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The Whitley Lecture was first established in 1949 in honour of W.T. Whitley (1861–1947), the Baptist minister and historian. Following a pastorate in Bridlington, during which he also taught at Rawdon College in Yorkshire, Whitley became the first Principal of the Baptist College of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, in 1891. This institution was later renamed Whitley College in his honour.

Whitley was a key figure in the formation of the Baptist Historical Society in 1908. He edited its journal, which soon gained an international reputation for the quality of its contents – a reputation it still enjoys nearly a century later as the Baptist Quarterly. His A History of British Baptists (London: Charles Griffin, 1923) remains an important source of information and comment for contemporary historians. Altogether he made an important contribution to Baptist life and self-understanding in Britain and Australia, providing a model of how a pastor-scholar might enrich the life and faith of others.

The establishment of the annual lecture in his name is designed as an encouragement to research and writing by Baptist scholars, and to enable the results of this work to be published. The giving of grants, advice and other forms of support by the Lectureship Committee serves the same purpose. The committee consists of representatives of the British Baptist Colleges, the Baptist Union of Great Britain, BMS World Mission, the Baptist Ministers' Fellowship and the Baptist Historical Society. These organizations also provide financial support for its work.

1996-1997

On-line Resource Nigel G. Wright, Power and Discipleship. Towards a Baptist Theology of the State. The Whitley Lecture 1996-1997. Oxford: Whitley Publications, 1996. ISBN: 085281501X. Pbk. pp.44. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the Whitley Trust]

1997-1998

On-line Resource Ruth M.B. Gouldbourne, Reinventing the Wheel. Women and Ministry in English Baptist Life. The Whitley Lecture 1997-1998. Oxford: Whitley Publications, 1997. ISBN: 0952815036. Pbk. pp.47. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the Whitley Trust]

1999

On-line Resource Keith G. Jones, A Shared Meal and a Common Table. Some Relfections on the Lord's Supper and Baptists. The Whitley Lecture 1999. Oxford: Whitley Publications, 1999. ISBN: 0952815044. Pbk. pp.58. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the Whitley Trust]

1999-2000

On-line Resource Anne Dunkley, Seen and Heard. Reflections on Children and Baptist tradition. The Whitley Lecture 1999-2000. Oxford: Whitley Publications, 1999. ISBN: 0952815060. pp.41. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the Whitley Trust]
On-line Resource Paul S. Fiddes, ed., Doing Theology the Baptist Way. Oxford: Whitley Publications, 2000. ISBN: 0952815095. pp.65. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the Whitley Trust]

2000-2001

On-line Resource Steve Finamore, Violence, the Bible an the End of the World. The Whitley Lecture 2000-2001. Oxford: Whitley Publications, 2000. ISBN: 09528150879. Pbk. pp.39. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the Whitley Trust]

2001-2002

On-line Resource Nicholas J. Wood, Confessing Christ in a Plural World. The Whitley Lecture 2001-2002. Oxford: Whitley Publications, 2002. ISBN: 0953974804. Pbk. pp.36. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the Whitley Trust]
On-line Resource Anthony Clarke, ed., Bound for Glory? God, Church and World in Covenant. Oxford: Whitley Publications, 2002. ISBN: 09539748132. Pbk. pp.86. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the Whitley Trust]

2003

On-line Resource Stephen R. Holmes, Tradition and Renewal in Baptist Life. The Whitley Lecture 2003. Oxford: Whitley Publications, 2003. ISBN: 0953974824. Pbk. pp.44. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the Whitley Trust]

2005

On-line Resource Andrew Rollinson, Liberating Ecclesiology. Setting the church free to live out its missionary nature. The Whitley Lecture 2005. Oxford: Whitley Publications, 2005. ISBN: 0953974847. Pbk. pp.40. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the Whitley Trust]

2006

On-line Resource Kate Coleman, Being Human. A Black British Christian Woman's Perspective. The Whitley Lecture 2006. Oxford: Whitley Publications, 2006. ISBN: 0953974847. Pbk. pp.62. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the Whitley Trust]

2007

On-line Resource Sean Winter, More Light and Truth? Biblical Interpretation in Covenantal Perspective. The Whitley Lecture 2007. Oxford: Whitley Publications, 2007. ISBN: 9780953974863. Pbk. pp.38. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the Whitley Trust]
On-line Resource John Weaver & Margot R. Hodson, eds., The Place of Environmental Theology. A guide for seminaries, colleges and universities. Oxford: The Whitley Trust / Prague: International Baptist Seminary, 2007. ISB: 80870064046. Pbk. pp.130. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the Whitley Trust]

2008

On-line Resource Craig Gardiner, How can we sing the Lord's Song? Worship in and out of the church. The Whitley Lecture 2008. Oxford: Whitley Publications, 2008. ISBN: 9780953974870. pp.36. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the Whitley Trust]

2009

On-line Resource Sally Nelson, A Thousand Crucifixions. The materialist subversion of the church? The Whitley Lecture 2009. Oxford: Whitley Publications, 2009. ISBN: 9780953974887. Pk. pp.35. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the Whitley Trust]

2010

On-line Resource David Southall, The Poetic Paul. On Creating New Realities for Righteousness in Romans. The Whitley Lecture 2010. Oxford: Whitley Publications, 2010. ISBN: 9780953974894. Pbk. pp.32. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the Whitley Trust]

2011

On-line Resource E. Anne Clements, Wrestling with the Word: A Woman reads Scripture. The Whitley Lecture 2011E. Anne Clements, Wrestling with the Word: A Woman reads Scripture. The Whitley Lecture 2011. Oxford: Whitley Publications, 2011. ISBN: 9780956500601. Pbk. pp.24. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the Whitley Trust]

2012

On-line Resource Ian M. Randall, Religious Liberty in Continental Europe. Campaigning by British Baptists, 1840s to 1930s. The Whitley Lecture 2012. Oxford: Whitley Publications, 2012. ISBN: 9780956500618. pp.30. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the Whitley Trust]

2013

On-line Resource Michael J. Peat, Answering Mendel's Dwarf. Thinking Theologically About Human Genetic Selection. The Whitley Lecture 2013. Oxford: Whitley Publications, 2013. ISBN: 9780956500625. Pbk. pp.20. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the Whitley Trust]

2014

On-line Resource Helen J. Dare, Always on the way ad in the fray: Reading the Bible as Baptists. The Whitley Lecture 2014. Oxford: Whitley Publications, 2014. ISBN: 9780956500632. Pbk. pp.44. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the Whitley Trust]

2015

On-line Resource Ed Kaneen, What is Biblical 'Ministry'? Re-evaluating diaconia in the New Testament. The Whitley Lecture 2015. Oxford: Whitley Publications, 2015. ISBN: 978095600649. Pbk. pp.40. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the Whitley Trust]

2016

On-line Resource Joshua T. Searle, Church Without Walls. Post-Soviet Baptists after the Ukrainian Revolution, 2013-14. The Whitley Lecture 2014. Oxford: Whitley Publications, 2014. ISBN: 9780956500656. Pbk. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the Whitley Trust]

2017

On-line Resource Richard T. Pollard, The Pioneering Evangelicalism of Dan Taylor (1738-1816). The Whitley Lecture 2017. Oxford: Whitley Publications, 2017. ISBN: 978095600663. Pbk. pp.54. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the Whitley Trust]

2018

Book or monograph Helen Paynter, Dead and Buried? Attending to the voices of the victim in the Old Testament and Today: Towards an ethical reading of the Old Testament texts of violence. The Whitley Lecture 2018. Oxford: Whitley Publications, 2018. ISBN: 9780956500670. Pbk. pp.40.
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