Dwight H. Terry Lectureship

The Dwight H. Terry Lectureship, also known as the Terry Lectures, was established at

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

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
  ISBN 978-0-300-13567-1
• 1924–1925
  ISBN 978-0-300-13569-5
• 1925–1926
  ISBN 978-0-404-59191-5
• 1926–1927
  ISBN 978-0-300-13568-8
• 1927–1928
  ISBN 978-0-8434-0076-2
• 1928–1929
  ISBN 978-0-300-13565-7
• 1929–1930
  ISBN 978-0-300-13575-6
• 1930–1931
  ISBN 978-0-918024-71-8
• 1931–1932
  ISBN 978-0-300-13570-1
• 1932–1933
  ISBN 978-0-300-13652-4
• 1933–1934
  ISBN 978-0-300-00069-6
• 1934–1935
  ISBN 978-0-300-13654-8
• 1935–1936
  ISBN 978-0-300-13566-4
• 1936–1937 Joseph Barcroft The Brain and Its Environment^[3]
• 1937–1938
  ISBN 978-0-300-00137-2
• 1938–1939
  ISBN 978-0-208-00950-0
• 1939–1940
  ISBN 978-0-300-13574-9
• 1940–1941
  Alan Gregg The Furtherance of Medical Research^[3]
• 1941–1942 Reinhold Niebuhr^[3]
• 1942–1943
  ISBN 978-0-8369-2604-0
• 1942–1943
  ISBN 978-0-300-00163-1
• 1943–1944
  ISBN 978-0-300-13578-7
• 1944–1945
  ISBN 978-0-300-13584-8
• 1945–1946
  ISBN 978-0-300-13655-5
• 1946–1947 Henri Frankfort^[3]
• 1946–1947
  ISBN 978-0-300-02880-5
• 1947–1948 Alexander Stewart Ferguson^[3]
• 1948–1949
  ISBN 978-0-300-00229-4
• 1949–1950
  ISBN 978-0-300-00089-4
• 1950–1951
  ISBN 978-0-300-08471-9
• 1951–1952
  ISBN 978-0-300-13577-0
• 1953–1954
  ISBN 978-0-300-00002-3
• 1954–1955
  ISBN 978-0-300-13651-7
• 1955–1956 Rebecca West The Court and the Castle: Some Treatments of a Recurrent Theme^[3]
• 1956–1957
  ISBN 978-0-317-27547-6
• 1957–1958
  ISBN 978-0-7658-0604-8
• 1958–1959
  ISBN 978-0-300-13653-1
• 1961–1962
  ISBN 978-0-300-02189-9
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• 1961–1962 Norbert Wiener Prolegomena to Theology^[3]
• 1962–1963
  ISBN 978-0-8446-5999-2
• 1963–1964
  ISBN 978-0-300-09973-7
• 1964–1965
  ISBN 978-0-300-13580-0
• 1966–1967 Loren Eiseley^[3]
• 1967–1968
  ISBN 978-0-226-28511-5
• 1968–1969
  ISBN 978-0-300-01646-8
• 1971–1972
  ISBN 978-0-06-063931-0
• 1973–1974 Father
  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
  ISBN 978-0-300-04723-3
• 1978–1979 Adin Steinsaltz^[3]
• 1979–1980
  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
  ISBN 978-0-300-07409-3
• 1996–1997 Rev.
  ISBN 978-0-300-07294-5
• 1998
  ISBN 978-0-300-08378-1
• 1999
  ISBN 978-0-300-10306-9
• 2000
  ISBN 978-0-300-10305-2
• 2001 Francisco J. Ayala From Biology to Ethics: An Evolutionist's View of Human Nature^[3]
• 2003
  ISBN 978-0-300-10669-5
• 2003
  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
  ISBN 978-0-300-14034-7
• 2007
  ISBN 978-0-300-17771-8
• 2008
  ISBN 978-0-300-15179-4
• 2008
  ISBN 978-0-226-49312-1
• 2009
  ISBN 978-0-300-17147-1
• 2010
  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]
• 2019 Karen Barad^[3]

See also

• Silliman Memorial Lectures

References

External links

• Official website
• Terry Lectures playlist on YouTube