Inaugural Addresses

Adams, John Watson - Inaugural Sermon (1835)

Adger, John Bailey - Inaugural Discourse on Church History and Polity (1859)

Agnew, John Holmes - Inaugural Address, Delivered at the Opening of Newark College (1834)

Aiken, Charles Augustus - Inaugural Address at Union College (1870)

Alexander, Archibald - An Inaugural Discourse at Princeton Theological  Seminary (1812)

Alexander, James Waddel - Discourses at the Inauguration of the Rev. James W. Alexander, D.D., as Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Church Government in the Theological Seminary at Princeton (1850)

Alexander, Joseph Addison - Critical Study of the English Bible (1839)

Allis, Oswald Thompson - The Conflict Over the Old Testament (1923)

Armstrong, William Park - The Witness of the Gospels (1904)

Baer, John Willis - The Inaugural Address Delivered by John Willis Baer, LL.D. With Other Addresses and Messages of Congratulation (1906)

Barrows, Elijah Porter - The Advancement of Biblical Knowledge (1838)
- The Indivisible Nature of Revelation (1853)

Beattie, Francis Robert - Christian Apologetics: Inaugural Address (1890)

Bishop, Robert Hamilton - Oxford Addresses; Being the Inaugural Address, and Address to the Graduates of Miami University, of the Years 1829, '30, '31, '32, '33, '34, by R.H. Bishop, D.D. President; Addresses Delivered, on Anniversary Occasions, Before the Erodelphian and Union Literary Societies of Miami University; and An Address Delivered at the Anniversary of the Society of the Alumni of Miami University, September 22, 1834, by William M. Corry, A.M. (1835)

Blackwood, Andrew Watterson - The Teaching of Homiletics Today: Inaugural Address (1931)

Blakely, Jr., Hunter Bryson - New Testament Christianity (1929)

Blythe, James Ebenezer - Inaugural Address, Delivered January 1, 1833, by James Blythe, D.D., at His Inauguration into Office, as President of South Hanover College (1833)

Boggs, William Ellison - Church and State in Their Reciprocal Relations and Fundamental Contrast - Inaugural Address at Columbia Theological Seminary (1883)

Boyd, James Oscar - Ezekiel and the Modern Dating of the Pentateuch (1908)

Breckinridge, Robert Jefferson - Inaugural Address at the Danville Theological Seminary (1854)

Breckinridge, William Lewis - A Christian College: Its Instruction and Its Government. The Inaugural Address of Rev. Dr. William L. Breckinridge, President of Centre College (1864)

Briggs, Charles Augustus - Address by Rev. Charles A. Briggs, D.D. on Occasion of His Inauguration as Davenport Professor of Hebrew and the Cognate Languages in the Union Theological Seminary, New York City (1876)
- Exegetical Theology, Especially of the Old Testament (1877)
                                                      - The Authority of Holy Scripture: An Inaugural Address (1891)

Brown, William Adams - Christ the Vitalizing Principle of Christian Theology: An Address Delivered Upon the Occasion of the Inauguration as Roosevelt Professor of Systematic Theology in the Union Theological Seminary, New York (1898)

Burrowes, George - The Sacred Scriptures and Pagan Mythology: An Inaugural Address (1851)

Caldwell, Eugene Craighead - The Permanent Value of the Old Testament (1907)
- The Message of the Old Testament For the Modern Man (1915)

Cox, Samuel Hanson - The Ministry We Need: Three Inaugural Discourses Delivered at Auburn, June 18, 1835 (1835)
- Inaugural Address as President of Ingham Collegiate Institute (1856)
- Education, Especially That of Woman (1856)

Dabney, Robert Lewis - Uses and Results of Church History (1854, 1891)

DeWitt, John - Church History as Science, as Theological Discipline, and as a Mode of the Gospel: An Inaugural Discourse (1883)

Edwards, Jonathan - Proceedings and Addresses at the Inauguration of Jonathan Edwards, D.D., LL.D., President of Washington and Jefferson College, in the College Hall, Washington, Pennsylvania, April 4, 1866 (1866)
- The American College: An Address Delivered by Jonathan Edwards, D.D., LL.D., on Occasion of His Inauguration as President of Washington and Jefferson College (1866)
- Addresses Delivered at the Inauguration of the Revd. Jonathan Edwards, D.D., LL.D., as Professor of Didactic and Polemic Theology in Danville Theological Seminary (1878)

