The Hibbert Lectures are an annual series of non-sectarian lectures on theological issues. They are sponsored by the Hibbert Trust, which was founded in 1847 by the Unitarian Robert Hibbert with a goal to uphold "the unfettered exercise of private judgement in matters of religion.". In recent years the lectures have been broadcast by the BBC. Lecturers (incomplete list) 1878-1894 (First Series) 1878 Max Müller On the Religions of India (inaugural) 1879 Peter le Page Renouf The Religion of the Egyptians 1880 Ernest Renan Lectures on the Influence of the Institutions, Thought And Culture of Rome on Christianity And the Development of the Catholic Church 1881 T. W. Rhys Davids Indian Buddhism 1882 Abraham Kuenen National Religions and Universal Religion 1883 Charles Beard The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century in its Relation to Modern Thought and Knowledge 1884 Albert Reville The Native Religions of Mexico and Peru 1885 Otto Pfleiderer The Influence of the Apostle Paul on the Development of Christianity 1886 John Rhys Lectures on the origin and growth of religion as illustrated by Celtic heathendom 1887 Archibald Sayce Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as illustrated by the Religion of the Ancient Babylonians 1888 Edwin Hatch Influence of Greek Ideas and Usages Upon the Christian Church 1891 Eugene, Count Goblet D'Alviella Lectures on the Origin and Growth of the Concept of God, as Illustrated by Anthropology and History 1892 Claude Montefiore The Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Religion of the Ancient Hebrews 1893 Charles Barnes Upton Lectures on the bases of religious belief 1894 James Drummond Via, Veritas, Vita; Christianity in its most simple and intelligible form 1900-1949 1906 Franz Cumont (on Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism) 1908 William James A Pluralistic Universe 1911 Lewis Richard Farnell The Higher Aspects of Greek Religion 1912 James Hope Moulton Early Zoroastrianism 1913 Josiah Royce The Problem of Christianity, online edition (volume one) 1913 David Samuel Margoliouth The Early Development of Mohammedanism 1914 Herbert A. Giles Confucianism and Its Rivals 1916 Louis de La Vallée-Poussin The Way to Nirvána: Ancient Buddhism as a Discipline of Salvation 1916 Philip H. Wicksteed The reactions between dogma & philosophy illustrated from the works of S. Thomas Aquinas 1919 Joseph Estlin Carpenter Theism in Medieval India 1920 William Ralph Inge "The State, Visible and Invisible" 1921 James Moffatt The Approach to the New Testament 1922 Lawrence Pearsall Jacks Religious