Past lectures archive
34th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture
The Most Spiritual of the Arts: Music, Modernity, and the Search for the Sacred
Speaker: Sir James MacMillan, composer, conductor and artistic director
Thursday, 9th May 2019
33rd Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture
Beating the Bounds: Parish Ministry and Spirituality Today
Speaker: The Reverend Richard Coles FKC, Vicar of Finedon, Northamptonshire
Thursday, 24th May 2018
32nd Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture
Faith and Imagination – How the Arts speak to the reality of the Unseen
Speaker: Salley Vickers, author and critic
Thursday, 11th May 2017
31st Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture
The Sacred, the Profane and the Desecrated
Speaker: Professor Roger Scruton, philosopher, public commentator and author
Thursday, 26th May 2016
30th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture
Blessed are the Hypocrites?
Speaker: The Reverend Lucy Winkett, Rector, St James's Piccadilly
Thursday, 21st May 2015
29th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture
Beyond Justice
Speaker: The Reverend Dr Sam Wells, Vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields
Friday, 25th July 2014
28th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture
Constantine's Vision and the Church Today - From the Battle of the Milvian Bridge (AD 312) to the twenty-first century
Speaker: Professor Dame Averil Cameron FSA FKC, Former Warden of Keble College, Oxford
Thursday, 2nd May 2013
27th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture
Mis-establishment - Locating, and Re-locating, the Church of England
Speaker: The Right Reverend Dr Peter Selby, President of the National Council for Independent Monitoring Boards, Visiting Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, King's College, London; formerly Bishop of Worcester and Bishop to HM Prisons
Thursday, 10th May 2012
26th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture
The Word in Print
Speaker: The Right Reverend and Right Honourable Dr Richard Chartres KCVO, Bishop of London
Thursday, 26th May 2011
25th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture
The End of the Permissive Society? Towards a Christian understanding of the common good
Speaker: The Right Reverend the Lord Harries of Pentregarth FKC, Former Bishop of Oxford, Gresham Professor of Divinity, and Honorary Professor of Theology at King's College London
Thursday, 6th May 2010
