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The '''Boyle Lectures''' are named after [[Robert Boyle]], a prominent [[natural philosopher]] of the 17th century and son of [[Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork]]. Under the terms of his Will, Robert Boyle endowed a series of lectures or sermons (originally eight each year) which were to consider the relationship between Christianity and the new natural philosophy (today's 'science') then emerging in European society. Since 2004, this prestigious Lectures series has been organized, with the assistance of Board of the Boyle Lectures, by the International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR) and has been held at one of its original locations, the Wren church of St Mary-le-Bow on Cheapside in the City of London.

== History ==

=== Early lectures ===
The first such lecture was given in 1692 by [[Richard Bentley]], to whom [[Isaac Newton]] had written:
{{blockquote|Sir, When I wrote my Treatise about our System, I had an Eye upon such Principles as might work with considering Men, for the Belief of a Deity; nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that Purpose.<ref>[http://www.bartleby.com/219/1304.html Scholars and Antiquaries (''The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21)'')]</ref><ref>"Notes on the Religious Orientation of Scientists" by [[Gerald Holton]] in ''Science Ponders Religion'', [[Harlow Shapley]], [[Appleton-Century-Crofts]], 1960, p. 59</ref>}}

The early lecturers were specifically charged to prove the truth of the [[Christianity|Christian]] religion against Jews, Muslims and non-believers, without considering any controversies or differences that might exist between different Christian groups.

{{Blockquote|text="To preach eight sermons in the year, for proving the Christian religion against notorious infidels, viz. Atheists, Deists, Pagans, Jews, Mahometans, not descending to any controversies that are among Christians themselves."|author=Richard Bentley|title=|source=The Folly and Unreasonableness of Atheism; The Epistle Dedicatory.}}

A clergyman was to be appointed to the lectureship for a term of no more than three years by [[Thomas Tenison]] (later [[Archbishop of Canterbury]]) and three other nominated trustees.<ref name="newton" /> Boyle had assigned the rent from his house in Crooked Lane to support the lectures but the income from that source soon disappeared.  Archbishop Tenison then arranged that the rental income from a farm in the parish of Brill in Buckinghamshire was to be paid at the rate of £12.10.00 per quarter to the lecturer.<ref>{{1728}}</ref>

=== Revival ===
The Boyle Lectures were revived in 2004 at the famous [[Christopher Wren|Wren]] church of [[St Mary-le-Bow]] in the City of London by Dr Michael Byrne, a Fellow of Birkbeck College London.  Financial support for the lectures has been provided by a number of patrons, principally the [[Worshipful Company of Grocers]] and the [[Worshipful Company of Mercers]] in the city.  A book to mark the 10th anniversary of the revived series was edited by Russell Re Manning and Michael Byrne and published by SCM Press in 2013 as 'Science and Religion in the Twenty-First Century: The Boyle Lectures 2004-2013'.

Having convened the first 15 lectures in the new series, Michael Byrne stepped down as Convenor in 2018.  Management of the lecture then passed to the International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR) in cooperation with the Boyle Lectures Board of Trustees.  Members of the board include [[John Boyle, 15th Earl of Cork]]; the Hon. Robert Boyle; [[Julian Tregoning]], Past Master of the [[Worshipful Company of Grocers|Grocers' Company]]; Xenia Dennan, Past Master of the [[Worshipful Company of Mercers|Mercers Company]]; the Revd George R. Bush, Rector of St Mary-le-Bow; Emeritus Professor John Hedley Brooke; Dr Russell Re Manning; Professor Fraser Watts; and the Revd Michael Reiss, former President of the ISSR.

