THE STANTON LECTURES 2025
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Ways of Oneness
Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad FBA
Distinguished Professor of Comparative Philosophy and Religion
Lancaster University
Faculty of Divinity, Runcie Room 5 – 6:30pm
Monday 24 February, Tuesday 25 February
Lectures 1-2. Overcoming difference
World, self and what is real: the contrasting responses of Śaṅkara and Zhuangzi
Thursday 27 February, Monday 3 March
Lectures 3-4. Monism
God and World: Complementary perspectives from Abhinava and Spinoza
Tuesday 4 March, Thursday 6 March
Lectures 5-6. Oneness with manyness
Self and World in God: Comparing Rāmānuja and Ibn al-‘Arabi
All welcome
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The Stanton Lectures are dedicated to the philosophy of religion. Established by Professor Vincent Stanton (1846–1924), the first series was delivered in the Faculty of Divinity in 1904 by Vernon Storr. Since then the lectureship has achieved international renown in its field.
For further information on Professor Vincent Stanton see:
Ely Professors | Faculty of Divinity (cam.ac.uk)
Previous holders of the Stanton lecturership
2023-24: David Bentley Hart
2022-23: Mark Johnston
2021-22: Geraldine Heng
2020-21: Olivier Boulnois
2019-20: John Hare
2018-19: Eleonore Stump
2017-18: Joel Robbins
2016-17: Simon Oliver
2015-16: No lectures
2014-15: Peter Ochs,
2013-14: Stephen Mulhall
2012-13: Paul Griffiths,
2011-12: Roger Scruton
2010-11: John Milbank
2009-10: Jeffrie Murphy
2008-09: Tamra Wright
2007-08: Robin Le Poidevin
2006-07: John Beer
2005-06: Gordon Graham
2004-05: Alvin Plantinga
2003-04: John Cottingham
2002-03: John Cottingham
2001-02: John Haldane
2000-01: John Haldane
1999-00: John Haldane
1998-99: Janet Soskice
1997-98: Janet Soskice
1996-97: Roger Trigg
1995-96: Paul Helm
1994-95: Fergus Kerr
1991: John Clayton
1990: Raymond Plant
1989: Raymond Plant
1986: Stephen Clark
1983: Elizabeth Anscombe
1980: Anthony Kenny
1977: Mary Hesse
1974: John Hick
1971: Peter Geach
1968: Don Cupitt
1965: Ronald Hepburn
1962: John Bambrough
1959: Basil Mitchell
1956: Donald MacKinnon
1953: George Woods
1950: Dorothy Emmet
1947: Ian Ramsey
1937: Herbert Farmer
1934: John Smith
1931: Alan Bouquet
1928: John Oman
1925: Alban Widgery
1922: Alban Widgery
1919: John Oman
1913: John Oman
1910: Frederick Tennant
1907: Frederick Tennant
1904: Vernon Storr