Eells, James - Inaugural Address at Lane Theological Seminary (1879)

Elliott, David - An Inaugural Address (1830)

English, Thomas Reese - Conditions of Success in the Gospel Ministry (1894)

Erdman, Sr., Charles Rosenbury - Modern Practical Theology (1907)

Girardeau, John Lafayette - Theology as a Science, Involving an Infinite Element: Inaugural Address (1876)

Gray, John Hannah - Inaugural Address, Delivered on the 7th July, 1858, Before the Trustees of the La Grange Synodical College (1858)

Green, James Benjamin - The Nature and Value of Theology (1923)

Green, Lewis Warner - Inaugural Address, Delivered Before the Board of Trustees of Hampden Sidney College, January 10th, 1849 (1849)
- Addresses Delivered at the Inauguration of Rev. Lewis W. Green, D.D., as President of Transylvania University and State Normal School, November 18, 1856 (1856)
- The American System of Collegiate Education (1859)

Green, William Henry - Discourses at the Inauguration of William Henry Green (1851)

Greene, Jr., William Brenton - Inauguration of William Brenton Greene, Jr., D.D. (1893)
                                                             - The Function of the Reason in Christianity: Inaugural Address (1893)

Griffin, Edward Dorr - An Oration Delivered June 21, 1809, on the Day of the Author’s Induction Into the Office of Bartlet Professor of Pulpit Eloquence, in the Divinity College, at Andover (1809)

Gutzke, Manford George - The Function of the Bible Today: Inaugural Address (1940)

Hall, William Thomas - Theology the Science of Religion (1896)

Halsey, Leroy Jones - Inaugural Address at the Opening of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of the North West (1860)

Hastings, Thomas Samuel - The Inauguration of the Rev. Thomas S. Hasting, D.D. as Professor of Sacred Rhetoric (1881)

Hays, George Price - Inaugural Address of Rev. Geo. P. Hays, at His Induction into the Office of President of Washington and Jefferson College (1870)

Hemphill, Charles Robert - Christ’s Testimony to the Mosaic Authorship of the Pentateuch: Inaugural Address Delivered September 18, 1883 (1884)

Hibben, John Grier - The Essentials of Liberal Education (1912)

Hill, Daniel Harvey - College Discipline: An Inaugural Address (1855)

Hodge, Archibald Alexander - Addresses at the Inauguration of Rev. A.A. Hodge, as Professor of Didactic, Polemic & Historical Theology, in the Western Theological Seminary; Comprising the Charge to the Professor, by Rev. James M. Platt; and the Inaugural Address, by Rev. Archibald A. Hodge, D.D. (1864)
- Dogmatic Christianity, the Essential Ground of Practical Christianity: Addresses at the Inauguration of Rev. Archibald Alex. Hodge, D.D., LL.D., as Associate Professor of Didactic and Polemic Theology in the Theological Seminary at Princeton, N.J., November 8, 1877 (1877)

Hodge, Jr., Caspar Wistar - The Significance of the Reformed Theology Today (1921)

Hopkins, II, Samuel Miles - Protestantism in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century: Inaugural Address of Samuel M. Hopkins, Professor of Church History, &c., Auburn Theological Seminary (1849)

Hornblower, William Henry - Inauguration of the Rev. Wm. H. Hornblower, D.D. to the Professorship of Sacred Rhetoric, Church Government and Pastoral Theology (1872)

Howe, George - An Address Delivered at Columbia (S.C.) March 28, 1832. At the Inauguration of the Author, as Professor of Biblical Literature, in the Theological Seminary of the Synod of South Carolina and Georgia (1832)

Howe, Samuel Blanchard - An Address, Delivered by the Rev. S.B. How, at His Inauguration as Principal of Dickinson College, in Carlisle, Pa., on Tuesday, March 30, 1830 (1830)

Humphrey, Edward Porter - Inaugural Address, Delivered at the Danville Theological Seminary, October 13, 1853 (1854)

Janeway, Jacob Jones - Inaugural Address at Western Theological Seminary (1828, 1858)

Jacobus, Jr., Melancthon Williams - The Evolution of New Testament Criticism and the Consequent Outlook for To-Day: Inaugural Address of Melancthon Williams Jacobus (1892)

Jacobus, Sr., Melancthon Williams - A Plea for the Critical Study of the Scriptures Against Romanism and Rationalism: A Discourse (1852)

