BAMPTON LECTURES. These lectures are so called after the name of their founder, the Rev. John Bampton, canon of Salisbury, who left estates originally worth £120 per annum, to the university of Oxford, for the endowment of eight divinity-lecture ser mons, to be preached at Great St 3[ary's every year, and to be published, at the expense of the estate, within 1.`tvo months of their being preached. The preacher is to lecture on one of the following subjects: " The Confirmation of the Christian Faith and the Con futation of all Heretics and Schismatics;" " The Divine Authority of the Scriptures;" "The Authority of the Primitive Fathers in Matters of Christian and Practice;" "The Divinity of Christ;" "The Divinity of the Holy Ghost;" "The Apostles' and Nicene Creeds." No person is qualified to preach these lectures who has not taken the degree of X. A._, either at Oxford or Cambridge, and the same person shall never preach them twice. The first course was delivered in 1780. In 1834 and 1835, no lecturers were appointed, and no lecture was preached in 1841. With these exceptions, there has been an unbroken series of very valuable, but rather learned than popular discourses. The most remarkable are the following: Those delivered in 1734, on " Christianity and :Mohammedanism," by Dr. White, who was accused of having obtained assistance in their composition from Dr. Parr and Dr. Badcock; those by Tatham in 1790, ou "The Logic of Theology;' those of Dr. Nott in 1802, on "Religious Enthusiasm"—this series was directed against the pretensions of Wesley and Whitetield; those of Dr. Mint in 1812; those of Reginald Heber in 1815; Whately in 1822; Milrnan in 1827_,. Burton in on "The Heresies of the Apostolic Age;" Soames in 1830, on " The Doctrines of the Anglo-Saxon Church." But of the whole series, none have caused greater excite ment and controversy than those delivered by Dr. Ilarnpden in 1832, on " The Scholastic Philosophy considered in its Relation to Christian Theology." They were attacked on all sides, but especially by the lenders of the Oxford tract association. Hampden was accused of rationalism and Socinianism. When be was appointed regius professor of divinity in 1836, it petition against his appointment was sent up to the throne; and upon this being rejected. a censure was passed upon him in convocation by a large majority, declaring his teaching to be unsound, and releasing undergraduates from attendance at his lectures. Notwithstanding this, he was raised to the see of Hereford in 1847, under
the government of lord John Russell—thirteen of the bench of bishops protesting against the appointment. The course of 13. L. delivered by the late dean 31ansel, in 1858, on "The Limits of Religious Thought," caused a less bitter, but scarcely less interesting, controversy. 3Ir. 3Iansel possessed great power as a dialectician, and his lectures con tained many very eloquent passages. The main position which be. took Lip was, " That the human mind Inevitably, and by virtue of its essential constitution, finds itself involved in self-contradictions whenever it ventures on eertaili courses of speculation," i.e., on speculations concerning the infinite nature of God. He maintained that all attempts to construct an objective or metaphysical theology must necessarily fail, and that the attainment of a philosophy of the Infinite is utterly impossible, under the exist ing laws of human thought—the practical aim of the whole course being to show the right use of reason in religious questiqns." Mr. Hansel was accused by his critics of condemning: all dogmatic theology (e.g., all creeds and articles), and of making revela tion Itself impossible. 31r. Maurice was one of his principal opponents. Canon Liddon's lectures in 1866, on "Our Lord's Divinity," have been the most important since dean Manscl's. The 13. L. for 1874 were delivered by the Rev. Stanley Leathes, M.A.. on "The Religion of the Christ; its Historic and Literary Development considered as an Evidence of its Origin." A. course of lectures similar to the Bampton was founded about the same time at Cambridge, by the Rev. John IIulse. See IluLsEall LECTURES, BAMPU'ItA, BRAMPURA, or DIANN:rim, a town of Hindustan, in the territory of Indore, on the Rewa, 1344 ft. above the level of the sea, about 180 in. s.w. of Gwalior. It is situated at the base of a range of 11111s, is surrounded by a wall, and has an unfin ished fort, built of stone, which incloses an unfinished palace. Both palace and fort were begun by Jestvunt Row Holkar, of whom there is a beautiful marble statue in the palace. 13. is the principal place of it pergunnah containing 70 villages. Pop. 20,000.