Wednesday, August 24, 2005

In this week's edition of the Religion Bookline from Publishers Weekly, an article notes a new effort from the Templeton Foundation Press: Legacy of Historic Gifford Lectures Presented Online. Here's a blurb:

Back in 1885, when Scottish jurist Adam Lord Gifford bequeathed 80,000 pounds in his will to establish a series of lectures on natural theology, he would never have imagined that more than 100 years later all those lectures would be available to scholars and the general public all over the world with the click of a small device called a mouse.

They soon will be. Templeton Foundation Press launched the online database, www.giffordlectures.org, August 15, during the Edinburgh Book Festival. The new site contains 48 of the 208 volumes that resulted from the 212 lectures (the most famous being William James’s The Varieties of Religious Experience) as well as a third of the summaries of those books, and half of the lecturers’ biographies. The remaining 160 books will be added to the site in the next few years.

I don't know anything about the Gifford Lectures, and I'm not a great fan of "natural theology", but the site has 48 searchable volumes o' data, many of which are probably not easy to find. So I had to mention it, perhaps some folks out there will find it useable.

Post Author: rico
Wednesday, August 24, 2005 3:59:02 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00) 

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