• 1780 - James Bandinel, D.D. of Jesus College ; Public Orator of the University.  The Author first establishes "the truth and authority of the Scriptures ; - for the authenticity of the history being acknowledged, and the facts which are therein recorded being granted, the testimony of miracles and prophecies, joined to the excellence of the doctrines, is a clear and complete demonstration of our Saviour's divine commission."

• 1781 - Timothy Neve, D.D. Chaplain of Merton College. "The great point which the Author has principally attempted to illustrate is, that well known, but too much neglected truth, that Jesus Christ is the Saviour of the world, and the Redeemer of mankind."

• 1782 - Robert Holmes, M.A. Fellow of New College.  "On the prophecies and testimony of John the Baptist, and the parallel prophecies of Jesus Christ."

• 1783 - John Cobb, D.D. Fellow of St. John's College.  The subjects discussed are ; "an inquiry after happiness ; "natural religion ; the Gospel ; repentance ; faith ; professional faith ; practical faith ; the Christian's privileges."

• 1784 - Joseph White, B.D. Fellow of Wadham College.  "A comparison of Mahometism and Christianity in their history, their evidence, and their effects."

• 1785 - Ralph Churton, M.A. Fellow of Brase Nose College. "Eight Sermons on the Prophecies Respecting the Destruction of Jerusalem."

• 1786 - George Croft, M.A. late Fellow of University College. "The use and abuse of reason ; objections against inspiration considered ; the authority of the ancient Fathers examined ; on the conduct of the first Reformers ; the charge of intolerance in the Church of England refutred ; objections against the Liturgy answered ; on the evils of the separation ; conjectural remarks upon prophecies to be fulfilled hereafter."

• 1787 - William Hawkins, M.A. late Fellow of Pembroke College.  "On Scripture mysteries."

• 1788 - Richard Shepherd, D.D. of Corpus Christi College.  "The ground and credibility of the Christian Religion."

• 1789 - Edward Tatham, D.D. of Lincoln College.  "The chart and scale of truth."

• 1790 - Henry Kett, M.A. Fellow of Trinity College. "The object of these Lectures is to rectify the misrepresentations of Mr. Gibbon and Dr. Priestley with respect to the history of the primitive Church."

• 1791 - Robert Morres, M.A. late Fellow of Brase Nose College.  On "faith in general ; faith in divine testimony no subject of question ; internal evidence of the Gospel ; effects of faith ; religious establishments ; heresies."

• 1792 - John Everleigh, D.D. Provost of Oriel College.  "I shall endeavour," says the learned Author, "first to state regularly the substance of our religion from its earliest declarations in the Scriptures of both the Old and New Testaments to its complete publication after the resurrection of Christ."

• 1793 - James Williamson, B.D. of Queen's College.  "The truth, inspiration, authority, and evidence of the Scriptures considered and defended."

• 1794 - Thomas Wintle, B.D. of Pembroke College.  "The expediency, prediction, and accomplishment of the Christian redemption illustrated."

• 1795 - Daniel Veysie, B.D. Fellow of Oriel College. "The doctrine of Atonement illustrated and defended."

• 1796 - Robert Gray, M.A. late of St. Mary Hall.  "On the principles upon which the Reformation of the Church of England was established."

• 1797 - William Finch, LL. D. late Fellow of St. John's College. "The objections of infidel historians and other writers against Christianity considered."

• 1798 - Charles Henry Hall, B.D. late Student of Christ Church. "It is the purpose of these discorses to consider at large what is meant by the scriptural expression, 'fulness of time;' or, in other words, to point out the previous steps by which God Almighty gradually prepared the way for the introduction and promulgation of the Gospel."

• 1799 - William Barrow, LL.D. of Queen's College.  These Lectures contain "answers to some popular objections against the necessity or the credibility of the Christian revelation."

• 1800 - George Richards, M.A. late Fellow of Oriel College. "The divine origin of Prophecy illustrated and defended."

• 1801 - George Stanley Faber, M.A. Fellow of Lincoln College. "Horae Mosaicae ; or, a view of the Mosaical records with respect to their coincidence with profane antiquity, their internal credibility, and their connection with Christianity."

• 1802 - George Frederic Nott, B.D. Fellow of All Souls' College.  "Religious Enthusiasm considered."

• 1803 - John Farrer, M.A. of Queen's College. "On the mission and character of Christ, and on the Beatitudes."

• 1804 - Richard Laurence, LL.D. of University College, "An attempt to illustrate those Articles of the Church of England which the Calvinists improperly consider as Calvinistical."

• 1805 - Edward Nares, M.A. late Fellow of Merton College. "A view of the evidences of Christianity at the close of the pretended age of reason."

• 1806 - John Browne, M.A. late Fellow of Corpus Christi College.  Eight Sermons "In these Lectures the following principle is variously applied in the vindication of the religion ; that there has been an infancy of the species, analogous to that of the individuals of whom it is composed, and that the infancy of human nature required a different mode of treatment from that which was suitable to its advanced state."

• 1807 - Thomas Le Mesurier, M.A. late Fellow of New College.  "The nature and guilt of Schism considered with a particular reference to the principles of the Reformation."

• 1808 - John Penrose, M.A. of Corpus Christi College.  "An attempt to prove the truth of Christianity from the wisdom displayed in its original establishment, and from the history of false and corrupted systems of religion."

• 1809 - John Bayley Somers Carwithen, M.A. of St. Mary Hall. "A view of the Brahminical religion in its confirmation of the truth of the sacred history, and in its influence on the moral character."