== Chronological list ==
{{Incomplete list|date=October 2008}}

; 17th century
* 1692 – ''A Confutation of Atheism'', by [[Richard Bentley]]<ref name= divinitycatal>{{cite book| title = J. H. Parker's Divinity Catalogue | year = 1837 | location = Oxford | page = 39 | isbn = 0-524-00298-3| last1 = (Firm) | first1 = John Henry Parker }} (titles might be trimmed)</ref><ref>{{cite book| last = Bentley | first = Richard | title= Eight Boyle Lectures on Atheism | url = https://archive.org/details/eightboylelectur0000bent | url-access = registration | publisher = Garland | year = 1976 | isbn = 978-0-8240-1752-1 | location = New York}}</ref><ref>Separate first editions of lectures #2–8: {{cite book | last = Bentley | first = Richard | title = Matter and Motion Cannot Think, Or A Confutation of Atheism from the Faculties of the Soul | url = http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/printedbooksNew/index.cfm?textID=bentley1&PagePosition=1 | publisher = T. Parkhurst and H. Mortlock | year = 1692 | location = London | access-date = 2008-09-16 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20050510162556/http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/printedbooksNew/index.cfm?textID=bentley1&PagePosition=1 | archive-date = 2005-05-10 }} {{cite book | title = A Confutation of Atheism from the Structure and Origin of Humane Bodies | url = http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sCETI/printedbooksNew/index.cfm?TextID=bentley2&PagePosition=1 | location = London | year = 1692 | access-date = 2008-09-16 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070612042838/http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/printedbooksNew/index.cfm?textID=bentley2&PagePosition=1 | archive-date = 2007-06-12 }} {{cite book | title = A Confutation of Atheism from the Origin and Frame of the World | url = http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/printedbooksNew/index.cfm?textID=bentley3&PagePosition=1 | location = London | year = 1693 | access-date = 2008-09-16 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070612043055/http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/printedbooksNew/index.cfm?textID=bentley3&PagePosition=1 | archive-date = 2007-06-12 }}

The eight lectures, from 1735 edition, reprinted {{cite book | editor = Alexander Dyce | editor-link = Alexander Dyce | location = London | publisher = Francis Macpherson | year = 1838 | title = The Works of Richard Bentley, Vol. 3 | url = https://archive.org/details/worksbentley03bentuoft }}

First full edition, in [http://www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/catalogue/viewcat.php?id=THEM00242 html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110524113822/http://www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/catalogue/viewcat.php?id=THEM00242 |date=2011-05-24 }}</ref>
* 1693-94 - ''A Demonstration of the Messias, in which the Truth of the Christian Religion is proved, especially against the Jews'', by [[Richard Kidder]]<ref name=divinitycatal /><ref name=burnet>{{cite book | title = Boyle Lectures (1692–1732): A Defence of Natural and Revealed Religion, being an Abridgement of the Sermons preached at the Lectures founded by Robert Boyle. Philosophy and Christian Thought in Britain 1700–1900 | editor = Burnet, Gilbert | isbn = 978-1-85506-813-1 | location = Bristol | publisher = Thoemmes | year = 2000}}</ref><ref name=queenscatal>{{cite book| title = A Catalogue of the Library of the College of St. Margaret and St. Bernard: Commonly Called Queen's College, in the University of Cambridge | url = https://archive.org/details/acataloguelibra18librgoog | first = Thomas Hartwell | last = Horne | author-link = Thomas Hartwell Horne | publisher = S. and R. Bentley | location = London | year = 1827 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/acataloguelibra18librgoog/page/n362 301]–304}}</ref>
* 1694 - [Title Unknown], by Richard Bentley<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/lifeofrichardben01monk|title=The life of Richard Bentley, with an account of his writings and anecdotes of many distinguished characters during the period in which he flourished|last=Monk|first=James Henry|date=1833|publisher=London : Printed for J. G. & F. Rivington|others=University of California Libraries}}</ref>
* 1695 - ''The Possibility, Expediency and Necessity of Divine Revelation'', by [[John Williams (Bishop of Chichester)|John Williams]]<ref name=divinitycatal /><ref name=burnet/><ref name=queenscatal /><ref>Williams, J., ''Five Sermons at the Boyle Lectures''</ref><ref>{{Cite book| publisher = Printed for Ric. Chitwell ... and Tho. Cockerill ...| last = Williams| first = John| title = [A collection of eight sermons preached in defense of the Christian religion, called the "Boyle lectures", 1694-1696].| location = London| year = 1695 | oclc = 26374055}}</ref>
* 1696 - ''The Perfection of the Evangelical Revelation'', by John Williams
* 1697 - ''The Certainty of the Christian Revelation and the Necessity of believing it, established'', by [[Francis Gastrell]] ([[Bishop of Chester]])<ref name=divinitycatal /><ref name=burnet/><ref name=queenscatal />
* 1698 - ''The Atheistical Objections against the Being of God and His Attributes fairly considered and fully refuted'', by [[John Harris (writer)|John Harris]]<ref name=divinitycatal /><ref name=burnet/><ref>{{cite web | url = https://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-5134:1 | archive-url = https://archive.today/20120709095807/http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-5134:1 | archive-date = 2012-07-09 | title = Aliens and Atheists: The Plurality of Worlds and Natural Theology in Seventeenth-Century England | last = Oliver | first = Ryan | date = December 2007 | page = 66 | access-date = 2008-09-09 }}</ref><ref>{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Harris, John |volume= 04 | page = 20; see lines six and seven|quote=In 1698 he was entrusted with the delivery of the seventh series of the Boyle lectures—Atheistical Objections against the Being of God and His Attributes fairly considered and fully refuted.}}</ref>
* 1699 - ''The Credibility of the Christian Revelation, from its intrinsick Evidence'', by [[Samuel Bradford]] ([[Bishop of Rochester]])<ref name=divinitycatal /><ref name=queenscatal /><ref name=lebow>{{cite web| url=http://www.stmarylebow.co.uk/?Boyle_Lecture | title=St Mary le Bow Church, London - Boyle Lectures | access-date=2008-09-04}}</ref>
* 1700 - ''The Sufficiency of a Standing Revelation'', by [[Offspring Blackall]]<ref name=divinitycatal /><ref name=burnet/><ref name=queenscatal />

