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The **Croall Lectures** are a lecture series in [Christian theology](/source/Christian_theology) given in [Edinburgh](/source/Edinburgh), and founded in 1876.[1] The Lectures were endowed by John Croall of Southfield, who died in 1871.[2]

## Lecturers

- 1876 [John Tulloch](/source/John_Tulloch)[3]
- 1878–79 [John Caird](/source/John_Caird_(theologian)),[4] *Philosophy of Religion*[5]
- 1879–80 [William Milligan](/source/William_Milligan), *The Resurrection of Our Lord*[6]
- 1882 [Archibald Hamilton Charteris](/source/Archibald_Hamilton_Charteris),[7] *The New Testament Scriptures: their claims, history, and authority*
- 1885[8] John Cunningham, *The Growth of the Church*[9]
- 1887 [Robert Flint](/source/Robert_Flint_(theologian)), *Agnosticism*[10]
- 1889 [Archibald Scott](/source/Archibald_Scott_(moderator)),[11] *Buddhism and Christianity; a Parallel and a Contrast*
- 1892 [William Hastie](/source/William_Hastie), *The Theology of the Reformed Church*[12][13]
- 1893–94 James Robertson,[14] *Poetry and Religion of the Psalms*
- 1897 Thomas Nicol,[15] *Recent Archaeology and the Bible*
- 1899 Rev Prof John Patrick (Professor of [Biblical Criticism](/source/Biblical_criticism)), *Clement of Alexandria*[16]
- 1901–02 Alexander Stewart,[17] *Creeds and Churches: Studies in Symbolics*
- 1903–04 William Straton Bruce, *Social Aspects of Christian Morality*[18]
- 1907–08 [Andrew Wallace Williamson](/source/Andrew_Wallace_Williamson), *The Person of Christ in the Faith of the Church*
- 1911–12 [George Milligan](/source/George_Milligan_(Church_of_Scotland)), *The New Testament Documents, their origin and early history*
- 1912–13 Andrew Blair Wann, *The Message of Christ to India*[19]
- 1913? James Nicoll Ogilvie
- 1914 Archibald Robert Stirling Kennedy[20]
- 1916 James Cooper[21]
- 1918–19 William Leslie Davidson, *Recent Theistic Discussion*[22]
- 1920–21 Rev Prof William Alexander Curtis[23][24]'
- 1923 David Miller Kay, *The Semitic Religions*[25]
- 1925 H. M. B. Reid, *The Holy Spirit and the Mystics*
- 1926–27 Henry Johnstone Wotherspoon, *Religious Values in the Sacraments*[26]
- 1928 J. Garrow Duncan, *Digging Up Biblical History. Recent Archaeology In Palestine And Its Bearing On The Old Testament*
- 1930–31, Alexander Hetherwick, *The Gospel and the African*[27]
- 1933 [Hugh Ross Mackintosh](/source/Hugh_Ross_Mackintosh), *Types of Modern Theology, Schleiermacher to Barth*[28]
- 1936 Otto Piper, *God in History*
- 1937 George Simpson Duncan, *Jesus, Son of Man: studies contributory to a modern portrait*
- 1938–39 [William Spence Urquhart](/source/William_Spence_Urquhart). *Humanism and Christianity*[29]
- 1942 [Leonard Hodgson](/source/Leonard_Hodgson), *The Doctrine of the Trinity*[30]
- 1944 [John Henderson Seaforth Burleigh](/source/J._H._S._Burleigh), *The City of God; a study of St. Augustine's philosophy*[31]
- 1948 [John A. Mackay](/source/John_A._Mackay), *Ephesians*[32]
- 1948 John Mackenzie, *Two Religions. A Comparative Study of Some Distinctive Ideas and Ideals in Hinduism and Christianity*[33]
- 1949 [William Dickie Niven](/source/William_Dickie_Niven), *Reformation Principles after Four Centuries*[34]
- 1951 George Stuart Hendry, *The Gospel of the Incarnation*[35]
- 1953 James Brown, *Subject and Object in Modern Theology*[36]
- 1954–57 [George Barclay](/source/William_Barclay_(theologian)), *The Ethical Vocabulary of Saint Paul*[37]
- 1955 John Gervase Riddell, *The Calling of God*
- 1960 James Stevenson McEwen, *The Faith of John Knox*[38]
- 1960–61 Martin Andrew Simpson, *Defender of the Faith, etcetera Elizabeth of England, her Church and Parliament, 1558–59*
- 1965 David Haxton Carswell Read, *Christian Ethics*
- 1967, William Neil, *The Apostolic Age*, published as *The Truth about the Early Church*[39]
- 1970 [James Barr](/source/James_Barr_(biblical_scholar)), *The Bible in the Modern World*[40]
- 1972 [Matthew Black](/source/Matthew_Black), *A Survey of Christological Thought, 1872-1972*[41]
- 1980 T. E. Pollard, *Fullness of Humanity: Christ's Humanness and Ours*[42]
- 1983 D. W. D. (Bill) Shaw
- 1987 David S. M. Hamilton, *Through the Waters: Baptism and the Christian life*[43]
- 1998 Frances Young
- 2005 [John Barton](/source/John_Barton_(theologian)), *The Nature of Biblical Criticism*[44]
- 2011 [Bruce Lindley McCormack](/source/Bruce_Lindley_McCormack), *Abandoned by God: The Death of Christ in Systematic, Historical and Exegetical Perspective*[45][46]
- 2013 [Marilynne Robinson](/source/Marilynne_Robinson), *Son of God, Son of Man*[47]
- 2016 [Linda Woodhead](/source/Linda_Woodhead), *Is Britain Still a Christian Country? Religion and values in the 21st century*[48]
- 2017 [Werner Jeanrond](/source/Werner_Jeanrond), *Hope*[49]
- 2018 [Ian A. McFarland](/source/Ian_A._McFarland), *Vere Deus, Vere Homo: Reflections on the Incarnation*[50]
- 2019 Guy D Stiebel, *There is something new under the sun*[51]

