THE HULSEAN LECTURES 2026:
A History of Suffering and Power
Professor Alec Ryrie FBA (Durham)
A History of Suffering and Power
Wednesdays Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, 5:00pm
Lecture 1: Darwin’s problem - 6th May
Lecture 2: ‘What ought to perish’: ‘laws’ of ‘Nature’- 13th May
Lecture 3: Declines and ‘Falls’ – 20th May
Lecture 4: Augustus’ gift: Christians, power and subversion – 3rd June
Lecture 5: Persons: natural, corporate, electronic, demonic – 10th June
Lecture 6: The prayer of Nagasaki: suffering and faith – 17th June
ALL WELCOME
Previous Lectures
2024 Professor Willie James Jennings (Yale Divinity School) "Unfolding Creation"
2022 Judith Woolfe Professor of Philosophical Theology (University of St Andrews) “The Theological Imagination”
| 2020 | Professor Walter Moberly: 'The God of Christian Scripture' |
| 2017-18 | Professor Robinson: Full Programme |
| 2015-16 | Lord Williams of Oystermouth: 'Christ and the Logic of Creation' - Audio Recordings Available |
| 2013-14 | Professor Hays |
| 2011-12 | Mr MacGregor |
| 2009-10 | Professor McGrath |
| 2007-08 | Professor H. McLeod |
| 2005-06 | Professor E. Davis: 'That you may live long on the fertile land” (Deuteronomy 4:40): Old Testament Interpretation and Ecological Responsibility' |
| 2003-04 | The Lord Bishop of Durham, Dr N. T. Wright: 'Paul: Fresh Perspectives' |
| 2001-02 | Professor J. de Gruchy: 'Reconciliation and Christian Tradition: a Contribution to Public Theology' |
| 1999-00 | Professor P. Sheldrake: 'A Theology of Place and Human Identity' |
| 1997-98 | Professor B. Murdoch: 'The Fall and the Redemption through Literature in the Middle Ages and Beyond' |
| 1995-96 | Dr N. Sagovsky: 'Koinonia: Trinity, Church and Society' |
| 1993-94 | Professor O. O’Donovan |
| 1991-92 | Dr S. Coakley: 'Three-Personed God' |
| 1989-90 | Professor J. Barton: 'Aspects of the Formation of the Christian Bible' |