; 18th century
* 1701–02 - ''Truth and Excellency of the Christian Religion'', by [[George Stanhope]]<ref name=divinitycatal /><ref name=burnet/>
* 1703 - Adams
* 1704 - ''A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God'', by [[Samuel Clarke]]<ref name=burnet/><ref>{{cite book| title =A Discourse Concerning the Being and Attributes of God, the Obligations of Natural Religion, and the Truth and Certainty of the Christian Revelation, in opposition to Hobbes, Spinoza, the author of the Oracles of Reason, and other Deniers of Natural and Revealed Religion | last = Clarke | first = Samuel | author-link = Samuel Clarke | url = https://archive.org/details/discourseconcern1725clar | access-date = 2008-09-06 | edition = 1823}}</ref><!--''On the Attributes, and on Natural and Revealed Religion''<ref name=divinitycatal />--><ref name=ebsclarke>{{cite EB1911|wstitle= Clarke, Samuel |volume= 06 | pages = 445&ndash;447; see third para, line two|quote= As Boyle lecturer, he dealt in 1704 with the Being and Attributes of God, and in 1705 with the Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion.}}</ref>
* 1705 - ''The Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion'', by Samuel Clarke<ref name=ebsclarke />
* 1706 - ''Arguments to Prove the Being of a God'', by John Hancock<ref name=divinitycatal /><ref name=burnet/><ref name=queenscatal />
* 1707 - ''The Accomplishment of Scripture Prophecies'', by [[William Whiston]]<ref name=divinitycatal /><ref name=burnet/><ref name=queenscatal />
* 1708 - ''The Wisdom of God in the Redemption of Man, as delivered in the Holy Scriptures, vindicated from the chief Objections of Modern Infidels'', by John Turner<ref name=divinitycatal /><ref name=burnet/><ref name=queenscatal />
* 1709 - ''Religion no Matter of Shame'', by [[Lilly Butler]]<ref name=divinitycatal /><ref name=burnet/>
* 1710 - ''The Divine Original and Excellence of the Christian Religion'', by [[Josiah Woodward]]<ref name=divinitycatal /><ref name=burnet/><ref name=queenscatal />
* 1711–12 - ''[https://archive.org/details/physicotheologyo00derh Physico-Theology, or a Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God from his Works of Creation]'', by [[William Derham]]<ref name=divinitycatal /><ref name=burnet/><ref name=queenscatal /><ref>{{cite book | title = Physico-Theology, or a Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God from his Works of Creation | url = https://archive.org/details/physicotheologyo00derh | last = Derham | first = William | author-link = William Derham | location = London | publisher = W. and J. Innys | year = 1720| edition = fifth | access-date = 2008-11-02 | isbn = 0-405-10383-2}}</ref>
* 1713–14 - ''On the Exercise of Private Judgment, or Free-Thinking'', by [[Benjamin Ibbot]]<ref name=divinitycatal /><ref name=burnet/><ref name=queenscatal />
* 1717–18 - ''Natural Obligations to Believe the Principles of Religion and Divine Revelation'', by [[John Leng (bishop)|John Leng]]<ref name=divinitycatal /><ref name=burnet/><ref name=queenscatal />
* 1719 - ''[https://archive.org/details/enquiryintocause00clar An Enquiry into the Cause and Origin of Evil]'', by [[John Clarke (dean of Salisbury)|John Clarke]]<ref name=divinitycatal /><ref name=burnet/><ref>{{cite book| last = Clarke | first = John | year = 1720 | location = London | publisher = James Knapton | title = An Enquiry into the Cause and Origin of Evil | url = https://archive.org/details/enquiryintocause00clar | access-date = 2008-09-18}}</ref>
* 1720 - ''On the Origin of Evil'', by John Clarke<ref>http://www.ilab.org/db/detail.php?booknr=350617182{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* 1721 - ''The pretended Difficulties in Natural or Revealed Religion, no Excuse for Infidelity'', by [[Robert Gurdon]]<!--Brampton?--><ref name=burnet/><ref name=queenscatal />
* 1724–25 - ''A Demonstration of True Religion, in a Chain of Consequences from certain and undeniable Principles'', by [[Thomas Burnett (died 1750)|Thomas Burnett]]<ref name=divinitycatal /><ref name=burnet/><ref name=queenscatal /><ref>{{cite book| last = Burnett | first = Thomas | year = 1726 | location = London | publisher = Arthur Betyesworth | title = A Demonstration of True Religion, in a Chain of Consequences from certain and undeniable Principles; wherein the Necessity and Certainty of Natural and Revealed Religion, with the Nature and Reason of both are explained, and in particular the Authority of the Christian Revelation is established, not only from the Natures, and Reasons of things, but also from the Relation it bears to the Scriptures of the Old Testament }} [https://archive.org/details/demonstrationoft01burn Vol. 1]; [https://archive.org/details/demonstrationoft02burn Vol. 2]</ref>
