Croall Lectures

The lectureship was established in 1872 to increase the religious literature of Scotland. Trustees were comprised of Professors of the Faculty of Divinity in the University of Edinburgh, the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, and Licentiates of the Church of Scotland. Lecturers were originally ministers of the Scottish Presbyterian Churches, or ‘occasionally’ of another non-Presbyterian Reformed Church, and were required to deliver at least six lectures and publish at least 1,000 printed copies of the lectures within a year of the lecture ‘at his own risk and cost’.

Lectures covered subjects within systematic theology: ‘the Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion; the Person, Work, Atonement, Divinity, and Resurrection of Christ; the Person and work of the Holy Spirit; the Doctrine of the Trinity’. Recent lecturers have included Frances Young, Bruce McCormack, Linda Woodhead, and Ian McFarland.

Past lectures