Johnson, Herrick - Addresses at the Inauguration of Rev. David C. Marquis, D.D., as Professor of New Testament Literature and Exegesis, and of Rev. Herrick Johnson, D.D., LL.D., as Professor of Sacred Rhetoric and Pastoral Theology, in the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of the Northwest, Chicago, Illinois (1884)

Johnson, Thomas Cary - The Study of the English Bible is Demanded by the Needs of Our Day (1892)
- The Tenent of Jure Divino Presbyterian Polity (1893)

Junkin, Sr., George - Two Addresses, Delivered at Oxford, Ohio, on the Occasion of the Inauguration of Rev. Geo. Junkin, D.D., as President of Miami University (1841)
                                  - Christianity the Patron of Literature and Science (1849)

Kuiper, Rienk Bouke - The Function of the Chair of Practical Theology (1933)

Kyle, Melvin Grove - The Bible in the Light of Archaeological Discoveries (1917)

Lacy, Jr., Benjamin Rice - Union Theological Seminary in This Present Age (1927)

Lampe, Joseph Joachim - The Old Testament in Light of Modern Scholarship: Inauguration of the Rev. Joseph J. Lampe, D.D., Ph.D. as Professor of Old Testament Literature and Exegesis (1896)

Latimer, Sr., James Fair - Installation of the Rev. J. F. Latimer, Ph. D., D.D., Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Polity (1885)

Laws, Samuel Spahr - A Thesis on the Dual Constitution of Man or Neuro-Psychology (1875)
- Inauguration of S.S. Laws, LL.D., as President of the University of Missouri, at Columbia, on Wednesday, July 5, 1876 (1876)
- Inspired Anticipations of Some Conclusions of Modern Science and Philosophy (1895)

Livingston, John Henry - Inaugural Oration on The Truth of Christianity (1785)

Loetscher, Sr., Frederick William - Church History as a Science and as a Theological Discipline (1915)

Lord, Willis - Inaugural Address at the Opening of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of the North West (1860)

Machen, John Gresham - History and Faith (1915)

Mackay, John Alexander - The Restoration of Theology (1937)

Mackenzie, Donald - Inaugural Address (1934)

Maclean, Jr., John - The Inauguration of the Rev. John Maclean, D.D., Tenth President of the College of New Jersey, Wednesday, June 28, 1854 (1854)

Marquis, David Calhoun - Addresses at the Inauguration of Rev. David C. Marquis, D.D., as Professor of New Testament Literature and Exegesis, and of Rev. Herrick Johnson, D.D., LL.D., as Professor of Sacred Rhetoric and Pastoral Theology, in the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of the Northwest, Chicago, Illinois (1884)

McAfee, Cleland Boyd - The Westminster Confession of Faith and the Present Task of the Church (1913)

McAllister, James Gray - The Book Pre-Eminent (1905-1906)
- Our Trustworthy Bible: On the Occasion of his Inauguration as Professor of English Bible and Homiletics in Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, May 9, 1926 (1926)

McClure, Sr., James Gore King - Exercises in Connection with the Inauguration of James G.K. McClure, D.D. LL. D. as President of McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, Illinois (1906)
- Historical Address Delivered at the Inauguration of Herbert McComb Moore as President of Lake Forest University (1921)

McCormick Theological Seminary - Inaugural Addresses at the Opening of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of the North West, Chicago, Illinois (1860)

McCosh, James - Inauguration of James McCosh, D.D., LL.D., as President of the College of New Jersey, Princeton, October 27, 1868 (1868)

McGill, Alexander Taggart - An Inaugural Address, Delivered Before the Board of Directors, at Their Meeting in November, 1842 (1843)
- Discourses at the Inauguration of the Rev. Alexander T. M'Gill, D.D. (1854)

McIlwaine, Richard - Inaugural Address (1883, 1908)

McMaster, Erasmus Darwin - A Discourse Delivered November 7th, 1838, on the Occasion of the Author’s Inauguration as President of Hanover College, Indiana (1838)
- The Relations Between Religion and Academic Education: An Address at the Author’s Inauguration as President of Miami University, Ohio (1845)

McPhail, George Wilson - Inaugural Address (1858)

McPheeters, William Marcellus - A Recently Proposed Test of Canonicity (1891)

Miller, Samuel - The Duty of the Church to Take Measures for Providing An Able and Faithful Ministry: A Sermon at the Inauguration of Archibald Alexander (1812)

