The Gifford Lectureships were established by Adam Lord Gifford (1820–1887), a senator of the College of Justice in Scotland. The purpose of Lord Gifford's bequest to the universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, St. Andrews and Aberdeen was to sponsor lectures to 'promote and diffuse the study of Natural Theology in the widest sense of the term—in other words, the knowledge of God'.
St Andrews Gifford Lecturers
| 2010 | Roger Scruton | The Face of God | ||
| 2007 | Sir Martin Rees | Cosmic Perspectives | ||
| 2002 | Peter van Inwagen | The Problem of Evil | ||
| 2000 | Stanley Hauerwas | The Grain of the Universe | ||
| 1999 | Robert Adams | God and Being | ||
| 1998 | Marilyn Adams | The Coherence of Christology | ||
| 1996 | Michael Dummett | Thought and Reality | ||
| 1995 | Nicholas Wolterstorff | Reid and Epistemology | ||
| 1993 | Roger Penrose | Physical Reality | ||
| 1992 | Arthur Peacocke | Nature, God and Humanity | ||
| 1990 | Hilary Putnam | Renewing Philosophy | ||
| 1989 | Walter Burkert | Tracks of Biology | ||
| 1986 | Antony Flew | The Logic of Mortality | ||
| 1984 | Adolf Grunbaum | Psychoanalysis and Science | ||
| 1983 | John Macquarrie | In Search of Deity | ||
| 1982 | Donald Charlton | New Images of the Natural | ||
| 1980 | Gregory Vlastos | Socrates: Ironist / Philosopher | ||
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| 1889 | Andrew Lang | The Making of Religion |