1946 1947 Henri Frankfort 3 1946 1947 Charles Hartshorne The Divine Relativity A Social Conception of God ISBN 978 0 300 02880 5 1947 1948 Alexander Stewart Ferguson 3 1948 1949 George Gaylord Simpson The Meaning of Evolution ISBN 978 0 300 00229 4 1949 1950 Erich Fromm Psychoanalysis and Religion ISBN 978 0 300 00089 4 1950 1951 Paul Johannes Tillich The Courage to Be ISBN 978 0 300 08471 9 1951 1952 Jerome Clarke Hunsaker Aeronautics at the Mid Century ISBN 978 0 300 13577 0 1953 1954 Gordon Willard Allport Becoming Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality ISBN 978 0 300 00002 3 1954 1955 Pieter Geyl Use and Abuse of History ISBN 978 0 300 13651 7 1955 1956 Rebecca West The Court and the Castle Some Treatments of a Recurrent Theme 3 1956 1957 Errol Eustace Harris The Idea of God in Modern Thought Revelation Through Reason Religion in the Light of Science and Philosophy ISBN 978 0 317 27547 6 1957 1958 Margaret Mead Continuities in Cultural Evolution ISBN 978 0 7658 0604 8 1958 1959 Hermann Dorries Constantine and Religious Liberty ISBN 978 0 300 13653 1 1961 1962 Paul Ricoeur The Philosopher Before Symbols published as Freud and Philosophy An Essay on Interpretation ISBN 978 0 300 02189 9 1961 1962 Norbert Wiener Prolegomena to Theology 3 1962 1963 Michael Polanyi Man and Thought A Symbiosis The Tacit Dimension ISBN 978 0 8446 5999 2 1963 1964 Walter J Ong The Presence of the Word Some Prolegomena for Cultural and Religious History ISBN 978 0 300 09973 7 1964 1965 James Munro Cameron Images of Authority A Consideration of the Concept of Regnum and Sacerdotium ISBN 978 0 300 13580 0 1966 1967 Loren Eiseley 3 1967 1968 Clifford Geertz In Search of Islam Religious Change in Indonesia Islam Observed Religious Development in Morocco and Indonesia ISBN 978 0 226 28511 5 1968 1969 Albert J Reiss Jr Civility and the Moral Order The Police and the Public ISBN 978 0 300 01646 8 1971 1972 James Hillman Re Visioning Psychology ISBN 978 0 06 063931 0 1973 1974 Father Theodore M Hesburgh The Humane Imperative A Challenge for the Year 2000 ISBN 978 0 300 13579 4 1975 1976 David Baken And They Took Themselves Wives Male Female Relations in the Bible 3 1976 1977 Philip Rieff 3 1977 1978 Hans Kung Freud and the Problem of God ISBN 978 0 300 04723 3 1978 1979 Adin Steinsaltz 3 1979 1980 Hans Jonas Technology and Ethics The Imperative of Responsibility ISBN 978 0 226 40597 1 1985 1986 Stephen Jay Gould Darwin and Dr Doolittle Just History as the Wellspring of Nature s Order 3 1986 1987 Eric R Kandel Cell and Molecular Biological Explorations of Learning and Memory 3 1988 1989 Joshua Lederberg Science and Modern Life 3 1993 1994 Walter J Gehring Genetic Control of Development ISBN 978 0 300 07409 3 1996 1997 Rev John Polkinghorne Belief in God in an Age of Science ISBN 978 0 300 07294 5 1998 David Hartman Struggling for the Soul of Israel A Jewish Response to History ISBN 978 0 300 08378 1 1999 Bas C Van Fraassen The Empirical Stance ISBN 978 0 300 10306 9 2000 Peter Singer One World The Ethics and Politics of Globalization ISBN 978 0 300 10305 2 2001 Francisco J Ayala From Biology to Ethics An Evolutionist s View of Human Nature 3 2003 H C Erik Midelfort Exorcism and Enlightenment Johann Joseph Gassner and the Demons of 18th Century Germany ISBN 978 0 300 10669 5 2003 Mary Douglas Writing in Circles Ring Composition as a Creative Stimulus ISBN 978 0 300 11762 2 2004 David Sloan Wilson Evolution for Everyone 3 2006 Centennial Conference Ronald L Numbers Aggressors Victims and Peacemakers Historical Actors in the Drama of Science and Religion 3 2006 Centennial Conference Kenneth R Miller Darwin God and Dover What the Collapse of Intelligent Design Means for Science and for Faith in America 3 2006 Centennial Conference Alvin Plantinga Science and Religion Why Does the Debate Continue 3 2006 Centennial Conference Lawrence M Krauss Religion vs Science From the White House to Classroom 3 2006 Centennial Conference Robert Wuthnow No Contradictions Here Science Religion and the Culture of All Reasonable Possibilities 3 2006 Barbara Herrnstein Smith Natural Reflections Human Cognition at the Nexus of Science and Religion ISBN 978 0 300 14034 7 2007 Ahmad Dallal Islam Science and the Challenge of History ISBN 978 0 300 17771 8 2008 Terry Eagleton Faith and Fundamentalism Is Belief in Richard Dawkins Necessary for Salvation ISBN 978 0 300 15179 4 2008 Donald S Lopez Jr The Scientific Buddha Past Present Future ISBN 978 0 226 49312 1 2009 Marilynne Robinson Absence of Mind The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self ISBN 978 0 300 17147 1 2010 Joel Primack and Nancy Ellen Abrams Cosmic Society The New Universe and the Human Future ISBN 978 0 300 16508 1 2012 Keith Stewart Thomson Jefferson and Darwin Science and Religion in Troubled Times 3 2013 Philip Kitcher Secular Humanism 3 2014 Wendy Doniger The Manipulation of Religion by the Sciences of Politics and Pleasure in Ancient India 3 2015 Janet Browne Becoming Darwin History Memory and Biography 3 2016 17 Kwame Anthony Appiah The Anatomy of Religion 3 2017 Judith Farquhar Reality Reason and Action In and Beyond Chinese Medicine 3 2018 Thomas E Lovejoy The World of the Born and the World of the Made A New Vision of Our Emerald Planet 3 2022 Karen Barad Energetics of the Otherwise and the Material Force of Justice Diffractive Readings of Walter Benjamin and Quantum Physics 3 2024 Lorraine Daston Natural Disasters and the Question of Blame 4 See also editSilliman Memorial LecturesReferences edit Yale University Dwight H Terry Lectureship Archived from the original on November 9 2007 Retrieved October 9 2007 Yale University Press The Terry Lectures Series a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac Previous Lectureships The Dwight H Terry Lectureship Yale University Retrieved August 6 2019 Current Lectureship The Dwight H Terry Lectureship Retrieved May 1 2024 External links editOfficial website Terry Lectures playlist on YouTube Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Dwight H Terry Lectureship amp oldid 1221886589, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
