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  • 37th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 25th May 2023

    Loretta Minghella talks about Money, Bias and the Geography of the Heart

    Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  • 38th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 23rd May 2024

    Canon Paula Gooder gives the 2024 Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture, discussing truth telling and storytelling

  • 35th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 11th November 2021

    Loretta Minghella talks about Money, Bias and the Geography of the Heart

  • 34th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 9th May 2019

    Sir James MacMillan argues that the search for the sacred did not end with modernity in music and that it has grown and become complex.

  • 11th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 9th May 1996

    Delivered by David Hare, Playwright at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 9th May 1996 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

  • 13th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 7th May 1998

    Delivered by Canon Eric James FKC at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 7th May 1998 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

  • 7th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 7th May 1992

    Delivered by John Fenton at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 7th May 1992 and at Lincoln Theological College and Keble College, Oxford.

  • 17th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 2nd May 2002

    Delivered by The Reverend Mark Oakley, St Paul's Covent Garden at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 2nd May 2002 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

  • 10th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 4th May 1995

    Delivered by The Most Revd Richard Holloway D.D., Bishop of Edinburgh, Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 4th May 1995 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford and Lincoln Theological College.

  • 25th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 6th May 2010

    Delivered by 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.

  • 31st Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 26th May 2016

    Roger Scruton, philosopher, public commentator and author, gives the 31st Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture on the topic of The Sacred, the Profane and the Desecrated.

  • 14th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 6th May 1999

    Delivered by The Rt Hon Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 6th May 1999 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

  • 20th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 12th May 2005

    Delivered by The Reverend Nicholas Holtam, Vicar of St. Martin-in-the-Fields at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 12th May 2005 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

  • 6th Eric Symes Abbot Memorial Lecture

    Wednesday, 26th June 1991

    Delivered by Timothy Schroder at Keble College Oxford, King's College London, and Lincoln Theological College in May and June 1991.

  • Sermon at Memorial Eucharist For Eric Symes Abbott

    Wednesday, 12th June 1985

    Delivered by The Reverend John Robson. Chaplain of Wellington College, Berkshire.

  • 32nd Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 11th May 2017

    Salley Vickers addresses the crucial role of the arts in giving shape and form to abiding intangible realities, suggesting the vital importance of nurturing the imagination through the arts in an increasingly secular society.

  • Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lectures

    Eric Abbott was Dean of Westminster between 1959 and 1974. His friends set up a memorial trust to provide for an annual lecture on spirituality.

  • Sermon at the Installation of Tricia Hillas as Canon of Westminster - Revelation 3:14

    Sunday, 9th May 2021

    The Sermon given by the Dean of Westminster at the installation of Tricia Hillas as Canon of Westminster.

  • The Charles Gore Lecture 2020

    Tuesday, 3rd March 2020

    A Theology of Hope for the 21st Century, a lecture given by Professor Jürgen Moltmann, Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology, University of Tübingen

    Charles Gore Memorial Lectures

  • 3rd Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Wednesday, 1st June 1988

    Delivered by Dame Janet Baker at King's College London on Wednesday 1st May 1988.

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