## Notes

1. Tomoko Masuzawa (26 April 2012). [*The Invention of World Religions: Or, How European Universalism Was Preserved in the Language of Pluralism*](https://books.google.com/books?id=Quu3VvTFnnAC&pg=PA276). University of Chicago Press. p. 276. ISBN 978-0-226-92262-1.

1. James Rankin, *A Handbook of the Church of Scotland* (1879) p. 104; [archive.org.](https://archive.org/stream/handbookofchurc00rank#page/104/mode/2up)

1. ["Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae : the Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland From the Reformation, Volume 7, Page 439"](http://www.mocavo.com/Fasti-Ecclesiae-Scoticanae-the-Succession-of-Ministers-in-the-Church-of-Scotland-From-the-Reformation-Volume-7/660502/439). Retrieved 3 May 2014.

1. ["Page 337"](http://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/encyc/encyc02/htm/old/0353=337.htm). *[Christian Classics Ethereal Library](/source/Christian_Classics_Ethereal_Library)*. Retrieved 3 May 2014.

1. Eugene Thomas Long (30 June 2003). [*Twentieth-Century Western Philosophy of Religion 1900-2000*](https://books.google.com/books?id=Okz-KIU_VS8C&pg=PA14). Springer. p. 14. ISBN 978-1-4020-1454-3.

1. Murray, D. M. "Milligan, William". 18756.

1. ["Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae : the Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland From the Reformation, Volume 7, Page 404"](http://www.mocavo.com/Fasti-Ecclesiae-Scoticanae-the-Succession-of-Ministers-in-the-Church-of-Scotland-From-the-Reformation-Volume-7/660502/404). Retrieved 3 May 2014.

1. [Louis Henry Jordan](/source/Louis_Henry_Jordan), *Comparative Religion, its Genesis and Growth* (1905), p. 568; [archive.org.](https://archive.org/stream/cu31924029054810#page/n593/mode/2up)

1. Mitchell, Rosemary. 6926.

1. Vol. 2.

1. Vol. 3.

1. Vol. 2.

1. G. M. Newlands (January 2006). [*Traces of Liberality: Collected Essays*](https://books.google.com/books?id=21IlTBc03RQC&pg=PA153). Peter Lang. p. 153. ISBN 978-3-03910-296-9.

1. ["Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae: the Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland From the Reformation, Volume 7, Page 423"](http://www.mocavo.com/Fasti-Ecclesiae-Scoticanae-the-Succession-of-Ministers-in-the-Church-of-Scotland-From-the-Reformation-Volume-7/660502/423). Retrieved 3 May 2014.

1. ["Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae: the Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland From the Reformation, Volume 7, Page 394"](http://www.mocavo.com/Fasti-Ecclesiae-Scoticanae-the-Succession-of-Ministers-in-the-Church-of-Scotland-From-the-Reformation-Volume-7/660502/394). Retrieved 3 May 2014.

1. ["Edinburgh University Archives, Biographical Database, Patrick, John 1850-1933, Regius Professor of Biblical Criticism"](https://archive.today/20140503065639/http://www.archives.lib.ed.ac.uk/biographical/?view=ind&id=236). Archived from [the original](http://www.archives.lib.ed.ac.uk/biographical/?view=ind&id=236) on 3 May 2014. Retrieved 3 May 2014.