* 1725–28 - [[John Denne]]<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Denne, John|volume=14}}</ref>
* 1730–32 - ''The Gradual Revelation of the Gospel from the time of Man's Apostacy'', by [[William Berriman]]<ref name=divinitycatal /><ref name=burnet/><ref name=queenscatal />
* 1736–38 - ''[https://archive.org/details/historyoftheacts00biscuoft The History of the Acts of the Holy Apostles, confirmed from other Authors, and considered as full Evidence for the Truth of Christianity]'', by [[Richard Biscoe]]<ref name=divinitycatal /><ref>{{cite book | title = The History of the Acts of the Holy Apostles, confirmed from other Authors, and considered as full Evidence for the Truth of Christianity | url = https://archive.org/details/historyoftheacts00biscuoft | last = Biscoe | first = Richard | location = Oxford | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 1840 | access-date = 2008-11-02 | isbn = 0-548-70278-0}}</ref>
* 1739–41 - [[Leonard Twells]]<ref name=divinitycatal /><ref name=queenscatal /><ref>{{cite book| title = Twenty-four Sermons Preach'd at the Parish Church of St. Mary Le Bow: London, in the Years 1739, 1740, 1741, at the Lecture Founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq; and Eight Sermons Preach'd at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, in the Years 1738 and 1739, at the Lecture Founded by the Honoured Lady Moyer. To which are Added, A Visitation Sermon, A Sermon before the Religious Societies and a Charity Sermon | url = https://archive.org/details/twentyfoursermon01twel | location = London | year = 1743 | last = Twells | first = Leonard}}, [https://archive.org/details/twentyfoursermon01twel Vol. 1]; [https://archive.org/details/twentyfoursermon02twel Vol. 2]</ref>
* 1747–49 - ''Christianity justified upon the Scripture Foundation; being a Summery View of the Controversy between Christians and Deists'', by [[Henry Stebbing]]<ref name=divinitycatal /><ref name = queenscatal /><ref>{{cite book| title =Christianity justified upon the Scripture Foundation; being a Summery View of the Controversy between Christians and Deists | last = Stebbing | first = Henry | url = https://archive.org/details/christianityjust00steb | access-date = 2008-11-02}}</ref>
* 1750–52 - [[John Jortin]]<ref name = queenscatal /><!--eb: 1749-->
* 1756–58 - [[Thomas Newton]]<ref name=newton>{{cite book|last=Newton|first=Thomas|title=Dissertations on the prophecies: which have remarkably been fulfilled and at this time are fulfilling in the world|volume=1|year=1808|place=Berwick|publisher=Printed by W. Gracie for J. Rennison [etc.]|url=https://archive.org/details/dissertationson01newt|access-date=1 November 2010|page=[https://archive.org/details/dissertationson01newt/page/257 257]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title = The Third Force in Seventeenth-century Thought | chapter = Prognostics from Nostradamus to Hume | page = 299 | isbn = 978-90-04-09324-9 | publisher = BRILL | year = 1992 | last = Popkin | first = Richard Henry | author-link = Richard Popkin}}</ref>
* 1759–62 - [[Charles Moss (bishop of Bath and Wells)|Charles Moss]]<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle= Moss, Charles |volume= 39 |last= Venables |first= Edmund |author-link= Edmund Venables |pages= 181-182 |year= |short=1}}</ref>
* 1763 - ''A Discourse upon the Being of God against Atheists'', by [[Ralph Heathcote]]<ref name = queenscatal />
* 1766–68 - ''The Evidence of Christianity deduced from Facts and the Testimony of Senses throughout all Ages of the Church to the present time'', by [[William Worthington (priest)|William Worthington]]<ref name=divinitycatal /><ref name=queenscatal />
* 1769–71 - ''The Intent and Propriety of the Scripture Miracles considered and explained'', by [[Henry Owen]]<ref name=divinitycatal /><ref name=queenscatal /><ref>{{cite book|title=The Intent and Propriety of the Scripture Miracles considered and explained|last=Owen|first=Henry|year=1773|isbn=1-104-31163-1|location=London|author-link=Henry Owen}}<!--| access-date = 2008-11-02--> [[iarchive:intentproprietyo01owen|Vol. 1]]; [[iarchive:intentproprietyo02owen|Vol. 2]]</ref>
* 1778–80 - ''[https://archive.org/details/argumentforchris00will An Argument for the Christian Religion, drawn from a Comparison of Revelation with the Natural Operations of the Mind]'', by James Williamson<ref name=divinitycatal /><ref name=queenscatal /><ref>{{cite book| title = An Argument for the Christian Religion, drawn from a Comparison of Revelation with the Natural Operations of the Mind | last = Williamson | first = James | url = https://archive.org/details/argumentforchris00will | year = 1783 | publisher = P. Elmsly | access-date = 2008-11-03}}</ref>

