Hibbert Lectures, a foundation instituted by the trustees of Robert Hibbert (1770-1849), a West India merchant. For many years the trustees applied the funds mainly to the higher culture of students for the Unitarian ministry, but in 1878 resolved to institute Hibbert Lectures, with a view to capable and really honest treatment of unsettled problems in theology, apart from the interest of any particular church or system. Amongst the lecturers have been Max Müller, Page Renouf, Renan, Rhys Davids, Kuenen, Beard, Reville, Pfeiderer, Rhys, Sayce, and Hatch.
Hibbert Lectures
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