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The Gifford Lectures
The Gifford Lectures are started in the 19th century by Lord Gifford. The lectureship goes around four ancient Scottish universities, so Aberdeen, St Andrews, Edinburgh and Glasgow. And its subject is natural theology - a way of saying that we can't rely on supernatural revelation to tell us what's true. So I decided as a kind of thought experiment that if they very seldom ask biblical scholars to give the giffords, it's normally philosophers or systematically lojans. But if you put Jesus in the middle, we might learn something about knowledge itself as well as God. My mother thought from the image and said, I'm glad I don't have to listen to