The Donnellan Lectures are a lecture series at Trinity College Dublin, instituted in 1794. The lectures were originally given under the auspices of the School of Hebrew, Biblical and Theological Studies. But since 1987 they have been run on a triennial basis by the Department of PhilosophySee and are no longer theological in nature. They were endowed from the estate of Anne Donnellan., Ballyd.
Lecturers (incomplete list) 1794 Thomas Elrington The Proof of Christianity… from the Miracles recorded in the New Testament 1797, 1801. Richard Graves The Divine Origin of the Jewish Religion proved from the… Last Four Books of the Pentateuch 1807. Bartholomew LloydAlumni Dubliniensis 1809 Richard Herbert NashAlumni Dubliniensis 1815–16. Franc Sadleir The Various Degrees of Religious Information Vouchsafed to Mankind 1817. [Daniel Mooney D.D.] 1818. William Phelan Christianity provides… Correctives for… Tendencies to Polytheism and Idolatry 1821, 1824. J. Kennedy The Researches of Modern Science… demonstrate the Inspiration of… Scripture 1823 Franc Sadleir The Formulas of the Church of England Conformable to the Scriptures 1838 James Henthorn Todd The Prophecies Relating to Antichrist in… Daniel and St. Paul 1839 James Henthorn Todd The Prophecies Relating to Antichrist in the Apocalypse of St. John 1851 Mortimer O'Sullivan The Hour of the Redeemer 1852 William Lee Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures 1853 W. de Burgh The Early Prophecies of a Redeemer 1854 Charles Parsons Reichel The Nature and Offices of the Church 1855 James Byrne Naturalism and Spiritualism 1855–56, 1859 J. MacIvor Religious Progress 1857 John Cotter MacDonnell The Doctrine of the Atonement deduced from Scripture 1858. J. Wills The Antecedent Probability of the Christian Religion 1860 Atkins Pastoral Duties 1861 W. P Walsh Christian Missions 1862 W. de Burgh Messianic Prophecies of Isaiah 1865 Ryder The Scripture Doctrine of Acceptance with God 1877 John Hewitt Jellett The efficacy of prayer 1878–9 George Alexander Chadwick Christ bearing witness to himself 1880–1 Charles H. H. Wright The Book of Koheleth, Commonly Called Ecclesiastes, Considered in Relation to Modern Criticism, and to the Doctrines of Modern Pessimism 1885–5 Mortimer O'Sullivan The Gospel in the Miracles of Christ, Man's Knowledge of Man and of God 1887–8 William Lefroy The Christian Ministry: Its Origin, Constitution, Nature and Work 1888–9 J. H. Kennedy Natural Theology and Modern Thought 1889–90 Thomas Sterling Berry, DD Christianity and Buddhism : a comparison and a contrast 1890 Frederick Falkiner Carmichael, LLD 1891 Thomas Lucas Scott, MA 1892 William Malcolm Foley, BD 1893 Henry Francis John Martin, MA 1894 Lewen Burton Weldon, DD 1896 John Henry Bernard, DD 1899 Charles Frederick D'Arcy Idealism and theology: a study of presuppositions
1900–2026 1900–1 G. R. Wynne The Church in Greater Britain 1901–2 James Owen Hannay (ps. George A. Birmingham) Spirit and Origin of Christian Monasticism 1903–4 Rev. Frederick W. Macran 1906–7 H. J. Dunkinfield Astley Prehistoric Archaeology and The Old Testament 1911–2 Everard Digges La Touche The Person of Christ in Modern Thought 1913–4 Charles Frederick D'Arcy God and Freedom in Human Experience W. Boyd Carpenter The Witness of Religious Experience Reginald Ingram Montgomery Hitchcock 1920 Joseph Armitage Robinson Barnabas, Hermas and the Didache 1921 A. A. Luce Bergson's Doctrine of Intuition 1922 Viscount Haldane 1923 Reginald Arthur Percy Rogers 1924 F. C. Burkitt The Religion of the Manichees 1929 C. D. Broad 1930 John Scott Haldane The philosophical basis of biology 1931 Arthur Darby Nock 1936 H. Laski 1937 Arthur Salter 1938 Robin Flower 1943 Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron Dunsany 1944 T. E. Jessop 1945 Robert Ditchburn 1946 E. T. Whittaker Space and Spirit 1948 H. H. Price 1952 W. T. Stace 1954 H. Frankel 1989 Jerry Fodor 1992 Martha Nussbaum 1995 Richard Sorabji 1998 Richard Rorty 2002 Stanley Cavell 2005 Jonathan Lear 2008 Robert Pippin 2014 David Chalmers 2017 Susan Wolf 2020 Linda Zagzebski (delivery postponed to 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic) 2026 Ruth Chang Hard Choices in Life, Law, and LLMs
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