Moffat, James David - Proceedings and Addresses at the Inauguration of Rev. James D. Moffat ... President of Washington and Jefferson College, in the Town Hall, Washington, Pa., June 20th, 1882 (1882)

Moore, Walter William - Inaugural Address (1905)

Morris, Edward Dafydd and Nelson, Henry Addison - Inaugural Discourses, of Professors Morris and Nelson, Delivered at Lane Theological Seminary (1868)

Morrison, Sr., Robert Hall - The Inaugural Address of the Rev. R.H. Morrison, D.D. (1838)

Nevin, John Williamson - Addresses Delivered at the Inauguration of Rev. J.W. Nevin, D.D., as Professor of Theology in the Theological Seminary of the German Reformed Church, Mercersburg, PA, May 20th, 1840 (1840)

Patton, Francis Landey - Addresses at the Induction of Rev. Francis L. Patton into “The Cyrus H. McCormick Professorship of Didactic and Polemic Theology,” in the Presbyterian Theological Seminary in the North-West (1873)
- Christian Theology and Current Thought: An Inaugural Address by Professor Francis L. Patton, D.D. (1879)
- Inaugural Address at Princeton College (1888)
- Theological Encyclopedia (1903, 1904)

Paxton, William Miller - Inaugural Discourse as Professor of Ecclesiastical, Homiletical and Pastoral Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary (1884, 1887)

Plumer, William Swan - Addresses Delivered at the Inauguration of Rev. Wm. S. Plumer, D.D. as Professor of Didactic and Pastoral Theology in the Western Theological Seminary (1854)
- The Right Temper for a Student of God's Word - Inaugural Address at Columbia Theological Seminary (1868)

Pratt, Charles Henry - Effective Evangelism in the Life of the Church (1925)

Purves, George Tybout - Inauguration of George Tybout Purves, D.D. (1892)
- St. Paul and Inspiration (1893)

Redman, John - Inaugural Address to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia (1786, 1887)

Reed, Richard Clark - How to Make Our Brief Course in Church History Most Profitable: Inaugural Address (1899)

Rice, John Holt - Inaugural Discourse at Union Theological Seminary (1824)

Rice, Nathan Lewis - Inaugural Address at the Opening of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of the North West (1860)

Rice, Jr., Theron Hall - An Ideal Course in the English Bible (1909)

Roberts, William Charles - Addresses Delivered at the Inauguration of Rev. William C. Roberts, D.D., LLD., as President of Lake Forest University, June 22, 1887 (1887)

Roberts, William Henry - Addresses Delivered at the Lane Theological Seminary, of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., on the Occasion of the Inauguration of the Rev. William H. Roberts, D.D., as Professor of Practical Theology (1887)

Robinson, William Childs - The Columbia Tradition (1928)

Schaff, David Schley - Progress and Personality in Church History: An Inaugural Address (1898)
- The Closing Century of the Middle Ages: An Inaugural Address (1904)

Schaff, Philip - The Principle of Protestantism as Related to the Present State of the Church (1845)
- The Theology For Our Age and Country (1872)

Scott, William McKendree - Inaugural Address at the Opening of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of the North West (1860)

Scovel, Sylvester Fithian - Addresses at the Inauguration of Rev. S.F. Scovel, D.D., as President of the University of Wooster, October 24th, 1883 (1883)

Shedd, William Greenough Thayer - The Nature and Importance of a Natural Rhetoric: An Address, Delivered on the Occasion of His Inauguration to the Chair of Sacred Rhetoric and Pastoral Theology, in the Theological Seminary at Auburn, June 16, 1852 (1852)
- The Nature and Influence of the Historic Spirit: An Inaugural Discourse (1854)
- The Charge and Inaugural Address Delivered on Occasion of the Induction of Rev. W.G.T. Shedd, D.D., as Professor of Biblical Literature in the Union Theological Seminary, New York, January 11, 1864 (1864)

Skinner, Sr., Thomas Harvey - The Elements of Power in Public Speaking: An Address (1833)

Slosser, Gaius Jackson - Inaugural Address of Dr. Slosser at Western Theological Seminary (1930)

Smith, Asa Dodge - An Address Delivered at the Inauguration of the Author as President of Dartmouth College, November 18, 1863 (1863)

