Gifford Lectures

To date there have been over fifty series of Gifford Lectures delivered in the University of St Andrews. As well providing the occasion for some of the finest thinkers of their times to set out their ideas on questions of philosophy, theology, ethics, culture and science, and on the connections between [...]

Appreciation of the Scottish contribution to philosophy and theology is particularly marked in North America, especially among those in Reformed traditions, on account of the influence of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scottish thinkers.
The Scottish view of the importance of intellectual reflection on fundamental questions concerning the nature of humanity and its place [...]

Extract from Lord Gifford’s will relating to the establishment of series of lectures in the ancient Scottish universities

TRUST DISPOSITION and SETTLEMENT of the late Adam Gifford, sometime one of the Senators of the College of 21st August 1885.
I having been for many years deeply and firmly convinced that the true knowledge of God, that [...]