• 1810 - Thomas Falconer, M.A. of Corpus Christi College. "Certain principles in Evanson's 'Dissonance of the four generally received Evangelists,' &c. examined."

• 1811 - John Bidlake, D.D. of Christ Church.  "The truth and consistency of divine revelation ; with some remarks on the contrary extremes of Infidelity and Enthusiasm."

• 1812 - Richard Mant, M.A. late Fellow of Oriel College.  "An appeal to the Gospel ; or an inquiry into the justice of the charge, alleged by Methodists and other objectors, that the Gospel is not preached by the National Clergy."

• 1813 - John Collinson, M.A. of Queen's College.  "A key to the writings of the principal Fathers of the Christian Church, who flourished during the first three centuries."

• 1814 - William Van Mildert, D.D. Regius Professor of Divinity, and Canon of Christ Church.  "An inquiry into the general principles of Scripture-interpration."

• 1815 - Reginald Heber, M.A. late Fellow of All Souls' College.  "The personality and office of the Christian Comforter asserted and explained."

• 1816 - John Hume Spry, M.A. of Oriel College.  "Christian Unity doctrinally and historically considered."

• 1817 - John Miller, Fellow of Worcester College. "The Divine Authority of Holy Scripture Asserted, From its Adaptation to the Real State of Human Nature."

• 1818 - Charles Abel Moysey, "The Doctrine of the Unitarians Examined, as Opposed to the Church of England"

• 1846 - Augustus Short The Witness of the Spirit with our Spirit

• 1866 - Henry Parry Liddon, "The Divinity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ"

• 1871 - George Herbert Curteis, "Dissent, in Its Relation to the Church of England"

• 1880 - Edwin Hatch, "The Organization of the early Christian Churches"

• 1883 - William Henry Fremantly, "The World as the Subject of Redemption ; Being an Attempt to set forth the Functions of the Church as designed to embrace the whole Race of Mankind"

• 1884 - Frederic Temple, "The Relations Between Religion and Science"

• 1885 - Frederic W. Farrar, D.D. F.R.S., Late Fellow of Trinity College, "History of Interpretation"

• 1886 - Charles Bigg, Asst. Chaplain of Corpus Christi College. "The Christian Platonists of Alexandria

• 1889 - T.K. Cheyne, D.D. "The Origin and Religious Contents of the Psalter in the Light of Old Testament Criticism and the History of Religions."

• 1915 - Hastings Rashdall  "The idea of atonement in Christian theology

• 1928 - Kenneth E. Kirk "The Vision of God: The Christian Doctrine of the Summum Bonum"

• 1940 - George Leonard "Prestige Fathers and Heretics"

The Bampton Lectures in America at Columbia

• 1976 - Geoffrey W. H. Lampe "God As Spirit "

• 1992 - Colin Gunton "The One, the Three and the Many: God, Creation and the Culture of Modernity"

• 1996 - Ursula King "Christ in All Things: Exploring Spirituality With Teilhard De Chardin "

• 2001 - David Fergusson "Church, State and Civil Society "

• 2005 - Paul S. Fiddes "Seeing the world and knowing God: ancient wisdom and modern doctrine"

John Bampton (1690 - June 2, 1751) was an English churchman, for some time canon of Salisbury.

Bampton was a member of Trinity College, Oxford, where he graduated M.A. in 1712. He is now remembered chiefly because of the contents of his will, which directs that eight lectures shall be delivered annually at Oxford in the University Church on as many Sunday mornings in full term, "between the commencement of the last month in Lent term and the end of the third week in Act term, upon either of the following subjects: to confirm and establish the Christian faith, and to confute all heretics and schismatics; upon the divine authority of the Holy Scriptures; upon the authority of the writings of the primitive fathers, as to the faith and practice of the primitive Church; upon the divinity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; upon the divinity of the Holy Ghost; upon the articles of the Christian faith as comprehended in the Apostles and Nicene Creeds."

The lecturer, who must be at least a Master of Arts of Oxford or Cambridge, was formerly chosen yearly by the heads of colleges, on the fourth Tuesday in Easter term, and no one can be chosen a second time. The Bampton Lectures, as they are known, began in 1780, and are still held, but not as often.

The Rev. Bampton,  was a B.A. and M.A. graduate of Trinity College, University of Oxford. Bampton served as prebendary (i.e., canon) at Salisbury Cathedral, 1718-1751, and through his will (below), he established the Bampton Lectureship, one of the most eminent lectureships on Protestant Christian theology. The Bampton Lectureship consists of eight lecture-sermons. The University of Oxford describes the Bampton Lectureship as follows:

The University [Oxford] in 1779 accepted a benefaction to establish the Bampton Lecturership, the holder of which is required to give eight divinity lecture sermons in Hilary and Trinity Full Terms annually (or, since 1910, biennially) in the Church of St Mary's. Although this is not specified in the original bequest, the lectures have traditionally been given on Sundays, and it is laid down in the present statute that they should be. . . . It is also now expedient to abolish the Sarum Lectures, which are considered to have become unnecessary in so far as since 1990 the Bampton Lecturership has been open to both men and women, and to suitable persons unconnected with churches within the Anglican Communion (Oxford University Gazette, 20 March 1997, University Agenda).

Since 1952, the Bampton Lectureship fund also supported the Sarum Lectureship in theology at the University of Oxford. In 1997, the Sarum Lectureship was abolished so that the Bampton Lectureship, and theology at Oxford in general, could receive greater acclaim and exposure.