; 19th century
* 1802–05 - ''An Historical View of the Rise and Progress of Infidelity, with a Refutation of its Principles and Reasonings'', by [[William Van Mildert]]<ref name=hunt>{{cite book| last = Hunt | first = John | author-link= John Hunt (theologian) | title = Religious Thought in England in the Nineteenth Century | pages = 38, 338–342 | isbn = 978-1-4212-6545-2| date = January 1999 | publisher = Adegi Graphics LLC }}</ref>
* 1812 - William Van Mildert<ref name=lebow/>
* 1814 - [[Frederick Nolan (theologian)|Frederick Nolan]]
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* 1821 - ''The Connection of Christianity with Human Happiness'', by [[William Harness]]<ref name=divinitycatal /><ref name=hunt />
* 1845–46 - ''The Religions of the World; and Their Relations to Christianity Considered in Eight Lectures'' - [[Frederick Denison Maurice]]
* 1854 - [[Christopher Wordsworth]]<ref name=hunt />
* 1857 - ''Eight discourses on the miracles'', by [[William Gilson Humphry]]<ref>{{Cite book| publisher = John W. Parker| last = Humphry| first = William| title = Eight discourses on the miracles : preached in the parish church of St. Martin in the Fields in the year 1857: at the lecture founded by the Hon. Robert Boyle|location = London| year = 1858| oclc = 52633386}}</ref>
* 1861 - ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=hW8rAAAAYAAJ The Bible and its Critics: an Enquiry into the Objective Reality of Revealed Truths]'', by [[Edward Garbett]]<ref name=hunt /><ref>{{cite journal | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=COIRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA696 | pages = 696–710 | journal = The Christian Observer | volume = 60 |date=September 1861 | place = London | title=The Christian observer | publisher=Hatchard and Co.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=hW8rAAAAYAAJ | last = Garbett | first = Edward | author-link = Edward Garbett | location = London | publisher = Seeley and Griffiths | year = 1861 | title = The Bible and its critics: an enquiry into the objective reality of revealed truths ___ being the Boyle lectures for MDCCCLXI| isbn = 978-0-7905-0892-4 }}</ref>
* 1862 - ''The Conflict between Science and Infidelity'', by Edward Garbett<ref name=hunt />
* 1863 - ''The Divine Plan of Revelation'', by Edward Garbett<ref name=hunt />
* 1864 - ''The conversion of the Roman empire'', by [[Charles Merivale]]<ref name=hunt />
* 1865 - ''The Conversion of the Northern Nations'', by [[Charles Merivale]]<ref name=hunt />
* 1866–67 - ''Christ and Christendom'', by [[Edward Hayes Plumptre]]<ref>[http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/encyc09.html?term=Plumptre,%20Edward%20Hayes New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Vol. I: Aachen - Basilians | Christian Classics Ethereal Library]  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070212144854/http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/encyc09.html?term=Plumptre%2C%20Edward%20Hayes |date=February 12, 2007  }}</ref>
* 1868 - ''[https://archive.org/details/witnessoldtesta00leatgoog The Witness of the Old Testament to Christ]'', by [[Stanley Leathes]]<ref name=hunt/><ref>{{cite book| title =The Witness of the Old Testament to Christ | last = Leathes | first = Stanley | author-link = Stanley Leathes | url = https://archive.org/details/witnessoldtesta00leatgoog | access-date = 2009-10-04 | year = 1868 | place = London, Oxford and Cambridge | publisher = Rivingtons}}</ref>
* 1869 - ''[https://archive.org/details/witnessofstpault00leat The Witness of St. Paul to Christ]'', by Stanley Leathes<ref name=hunt/><ref>{{cite book| title =The Witness of St. Paul to Christ | last = Leathes | first = Stanley | author-link = Stanley Leathes | url = https://archive.org/details/witnessofstpault00leat | access-date = 2009-10-04 | year = 1869 | place = London, Oxford and Cambridge | publisher = Rivingtons| isbn =0-8370-9713-4}}</ref>