Smith, Henry Boynton - Nature and Worth of the Science of Church History: An Inaugural Address, Delivered Before the Directors of the Union Theological Seminary, New York, Feb. 12, 1851 (1851)
- The Idea of Christian Theology as a System: An Inaugural Address (1855)

Smith, Jonathan Ritchie - The Place of Homiletics in the Training of the Minister (1915)

Snowden, James Henry - Inaugural Address: Theology and Life (1913)

Sparrow, Patrick Jones - The Inaugural Address of the Rev. P.J. Sparrow, A.M., Pronounced at His Inauguration as Professor of Languages in Davidson College, North Carolina, August 2, 1838 (1838)

Stanton, Robert Lodowick - Addresses, Delivered on Thursday, December 18, 1851, on the Occasion of the Inauguration of Rev. Robert L. Stanton, as President of Oakland College, Miss. (1852)
- The True Mission of the Church (1863)
- Addresses Delivered on the Occasion of the Inauguration of Rev. R.L. Stanton, D.D., as President of Miami University, June 27, 1867 (1867)

Stowe, Calvin Ellis - The Right Interpretation of the Sacred Scriptures: The Helps and Hindrances: An Inaugural Discourse (1853)

Stryker, Melancthon Woolsey - The Inauguration of Melancthon Woolsey Stryker, D.D., LL.D. as the Ninth President of Hamilton College, in the Presbyterian Church, Clinton, N.Y. on Tuesday, January 17, 1893 (1893)

Tadlock, James Doak - Materials of History (1889)

Thomas, Thomas Ebenezer - An Address, on the Occasion of the Author's Inauguration as President of Hanover College, Indiana, Delivered March 28, 1850 (1850)

Thompson, Jr., William Taliaferro - Inaugural Address — Religious Education (1922)

Thornwell, James Henley - Inaugural Discourse (1857, 1871)

Tuttle, Joseph Farrand - Address of Rev. James H. Johnston at the Inauguration of Rev. Joseph F. Tuttle, D.D., as President of Wabash College: and the Inaugural Discourse of the President Delivered July 24th, 1862 (1862)

Van Zandt, Abraham Brooks - Inauguration of the Rev. A.B. Van Zandt, D.D., as Professor of Didactic and Polemic Theology in the Seminary of the Reformed Church in America, at New Brunswick, New Jersey, September 24, 1872 (1872)

Vos, Geerhardus - Inauguration of the Rev. Geerhardus Vos, Ph.D., D.D., as Professor of Biblical Theology (1894)

Warfield, Benjamin Breckinridge - Inauguration of Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield at Western Seminary (1880)
                                                                       - Inauguration of Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield at Princeton Seminary (1888)

Warfield, Ethelbert Dudley - Inauguration of Ethelbert Dudley Warfield, A.M., LL.B, as President of Miami University (1889)
- Addresses on the Occasion of the Inauguration of Ethelbert Dudley Warfield, LL. D., as President of Lafayette College (1891)

Webb, Robert Alexander - The Old Theology and the New (1910-1911)

Whaling, Thornton C. - Inauguration of Rev. Thornton Whaling, D.D., LL.D., as President of the Columbia Theological Seminary, on May 7th, 1912 (1912)

Wilson, Sr., Joseph Ruggles - Inaugural Address (1871)
- Inaugural Address Before the Board of Directors of the S.W.P. University, in June, 1885 (1886)

Wilson, Robert Dick - The Lower Criticism of the Old Testament as a Preparation for the Higher Criticism: Inaugural Address of ... Robert Dick Wilson ... as Professor of Semitic Philology and the Old Testament Criticism: Princeton Theological Seminary, September 21, 1900 (1901)

Wilson, Thomas Woodrow - Princeton For the Nation’s Service (1902)

Wood, James - Exercises Connected with the Inauguration of Rev. James Wood, D.D., as President of Hanover College, Ind., August 3d, 1859 (1859)

Woodrow, James - Inaugural Address at Columbia Seminary (1862)

Yeomans, John William - Inaugural Address at LaFayette College (1841)

Young, John Clarke - Address of Rev. John C. Young, Delivered at His Inauguration as President of Centre College, Danville, Nov. 18, 1830 (1830)

 Zenos, Andrew Constantinides - The Relations of New Testament Study to the Present Age: Inaugural Address of Rev. Andrew C. Zenos, D.D., Hosmer Professor of New Testament Exegesis, January 16, 1889 (1889)