1. ["Page 89"](http://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/encyc/encyc11/htm/old/0109=89.htm). *[Christian Classics Ethereal Library](/source/Christian_Classics_Ethereal_Library)*. Retrieved 3 May 2014.

1. William Straton BRUCE (1905). [*Social Aspects of Christian Morality (Croall Lectures, 1903-4)*](https://books.google.com/books?id=KuPgngEACAAJ). Hodder & Stoughton.

1. J. Nelson Jennings (2005). [*Theology in Japan: Takakura Tokutaro (1885-1934)*](https://books.google.com/books?id=Ksv3LP35ErIC&pg=PA473). University Press of America. p. 473. ISBN 978-0-7618-3050-4.

1. ["Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae : the Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland From the Reformation, Volume7, Page 403"](http://www.mocavo.com/Fasti-Ecclesiae-Scoticanae-the-Succession-of-Ministers-in-the-Church-of-Scotland-From-the-Reformation-Volume-7/660502/403). Retrieved 3 May 2014.

1. ["Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae: the Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland From the Reformation, Volume 7, Pages 425–6"](https://web.archive.org/web/20160304090726/http://www.mocavo.com/Fasti-Ecclesiae-Scoticanae-the-Succession-of-Ministers-in-the-Church-of-Scotland-From-the-Reformation-Volume-7/660502/425#426). Archived from [the original](http://www.mocavo.com/Fasti-Ecclesiae-Scoticanae-the-Succession-of-Ministers-in-the-Church-of-Scotland-From-the-Reformation-Volume-7/660502/425#426) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 3 May 2014.

1. *Fasti ecclesiæ scoticanæ; the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation* vol vi (1926), p. 150; [archive.org.](https://archive.org/stream/fastiecclesiu06scotuoft#page/150/mode/2up)

1. Alexander Morrison Ferguson Macinnes, *The Kingdom of God in the Apostolic Writings ([1924]) p. 239; [archive.org.](https://archive.org/stream/MN41948ucmf_2#page/n241/mode/2up)*

1. William Alexander Curtis (1945). [*Jesus Christ the Teacher: A Study of His Method and Message Based Mainly on the Earlier Gospels*](https://books.google.com/books?id=qMJGAAAAIAAJ). Oxford University Press.

1. David Kay (1 January 2007). [*The Semitic Religions - Hebrew, Jewish, Christian & Moslem*](https://books.google.com/books?id=Ya9YRqYGakwC). Read Books. ISBN 978-1-4067-8844-0.

1. Henry Johnstone Wotherspoon (1928). [*Religious Values in the Sacraments: Being the Croall Lectures, 1926-1927*](https://archive.org/details/MN41382ucmf_7). T. & T. Clark.

1. Alexander Hetherwick & Croall lectures, 1930–1931 (1932). [*The gospel and the African: the Croall lectures for 1930–31, on the impact of the gospel on a Central African people*](https://books.google.com/books?id=ntclAQAAIAAJ). T. & T. Clark.

1. Alister E. McGrath (10 May 2006). [*T. F. Torrance: An Intellectual Biography*](https://books.google.com/books?id=2GsYXgxjYdsC&pg=PA32). Bloomsbury. p. 32. ISBN 978-0-567-03085-6.

1. William Spence Urquhart (1945). [*Humanism and Christianity: being the Croall lectures for 1938-39 delivered in the University of Edinburgh*](https://books.google.com/books?id=-_xRAAAAMAAJ). T. & T. Clark.

1. Frank Leslie Cross & Elizabeth A. Livingstone (2005). [*The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church*](https://books.google.com/books?id=fUqcAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1653). Oxford University Press. p. 1653. ISBN 978-0-19-280290-3.

1. John H. S. Burleigh (1949). [*The City of God: A Study of St. Augustine's Philosophy*](https://books.google.com/books?id=scrWAAAAMAAJ). Nisbet.

1. John Alexander Mackay (1953). [*God's order: the Ephesian letter and this present time*](https://books.google.com/books?id=9dvYAAAAMAAJ). Macmillan.

1. John Mackenzie (1950). [*Two Religions. A Comparative Study of Some Distinctive Ideas and Ideals in Hinduism and Christianity, Being the Croall Lectures for 1948*](https://books.google.com/books?id=tlAPMwEACAAJ). London.

1. William Dickie Niven (1953). [*Reformation Principles After Four Centuries: The Thirty-fifth Series of Croall Lectures*](https://books.google.com/books?id=E0cHuwAACAAJ). Church of Scotland Committee on Publications.

1. James H. Moorhead (2012). [*Princeton Seminary in American Religion and Culture*](https://books.google.com/books?id=NCaC0eOyHAgC&pg=PA450). Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 450. ISBN 978-0-8028-6752-0.

