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{{Short description|Lectureship at Yale University}}
The '''Dwight H. Terry Lectureship''', also known as the '''Terry Lectures''', was established at [[Organization:Yale University|Yale University]] in 1905<ref name="yale">{{Cite web |url=http://www.yale.edu/terrylecture/ |title=Yale University - "Dwight H. Terry Lectureship" |access-date=2007-10-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071109080946/http://www.yale.edu/terrylecture/ |archive-date=2007-11-09 |url-status=dead }}</ref> by a gift from Dwight H. Terry of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Its purpose is to engage both scholars and the public in a consideration of religion from a humanitarian point of view, in the light of modern science and philosophy.  The subject matter has historically been similar to that of the Gifford Lectures in Scotland, and several lecturers have participated in both series.

==Establishment==
The 1905 deed of gift establishing the lectureship states:

{{cquote|The object of this foundation is not the promotion of scientific investigation and discovery, but rather the assimilation and interpretation of that which has been or shall be hereafter discovered, and its application to human welfare, especially by the building of the truths of science and philosophy into the structure of a broadened and purified religion. The founder believes that such a religion will greatly stimulate intelligent effort for the improvement of human conditions and the advancement of the race in strength and excellence of character. To this end it is desired that a series of lectures be given by men eminent in their respective departments, on ethics, the history of civilization and religion, biblical research, all sciences and branches of knowledge which have an important bearing on the subject, all the great laws of nature, especially of evolution ... also such interpretations of literature and sociology as are in accord with the spirit of this foundation, to the end that the Christian spirit may be nurtured in the fullest light of the world’s knowledge and that mankind may be helped to attain its highest possible welfare and happiness upon this earth.<ref name="yup">[http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/SeriesPage.asp?Series=81 Yale University Press - "The Terry Lectures Series"]</ref>}}

Although commitment to the gift was made in 1905 it did not mature until 1923, which is when the first Terry lectures were held.

==Lecture format==
The lectures are free and open to the public.  A single installment generally consists of four lectures by the same visiting scholar, given over the course of a month or less.  Many of the lectures have been edited into books published by the Yale University Press, and remain in print to this day (see below). From 1999 to 2009 the lectures were recorded and posted on the Terry Lectures website as audio and/or video streams. Starting in 2008, recordings of the lectures have been made available via Yale's YouTube channel.

