The William Belden Noble Lectures for this year will be delivered by the Reverend Walter Robert Matthews, A.M., D.D., dean of King's College, University of London. Dr. Matthews is also professor of the Philosophy of Religion in King's College, chaplain of Grays Inn, examining chaplain to the Bishop of Oxford, and chaplain to the King. He has written several books, among them being "Stories in Christian Philosophy", published in 1921, "The Gospel and the Modern Man", published in 1925, and "God and Evolution", published in 1926.
The general subject of the lectures, which will be given on Mondays and Fridays in Emerson D, will be "The Doctrine of God." The subjects of the separate lectures are "Man's Experience of God", April 23: "The Christian Experience of God", April 27; "The Idea of God in Christian Theology", April 30; "The Changing Background of Religious Thought", May 4; "A Transcendent God and an Evolving World", May 7; and "Suggestions toward a Modern Christian Theism", May 11.
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