Liam McDonnell (Blackfriars), ‘On Studying Aquinas in an Aquinas-like Manner’ Beginning in the twelfth century, scholastic theologians started to write in a new genre: the summa. The stated intention behind the creation of the summa was, in the words of Hugh of St Victor, to furnish a unified account of 'all theology' in one book. This newly...
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Dr Clare Broome Saunders, Senior Tutor, Blackfriars Hall Phoebe Anna Traquair (1852–1936) was one of the leading contributors to the British Arts and Crafts movement, and one of the first three women elected to the Royal Scottish Academy. Born Phoebe Anna Moss in Dublin, she was inspired by childhood visits to the medieval manuscripts housed at Trinity College,...
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On Monday 2nd February, the Oxford Thomistic Institute will be hosting Dr Sebastian Brock, of Wolfson College, Oxford, to speak on Giving a Voice to Mary in Syriac Liturgical Tradition. The lecture will begin at 7.30pm in the Aula at Blackfriars, and will be followed by refreshments. All are welcome. About the speaker Sebastian Brock... |
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'A true ecological approach always becomes a social approach ... so as to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor' — Laudato Si', 49 Our Director at the Las Casas Institute, Hugo Slim, will be giving the keynote at the Annual Trócaire Lecture at St Patrick's College, Maynooth. Seán Farrell the...
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Fr Michael Sherwin OP (Angelicum), ‘Nietzsche or St Thomas: Thoughts on Alasdair MacIntyre’ Part of this term’s lecture series, Thursdays at 5pm unless otherwise noted, presenting the breadth of Thomistic thought and its applications. upcoming events in this series Wk 5 Jan Bentz (Blackfriars), ‘Aquinas and the Real Distinction: Historical-Philosophical Notes’ Wk 6 Jack Norman (Blackfriars), ‘McCabe’s Social Ontology:... |
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A Thomistic case for the rule of rescue as a normative principle in healthcare allocation decision-making The rule of rescue (RR) describes the tendency in healthcare to prioritise treatment for identified patients facing severe immediate need over prevention benefiting unidentified/statistical lives. It is criticised by health economists for preventing cost-effective healthcare allocation. Accordingly, the National... |
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Jan Bentz (Blackfriars), ‘Aquinas and the Real Distinction: Historical-Philosophical Notes’ Part of this term’s lecture series, Thursdays at 5pm unless otherwise noted, presenting the breadth of Thomistic thought and its applications. upcoming events in this series Wk 6 Jack Norman (Blackfriars), ‘McCabe’s Social Ontology: Sin, Sacraments, and the New Left’ Wk 8 Fr Richard Conrad OP (Blackfriars), ‘“Faith Believes, nor... |
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This seminar brings together emerging scholars of historical ecologies, placing them in conversation to reflect on the relationship humanity has and had with the natural world. By tracing how human–environment relations have been imagined, governed, and lived in the past, the seminar foregrounds nature not as a distant backdrop but as a proximate and entangled neighbour. Responding... |
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On Monday 23rd February, the Oxford Thomistic Institute will be hosting Prof Rebecca Rist, of the University of Reading, to speak on Pope or Antipope?: Schism and the Medieval Papacy. The lecture will begin at 7.30pm in the Aula at Blackfriars, and will be followed by refreshments. All are welcome. About the speaker Professor Rebecca... |
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Jack Norman (Blackfriars), ‘McCabe’s Social Ontology: Sin, Sacraments, and the New Left’ Herbert McCabe OP’s thought was shaped by and phrased in Marxist social theory, and he shows undeniable sympathy to Marxism. This has been picked up by several recent writings on McCabe. However, read in context, I will show that McCabe gave a critical account... |
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Michelle Castelletti FRSA, New College, Oxford, Director of the Oxford Festival of the Arts.
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