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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
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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.  pdf [Reproduced by permission of the Whitley Trust] |
1997-1998
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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. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the Whitley Trust] |
1999
1999-2000
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Anne Dunkley, Seen and Heard. Reflections on Children and Baptist tradition. The Whitley Lecture 1999-2000. Oxford: Whitley Publications, 1999. ISBN: 0952815060. pp.41. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the Whitley Trust] |
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Paul S. Fiddes, ed., Doing Theology the Baptist Way. Oxford: Whitley Publications, 2000. ISBN: 0952815095. pp.65. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the Whitley Trust] |
2000-2001
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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. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the Whitley Trust] |
2001-2002
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Nicholas J. Wood, Confessing Christ in a Plural World. The Whitley Lecture 2001-2002. Oxford: Whitley Publications, 2002. ISBN: 0953974804. Pbk. pp.36. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the Whitley Trust] |
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Anthony Clarke, ed., Bound for Glory? God, Church and World in Covenant. Oxford: Whitley Publications, 2002. ISBN: 09539748132. Pbk. pp.86. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the Whitley Trust] |
2003
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Stephen R. Holmes, Tradition and Renewal in Baptist Life. The Whitley Lecture 2003. Oxford: Whitley Publications, 2003. ISBN: 0953974824. Pbk. pp.44. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the Whitley Trust] |
2005
2006
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Kate Coleman, Being Human. A Black British Christian Woman's Perspective. The Whitley Lecture 2006. Oxford: Whitley Publications, 2006. ISBN: 0953974847. Pbk. pp.62. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the Whitley Trust] |
2007
2008
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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. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the Whitley Trust] |
2009
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Sally Nelson, A Thousand Crucifixions. The materialist subversion of the church? The Whitley Lecture 2009. Oxford: Whitley Publications, 2009. ISBN: 9780953974887. Pk. pp.35. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the Whitley Trust] |
2010
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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. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the Whitley Trust] |
2011
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 E. Anne Clements, Wrestling with the Word: A Woman reads Scripture. The Whitley Lecture 2011. Oxford: Whitley Publications, 2011. ISBN: 9780956500601. Pbk. pp.24. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the Whitley Trust] |
2012
2013
2014
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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. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the Whitley Trust] |
2015
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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. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the Whitley Trust] |
2016
2017
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Richard T. Pollard, The Pioneering Evangelicalism of Dan Taylor (1738-1816). The Whitley Lecture 2017. Oxford: Whitley Publications, 2017. ISBN: 978095600663. Pbk. pp.54. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the Whitley Trust] |
2018
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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. |