* 1870 - ''The Witness of St. John to Christ'', by Stanley Leathes<ref name=hunt/><ref>{{cite book| title =The Witness of St. John to Christ | last = Leathes | first = Stanley | author-link = Stanley Leathes | url = https://archive.org/details/witnessofstjohnt00leat | access-date = 2009-10-04 | year = 1870 | place = London, Oxford and Cambridge | publisher = Rivingtons| isbn =0-8370-5662-4}}</ref>
* 1871–72 - ''Moral Difficulties Connected with the Bible'', by [[James Augustus Hessey]]<ref name=hunt />
* 1874–75 - ''[https://archive.org/details/christianitymora00waceuoft Christianity and Morality Or the Correspondence of the Gospel with the Moral Nature of Man]'', by [[Henry Wace (Anglican priest)|Henry Wace]]<ref>{{cite book| url = https://archive.org/details/christianitymora00waceuoft | title = Christianity and Morality Or the Correspondence of the Gospel with the Moral Nature of Man | last = Wace | first = Henry | author-link = Henry Wace (Anglican priest) | publisher = Pickering | location = London | year = 1882 | edition = Fifth| isbn = 0-7905-0410-3}}</ref>
* 1876 - ''What is Natural Theology?'', by [[Alfred Barry]]<ref name=ccel-barry>{{cite web|url=http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/encyc01.html?term=Barry,+Alfred|title=New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Vol. I: Aachen - Basilians - Christian Classics Ethereal Library|website=www.ccel.org}}</ref>
* 1877–78 - ''The Manifold Witness for Christ'', by [[Alfred Barry]]<ref name=ccel-barry/>
* 1879–80 - ''[https://archive.org/details/evidentialvalue01maclgoog The Evidential Value of the Holy Eucharist]'', by [[George Frederick Maclear]]<ref name=hunt /><ref>{{cite book | title = The Evidential Value of the Holy Eucharist | url = https://archive.org/details/evidentialvalue01maclgoog | last = Maclear | first = George Frederick | location = London | publisher = Macmillan and Co | year = 1883 | access-date = 2008-11-02}}</ref>
* 1884 - ''[https://archive.org/stream/scientificobstac00curt The Scientific Obstacles to Christian Belief]'', by [[George Herbert Curteis]]<ref name=hunt /><ref>{{cite book | title = The Scientific Obstacles to Christian Belief | url = https://archive.org/stream/scientificobstac00curt | last = Curteis | first = George Herbert | location = London | publisher = Macmillan and Co | year = 1885 | access-date = 2008-11-02}}</ref>
* 1890 - ''[http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008623990 Old Truths in Modern Lights]'' (''The Present Conflict of Science and Theology''), by [[Thomas George Bonney|T. G. Bonney]]<ref name=hunt /><ref>{{cite book | title = Old Truths in Modern Lights, with Other Sermons | url = http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008623990 | last = Bonney | first = T. G. | author-link = Thomas George Bonney | location = New York| publisher = James Pott and Co | year = 1891 | isbn = 0-8370-2412-9}}</ref>
* 1891 - ''[https://archive.org/details/christiandoctri01bonngoog Christian Doctrines and Modern Thought]'', by T. G. Bonney<ref>{{cite book | title = Christian Doctrines and Modern Thought | url = https://archive.org/details/christiandoctri01bonngoog | last = Bonney | first = T. G. | author-link = Thomas George Bonney | location = London | publisher = Longmans, Green and Co | year = 1892}}</ref>
* 1893 - ''Ascent of Faith or the Grounds of Certainty in Science and Religion'', by [[Alexander James Harrison]]<ref name=hunt />
* 1895 - ''[https://archive.org/details/thegospelofexper00newbuoft The Gospel of Experience Or the Witness of Human Life to the Truth of Revelation]'', by [[W. C. E. Newbolt]]<ref>{{cite book| last = Newbolt | first = William Charles Edmund | title = The Gospel of Experience Or the Witness of Human Life to the Truth of Revelation | url = https://archive.org/details/thegospelofexper00newbuoft | year = 1896 | publisher = Longmans, Green & Co. | location = London, New York and Bombay}}</ref>
* 1897 - [[William Benham (priest)|William Benham]]<ref>{{cite DNB12|wstitle=Benham, William|volume=1}}</ref>

