Earnest Enquirers After Truth: A Gifford Anthology: excerpts from Gifford Lectures 1888-1968

First published in 1970, Bernard E. Jones'¬"s selection of Gifford lectures includes excerpts from the writings of over ninety scholars who occupied a Gifford Chair between 1888 and 1968. Lord Gifford had asked his lecturers to be '¬Ühonest to God'¬", insisting that they should be '¬Üearnest enquirers after truth'¬" and had always envisaged the lectures being published. Dr Jones'¬"s anthology is arranged under headings suggested by phrases from Lord Gifford'¬"s will. The selection, which includes names such as William James, A.N. Whitehead, Temple, Barth, Brunner, Bultmann, Niebuhr and Tillich, was made in such a way that the reader would be able to really grasp what natural theology is about. Bernard Ewart Jones served as a Methodist minister, before being appointed to the Lewins Chair of Philosophy at his old college, Hartley Victoria, Manchester. He was awarded a doctorate by the University of Leeds in 1966 for his thesis on '¬ÜThe Concept of Natural Theology in Gifford Lectures'¬".