==Past lectureship holders==
*1923–1924  John Arthur Thomson ''Concerning Evolution'': {{ISBN|978-0-300-13567-1}}
*1924–1925  Henry Norris Russell ''Fate and Freedom'': {{ISBN|978-0-300-13569-5}}
*1925–1926  [[Biography:William Ernest Hocking|William Ernest Hocking]] ''The Self: Its Body and Freedom'': {{ISBN|978-0-404-59191-5}}
*1926–1927  [[Biography:Robert Andrews Millikan|Robert Andrews Millikan]] ''Evolution in Science and Religion'': {{ISBN|978-0-300-13568-8}}
*1927–1928  [[Biography:William Brown (psychologist)|William Brown]] ''Science and Personality'': {{ISBN|978-0-8434-0076-2}}
*1928–1929  James Young Simpson ''Nature: Cosmic, Human, and Divine'': {{ISBN|978-0-300-13565-7}}
*1929–1930  William Pepperell Montague ''Belief Unbound: A Promethean Religion for the Modern World'': {{ISBN|978-0-300-13575-6}}
*1930–1931  [[Biography:Hermann Weyl|Hermann Weyl]] ''The Open World'': {{ISBN|978-0-918024-71-8}}
*1931–1932  Arthur Holly Compton ''The Freedom of Man'': {{ISBN|978-0-300-13570-1}}
*1932–1933  Herbert Spencer Jennings ''The Universe and Life'': {{ISBN|978-0-300-13652-4}}
*1933–1934  [[Biography:John Dewey|John Dewey]] ''A Common Faith'': {{ISBN|978-0-300-00069-6}}
*1934–1935  [[Biography:Joseph Needham|Joseph Needham]] ''Order and Life'': {{ISBN|978-0-300-13654-8}}
*1935–1936  [[Biography:John Macmurray|John Macmurray]] ''The Structure of Religious Experience'': {{ISBN|978-0-300-13566-4}}
*1936–1937  Joseph Barcroft ''The Brain and Its Environment''<ref name="tl-previous-lectureships"/>
*1937–1938  Carl Gustav Jung ''Psychology and Religion'': {{ISBN|978-0-300-00137-2}}
*1938–1939  Te Rangi Hīroa ''Anthropology and Religion'': {{ISBN|978-0-208-00950-0}}
*1939–1940  Henry Ernest Sigerist ''Medicine and Human Welfare'': {{ISBN|978-0-300-13574-9}}
*1940–1941  Alan Gregg ''The Furtherance of Medical Research''<ref name="tl-previous-lectureships"/>
*1941–1942  [[Biography:Reinhold Niebuhr|Reinhold Niebuhr]]<ref name="tl-previous-lectureships"/>
*1942–1943  Alexander Dunlop Lindsay ''Religion, Science, and Society in the Modern World'': {{ISBN|978-0-8369-2604-0}}
*1942–1943  [[Biography:Jacques Maritain|Jacques Maritain]] ''Education at the Crossroads'': {{ISBN|978-0-300-00163-1}}
*1943–1944  George Washington Corner ''Ourselves Unborn: An Embryologist's Essay on Man'': {{ISBN|978-0-300-13578-7}}
*1944–1945  Julius Seelye Bixler ''Conversations with an Unrepentant Liberal'': {{ISBN|978-0-300-13584-8}}
*1945–1946  James Bryant Conant ''On Understanding Science'': {{ISBN|978-0-300-13655-5}}
*1946–1947  Henri Frankfort<ref name="tl-previous-lectureships"/>
*1946–1947  [[Biography:Charles Hartshorne|Charles Hartshorne]] ''The Divine Relativity: A Social Conception of God'': {{ISBN|978-0-300-02880-5}}
*1947–1948  Alexander Stewart Ferguson<ref name="tl-previous-lectureships"/>
*1948–1949  [[Biography:George Gaylord Simpson|George Gaylord Simpson]] ''The Meaning of Evolution'': {{ISBN|978-0-300-00229-4}}
*1949–1950  [[Biography:Erich Fromm|Erich Fromm]] ''[[Philosophy:Psychoanalysis and Religion|Psychoanalysis and Religion]]'': {{ISBN|978-0-300-00089-4}}
*1950–1951  Paul Johannes Tillich ''The Courage to Be'': {{ISBN|978-0-300-08471-9}}
*1951–1952  Jerome Clarke Hunsaker ''Aeronautics at the Mid-Century'': {{ISBN|978-0-300-13577-0}}
*1953–1954  Gordon Willard Allport ''Becoming: Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality'': {{ISBN|978-0-300-00002-3}}
*1954–1955  [[Biography:Pieter Geyl|Pieter Geyl]] ''Use and Abuse of History'': {{ISBN|978-0-300-13651-7}}