; 20th century
* 1903–05 - ''[https://archive.org/details/thetestimonyofsx00knowuoft The Testimony of St. Paul to Christ Viewed in Some of its Aspects]'', by [[Richard John Knowling]]<ref>{{cite book| last = Knowling | first = Richard John | url = https://archive.org/details/thetestimonyofsx00knowuoft | title = The Testimony of St. Paul to Christ Viewed in Some of its Aspects | year = 1905 | location = London | publisher = Hodder and Stoughton}}</ref><ref>[http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/encyc06/Page_360.html Schaff, P. & Herzog J. J., ''New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge'', Volume VI, Innocents - Liudger, pp. 360–61 | Christian Classics Ethereal Library]</ref>
* 1935–36 - ''God, Creation and Revelation'', by [[Allen John MacDonald]]<ref>{{Cite book| publisher = John Heritage the Unicorn Press| last = Macdonald| first = A| title = God, creation and revelation| location = London| year = 1938 | oclc = 21108337}}</ref>
* 1965 - ''[https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1338748W/The_Christian_universe The Christian Universe]'', by [[Eric Lionel Mascall|Eric Mascall]]

; 21st century
* 2004 - ''[http://www.stmarylebow.co.uk/?Boyle_Lecture:2004 Darwin, Design, and the Promise of Nature]'', by [[John F. Haught]],<ref name=lebow/> with a response by Richard Chartres
* 2005 - ''[http://www.stmarylebow.co.uk/?Boyle_Lecture:2005 Darwin's Compass: How Evolution Discovers the Song of Creation]'', by [[Simon Conway Morris]],<ref name=lebow/> with a response by Keith Ward
* 2006 - ''[http://www.stmarylebow.co.uk/?Boyle_Lecture:2006 The Emergence of Spirit: From Complexity to Anthropology to Theology]'', by [[Philip Clayton (philosopher)|Philip Clayton]], with a response by [[Niels Gregersen]]<ref name=lebow/>
* 2007 - [https://web.archive.org/web/20071003143649/http://www.gresham.ac.uk/event.asp?PageId=45&EventId=583 ''Cosmology of Ultimate Concern''], by [[John D Barrow]], with a response by [[Martin Rees]]
* 2008 - [https://web.archive.org/web/20080514013413/http://www.gresham.ac.uk/event.asp?PageId=45&EventId=721 ''Psychologising and Neurologising about Religion: Facts, Fallacies and the Future''], by [[Malcolm Jeeves]], with a response by Fraser Watts
* 2009 - [https://web.archive.org/web/20090303072854/http://www.gresham.ac.uk/event.asp?PageId=45&EventId=829 ''Misusing Darwin: The Materialist Conspiracy in Evolutionary Biology''], by [[Keith Ward]], with a response by John Polkinghorne
* 2010 - [https://web.archive.org/web/20101118081144/http://gresham.ac.uk/event.asp?PageId=45&EventId=1059 ''The Legacy of Robert Boyle - Then and Now''], by [[John Hedley Brooke]], with a response by [[Geoffrey Cantor (academic)|Geoffrey Cantor]]
* 2011 - [http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/christ-and-evolution-a-drama-of-wisdom ''Is the World Unfinished? On Interactions between Science and Theology''], by [[Jürgen Moltmann]], with a response by [[Alan Torrance]]
* 2012 - [http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/christ-and-evolution-a-drama-of-wisdom ''Christ and Evolution: A Drama of Wisdom''], by [[Celia Deane-Drummond]], with a response by Fount LeRon Shults
* 2013 - [http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/science-and-religion-in-dialogue ''Science and Religion in Dialogue''], by [[John Polkinghorne]], with a response by Richard Chartres