1. Deborah Savage (1 January 2008). [*The Subjective Dimension of Human Work: The Conversion of the Acting Person According to Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II and Bernard Lonergan*](https://books.google.com/books?id=VL8nNF-vFC4C&pg=PA49). Peter Lang. p. 49 note 22. ISBN 978-1-4331-0094-9.

1. ["William Barclay.com, biography"](https://web.archive.org/web/20140506102526/http://william-barclay.com/biography/). Archived from [the original](http://william-barclay.com/biography/) on 6 May 2014. Retrieved 6 May 2014.

1. Dionysius Kempff (1975). [*A Bibliography of Calviniana: 1959-1974*](https://archive.org/details/bibliographyofca0000kemp). Brill Archive. p. [164](https://archive.org/details/bibliographyofca0000kemp/page/164). ISBN 0-86990-213-X.

1. William Neil (1973). [*The Acts of the Apostles*](https://books.google.com/books?id=NJ8NAQAAMAAJ). Attic Press. p. 14 note.

1. James Barr (28 March 2013). [*Bible and Interpretation: The Collected Essays of James Barr: Volume I: Interpretation and Theology*](https://books.google.com/books?id=XJ4npIFbsKUC&pg=PR22). Oxford University Press. p. xxii. ISBN 978-0-19-969288-0.

1. Matthew Black (1972). [*A Survey of Christological Thought, 1872-1972: the Croall Centenary Lecture*](https://books.google.com/books?id=IQ7WAAAACAAJ). Saint Andrew Press. ISBN 978-0-7152-0207-4.

1. Charles Panackel (1 January 1988). [*Idou Ho Anthrōpos (Jn 19,5b): An Exegetico-theological Study of the Text in the Light of the Use of the Term Anthrōpos Designating Jesus in the Fourth Gospel*](https://books.google.com/books?id=bBDyr0XdA0oC&pg=PA361). Gregorian Biblical BookShop. p. 361. ISBN 978-88-7652-581-0.

1. David S. M. Hamilton (1990). [*Through the Waters: Baptism and the Christian Life*](https://books.google.com/books?id=DcnyOAAACAAJ). T. & T. Clark. ISBN 978-0-567-29178-3.

1. Titus Chung (2011). [*Thomas Torrance's Mediations and Revelation*](https://books.google.com/books?id=g8FNWMRoJJEC&pg=PA42). Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 42 note 44. ISBN 978-1-4094-0570-2.

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1. [Edinburgh Spring 2011 announcement (PDF)](http://www.docs.hss.ed.ac.uk/divinity/News%20and%20events/Events%20archive/School%20seminars/Spring%202011/Theology,%20History%20&%20Ethics%20Seminars%20Sem%202%202011.pdf) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20140506120246/http://www.docs.hss.ed.ac.uk/divinity/News%20and%20events/Events%20archive/School%20seminars/Spring%202011/Theology%2C%20History%20%26%20Ethics%20Seminars%20Sem%202%202011.pdf) 2014-05-06 at the Wayback Machine

1. ["Croall Lectures delivered by Marilynne Robinson: "Son of God, Son of Man" in Edinburgh, EDH - Sep 24, 2013 4:00 PM"](http://edinburgh.eventful.com/events/croall-lectures-delivered-marilynne-robinson-/E0-001-059178605-0). Retrieved 3 May 2014.

1. ["Is Britain Still a Christian Country?"](https://www.ed.ac.uk/news/2015/christiancountry-200215). *University of Edinburgh*. University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 3 January 2021.

1. Jeanrond, Werner G. (2020). [*Reasons to Hope*](https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/reasons-to-hope/). London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. ISBN 9780567668950. Retrieved 3 January 2021.

1. ["Croall Lecture Series 2018: 'Vere Deus, Vere Homo: Reflections on the Incarnation'"](https://web.archive.org/web/20200815023443/https://www.ed.ac.uk/divinity/news-events/events/event-archive/croall-lecture-series-2018). *School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh*. University of Edinburgh. Archived from [the original](https://www.ed.ac.uk/divinity/news-events/events/event-archive/croall-lecture-series-2018) on 15 August 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2021.

1. ["Croall Lecture 2019: 'There is something new under the sun' - Recent finds from Masada"](https://web.archive.org/web/20201022041043/https://www.ed.ac.uk/divinity/news-events/events/event-archive/croall-lecture-2019-masada). *School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh*. University of Edinburgh. Archived from [the original](https://www.ed.ac.uk/divinity/news-events/events/event-archive/croall-lecture-2019-masada) on 22 October 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2021.

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