*1955–1956  Rebecca West ''The Court and the Castle: Some Treatments of a Recurrent Theme''<ref name="tl-previous-lectureships"/>
*1956–1957  Errol Eustace Harris ''The Idea of God in Modern Thought / Revelation Through Reason: Religion in the Light of Science and Philosophy'': {{ISBN|978-0-317-27547-6}}
*1957–1958  Margaret Mead ''Continuities in Cultural Evolution'': {{ISBN|978-0-7658-0604-8}}
*1958–1959  Hermann Dörries ''Constantine and Religious Liberty'': {{ISBN|978-0-300-13653-1}}
*1961–1962  Paul Ricoeur ''The Philosopher Before Symbols'' (published as ''Freud and Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation'': {{ISBN|978-0-300-02189-9}} )
*1961–1962  [[Biography:Norbert Wiener|Norbert Wiener]] ''Prolegomena to Theology''<ref name="tl-previous-lectureships"/>
*1962–1963  [[Biography:Michael Polanyi|Michael Polanyi]] ''Man and Thought: A Symbiosis / The Tacit Dimension'': {{ISBN|978-0-8446-5999-2}}
*1963–1964  [[Biography:Walter J. Ong|Walter J. Ong]]  ''The Presence of the Word: Some Prolegomena for Cultural and Religious History'': {{ISBN|978-0-300-09973-7}}
*1964–1965  James Munro Cameron ''Images of Authority: A Consideration of the Concept of Regnum and Sacerdotium'': {{ISBN|978-0-300-13580-0}}
*1966–1967  [[Biography:Loren Eiseley|Loren Eiseley]]<ref name="tl-previous-lectureships"/>
*1967–1968  Clifford Geertz ''In Search of Islam: Religious Change in Indonesia / Islam Observed: Religious Development in Morocco and Indonesia'': {{ISBN|978-0-226-28511-5}}
*1968–1969  Albert J. Reiss Jr. ''Civility and the Moral Order: The Police and the Public'': {{ISBN|978-0-300-01646-8}}
*1971–1972  James Hillman ''Re-Visioning Psychology'': {{ISBN|978-0-06-063931-0}}
*1973–1974  Father Theodore M. Hesburgh  ''The Humane Imperative: A Challenge for the Year 2000'': {{ISBN|978-0-300-13579-4}}
*1975–1976  David Baken ''And They Took Themselves Wives: Male Female Relations in the Bible''<ref name="tl-previous-lectureships"/>
*1976–1977  Philip Rieff<ref name="tl-previous-lectureships"/>
*1977–1978  [[Biography:Hans Küng|Hans Küng]] ''Freud and the Problem of God'': {{ISBN|978-0-300-04723-3}}
*1978–1979  [[Biography:Adin Steinsaltz|Adin Steinsaltz]]<ref name="tl-previous-lectureships"/>
*1979–1980  [[Biography:Hans Jonas|Hans Jonas]] ''Technology and Ethics: The Imperative of Responsibility'': {{ISBN|978-0-226-40597-1}}
*1985–1986  [[Biography:Stephen Jay Gould|Stephen Jay Gould]] ''Darwin and Dr. Doolittle: ‘Just History’ as the Wellspring of Nature’s Order''<ref name="tl-previous-lectureships"/>
*1986–1987  Eric R. Kandel ''Cell and Molecular Biological Explorations of Learning and Memory''<ref name="tl-previous-lectureships"/>
*1988–1989  [[Biography:Joshua Lederberg|Joshua Lederberg]] ''Science and Modern Life''<ref name="tl-previous-lectureships"/>
*1993–1994  Walter J. Gehring ''Genetic Control of Development'': {{ISBN|978-0-300-07409-3}}
*1996–1997  Rev. [[Biography:John Polkinghorne|John Polkinghorne]] ''Belief in God in an Age of Science'': {{ISBN|978-0-300-07294-5}}
*1998 David Hartman ''Struggling for the Soul of Israel: A Jewish Response to History'': {{ISBN|978-0-300-08378-1}}
*1999 Bas C. Van Fraassen ''The Empirical Stance'': {{ISBN|978-0-300-10306-9}}
*2000 [[Biography:Peter Singer|Peter Singer]] ''One World: The Ethics and Politics of Globalization'': {{ISBN|978-0-300-10305-2}}
*2001 [[Biography:Francisco J. Ayala|Francisco J. Ayala]] ''From Biology to Ethics: An Evolutionist's View of Human Nature''<ref name="tl-previous-lectureships"/>