* 2014 - [http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/new-atheism-new-apologetics-the-use-of-science-in-christian-apologetics ''New Atheism – New Apologetics: The Use of Science in Recent Christian Apologetic Writings''], by [[Alister McGrath]], with a response by [[Richard Harries]]
* 2015 - [http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/natural-theology-reconsidered-again ''Natural Theology Revisited (Again)''], by [[Russell Re Manning]], with a response by [[Louise Hickman]]
* 2016 - ''Natural Theology in a Changed Key? Evolution, Cooperation, and the God Question'', by [[Sarah Coakley]], with a response by [[Christopher Insole]]
* 2017 - ''Theological Influences in Scientific Research Programmes: Natural Theology 'in Reverse''', by [[Robert J. Russell]], with a response by [[Rowan Williams]]
* 2018 - ''Apocalypses Now: Modern Science and Biblical Miracles'', by [[Mark Harris (academic)|Mark Harris]], with a response by [[John Hedley Brooke]]
*2019 - ''Science, Religion and Ethics'', by [[Michael Reiss]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE2XQiGm4_g|title=The Boyle Lecture 2019|website=[[YouTube]]}}</ref>
*2020 - ''Mental Health and the Gospel'', by Christopher Cook, with a response by Fraser Watts<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRD33nmZyQw&t=2s|title = The Boyle Lecture 2020|website = [[YouTube]]}}</ref>
*2021 - ''The Rediscovery of Contemplation Through Science'', by [[Tom McLeish]], with a response by [[Rowan Williams]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khYs4qJiS-Y&t=558s|title = ISSR 2021 Boyle Lecture by Prof Tom McLeish and Response by Rt Revd & Rt Hon Lord Rowan Williams|website = [[YouTube]]}}</ref>
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* 2019 - ''Science, Religion and Ethics'', by Michael J. Reiss, with a response by Janet Soskice
* 2020 - ''Mental Health and the Gospel'', by Christopher C. H. Cook, with a response by Fraser Watts
* 2021 - ''The Rediscovery of Contemplation through Science'', by Tom McLeish, with a response by Rowan Williams
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* 2022 - "God and a World of Natural Evil: Theology and Science in Hard Conversation" by Prof Christopher Southgate, with a response by Andrew Davidson.
* 2023 - “Attending to Attention” by The Rt Revd and Rt Hon the Lord (Rowan) Williams of Oystermouth, with response from Dr John Teasdale
* 2024 - “Is religion natural?” by The Very Revd Professor David Fergusson, OBE, FRSE, FBA, Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, Dean of the Chapel Royal in Scotland and Dean of the Order of the Thistle, with response from Professor Fiona Ellis, Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Centre for Practical Philosophy, Theology, and Religion at the University of Roehampton, London.

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20201030230727/https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/encyc02.html?term=Boyle,%20Robert,%20and%20the%20Boyle%20Lectures Boyle, Robert, and the Boyle Lectures], in [[Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge|The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge]], Vol. II ([[Christian Classics Ethereal Library|CCEL]])

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