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JOHN BAMPTON (c. 169o-1751)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 305 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:BAMPTON (c. 169o-1751)  , See also:English divine, was a member of Trinity See also:College, See also:Oxford, where he graduated M.A. in 1712, and for some See also:time See also:canon of See also:Salisbury . He died on the 2nd of See also:June 1751, aged 61 . His will directs that eight lectures shall be delivered annually at Oxford in the University See also:Church on as many See also:Sunday mornings in full See also:term, " between the commencement of the last See also:month in See also:Lent term and the end of the third See also:week in See also:Act term, upon either of the following subjects:—to confirm and establish the See also:Christian faith, and to confute all heretics and schismatics; upon the divine authority of the See also:Holy Scriptures; upon the authority of the writings of the See also:primitive fathers, as to the faith and practice of the primitive Church; upon the divinity of our See also:Lord and Saviour Jesus See also:Christ; upon the divinity of the Holy See also:Ghost; upon the articles of the Christian faith as comprehended in the Apostles' and Nicene See also:Creeds." The lecturer, who must be at least a See also:Master of Arts of Oxford or See also:Cambridge, was formerly chosen yearly by the heads of colleges, on the See also:fourth Tuesday in See also:Easter term, and no one can be chosen a second time . The See also:series of lectures began in 178o, and is still continued, though since 1895 elections are only made in alternate years through a depreciation of the See also:revenue of the fund . The endowment provides £120 for each lecturer, and the lectures have to be published within two months of their delivery . Among the lecturers have been See also:Heber in 1815 (The See also:Personality and See also:Office of the Christian Comforter); R . See also:Whately in 1822 (Party Feeling in See also:Religion); R . D . See also:Hampden in 1832 (The Scholastic See also:Philosophy in relation to Christian See also:Theology); E . M . See also:Goulburn in 185o (The Resurrection of the See also:Body); H . L .

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Mansel in 1858 (The Limits of Religious Thought); H . P . See also:Liddon in 1866 (The Divinity of our Lord); E . See also:Hatch in 188o (The Organization of the See also:Early Christian Churches); C . Bigg in 1886 (Christian Platonists of See also:Alexandria); C . See also:Gore in 1891 (The Incarnation); W . Sanday in 1893 (See also:Inspiration); J . R . Illingworth in 1894 (Personality, Human and Divine); W . R . Inge in 1899 (Christian See also:Mysticism), &c . A See also:complete See also:list is given in the Oxford See also:Historical See also:Register .

The institution has done much to preserve a high See also:

standard in English theology; and the lectures as a whole See also:form a historically interesting collection of apologetic literature .

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