*2003 H.C. Erik Midelfort ''Exorcism and Enlightenment: Johann Joseph Gassner and the Demons of 18th-Century Germany'': {{ISBN|978-0-300-10669-5}}
*2003 Mary Douglas ''Writing in Circles: Ring Composition as a Creative Stimulus'': {{ISBN|978-0-300-11762-2}}
*2004 David Sloan Wilson ''Evolution for Everyone''<ref name="tl-previous-lectureships"/>
*2006 (Centennial Conference) Ronald L. Numbers ''Aggressors, Victims, and Peacemakers:  Historical Actors in the Drama of Science and Religion''<ref name="tl-previous-lectureships"/>
*2006 (Centennial Conference) [[Biography:Kenneth R. Miller|Kenneth R. Miller]] ''Darwin, God, and Dover:  What the Collapse of 'Intelligent Design' Means for Science and for Faith in America''<ref name="tl-previous-lectureships"/>
*2006 (Centennial Conference) [[Biography:Alvin Plantinga|Alvin Plantinga]] ''Science and Religion:  Why Does the Debate Continue?''<ref name="tl-previous-lectureships"/>
*2006 (Centennial Conference) [[Biography:Lawrence M. Krauss|Lawrence M. Krauss]] ''Religion vs. Science?  From the White House to Classroom''<ref name="tl-previous-lectureships"/>
*2006 (Centennial Conference) Robert Wuthnow ''No Contradictions Here:  Science, Religion, and the Culture of All Reasonable Possibilities''<ref name="tl-previous-lectureships"/>
*2006 Barbara Herrnstein Smith ''Natural Reflections: Human Cognition at the Nexus of Science and Religion'' " {{ISBN|978-0-300-14034-7}}
*2007 Ahmad Dallal ''Islam, Science, and the Challenge of History'' : {{ISBN|978-0-300-17771-8}}
*2008 [[Biography:Terry Eagleton|Terry Eagleton]] ''Faith and Fundamentalism: Is Belief in Richard Dawkins Necessary for Salvation?'' : {{ISBN|978-0-300-15179-4}}
*2008 Donald S. Lopez, Jr. ''The Scientific Buddha: Past, Present, Future'' : {{ISBN|978-0-226-49312-1}}
*2009 Marilynne Robinson ''Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self'' : {{ISBN|978-0-300-17147-1}}
*2010 Joel Primack and Nancy Ellen Abrams ''Cosmic Society: The New Universe and the Human Future'' : {{ISBN|978-0-300-16508-1}}
*2012 Keith Stewart Thomson ''Jefferson and Darwin: Science and Religion in Troubled Times''<ref name="tl-previous-lectureships"/>
*2013 [[Biography:Philip Kitcher|Philip Kitcher]] ''Secular Humanism''<ref name="tl-previous-lectureships"/>
*2014 Wendy Doniger ''The Manipulation of Religion by the Sciences of Politics and Pleasure in Ancient India''<ref name="tl-previous-lectureships"/>
*2015 [[Biography:Janet Browne|Janet Browne]] ''Becoming Darwin: History, Memory, and Biography''<ref name="tl-previous-lectureships"/>
*2016-17 [[Biography:Kwame Anthony Appiah|Kwame Anthony Appiah]] ''The Anatomy of Religion''<ref name="tl-previous-lectureships"/>
*2017 Judith Farquhar ''Reality, Reason, and Action In and Beyond Chinese Medicine''<ref name="tl-previous-lectureships"/>
*2018 Thomas E. Lovejoy ''The World of the Born and the World of the Made: A New Vision of Our Emerald Planet''<ref name="tl-previous-lectureships">{{cite web |title=Previous Lectureships |url=https://terrylecture.yale.edu/previous-lectureships |website=The Dwight H. Terry Lectureship |publisher=Yale University |accessdate=6 August 2019}}</ref>
*2019 [[Biography:Karen Barad|Karen Barad]]<ref name="tl-previous-lectureships" />

== See also ==
* Silliman Memorial Lectures

==References==
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==External links==
*{{official|https://terrylecture.yale.edu/}}
*[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqHnHG5X2PXB8g5WeNFytm2E7J5Ffmznl Terry Lectures playlist] on [[Company:YouTube|YouTube]]

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