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Modern Theology Reading Group
Modern Theology Reading Group
A weekly discussion of a chosen theological/philosophical text, with voluntary presentations by group members and some steady direction by people who might have a little more experience with the topic. The first book for this term is Charles Taylor's Ethics of Authenticity, which is a painless and short introduction into the debate over the vices and...
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Modern Theology Reading Group
Modern Theology Reading Group
A weekly discussion of a chosen theological/philosophical text, with voluntary presentations by group members and some steady direction by people who might have a little more experience with the topic. The first book for this term is Charles Taylor's Ethics of Authenticity, which is a painless and short introduction into the debate over the vices and...
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Modern Theology Reading Group
Modern Theology Reading Group
A weekly discussion of a chosen theological/philosophical text, with voluntary presentations by group members and some steady direction by people who might have a little more experience with the topic. The first book for this term is Charles Taylor's Ethics of Authenticity, which is a painless and short introduction into the debate over the vices and...
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Aquinas Seminar Series: Prof John Finley on The Metaphysics of Pregnancy: Matter, Individuation, and Communion
Aquinas Seminar Series: Prof John Finley on The Metaphysics of Pregnancy: Matter, Individuation, and Communion
Thomas Aquinas views the human being as integrally composed of spiritual soul and matter. As in all earthly species, matter is responsible for individuation: for the fact that many instances of ‘human’ can exist. Bodiliness can thus be viewed primarily as something that separates us from each other. Yet no less true for Aquinas are...
Gender and Patterns of Intolerance in Medieval Britain and Ireland
Gender and Patterns of Intolerance in Medieval Britain and Ireland
A range of scholars including John Boswell ('Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality'), R.I.Moore ('The Formation of a Persecuting Society') and Geraldine Heng ['The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages') have noted changing patterns of intolerance during the European Middle Ages. The study of these topics is also deeply influenced by contemporary attitudes. Dr Clare Downahm's paper is an exploratory look at changing attitudes towards women and power in the tenth century.
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Modern Theology Reading Group
Modern Theology Reading Group
A weekly discussion of a chosen theological/philosophical text, with voluntary presentations by group members and some steady direction by people who might have a little more experience with the topic. The first book for this term is Charles Taylor's Ethics of Authenticity, which is a painless and short introduction into the debate over the vices and...
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Aquinas Seminar Series: Prof Peter Hampson on ‘Appreciating the fine and discerning the good: toward a theology of affordance’
Aquinas Seminar Series: Prof Peter Hampson on ‘Appreciating the fine and discerning the good: toward a theology of affordance’
People are situated as well as related and embodied creatures; we inhabit physical, social, moral and spiritual worlds each with their action potentials or affordances. Virtue acquisition is thus partly an habitual and social process entailing increasing sensitivity to the moral affordances of situations, the fineness and fittingness of accompanying actions, and their outcomes. It...
Modern Theology Reading Group
Modern Theology Reading Group
A weekly discussion of a chosen theological/philosophical text, with voluntary presentations by group members and some steady direction by people who might have a little more experience with the topic. The first book for this term is Charles Taylor's Ethics of Authenticity, which is a painless and short introduction into the debate over the vices and...
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Evil and The Myths We Live By – Seminar: Mark Hocknull
Evil and The Myths We Live By – Seminar: Mark Hocknull
Abstract: An historical analysis of the concept of evil reveals a high degree of historical relativism in what has counted as evil at different times. Though the classical tradition understood evil in metaphysical terms, since the Enlightenment evil has been seen as a human, moral phenomenon. Plato, and following him St Augustine, saw evil in terms...
The Condemnations of 1277 and the Origins of Modern Science
The Condemnations of 1277 and the Origins of Modern Science
Special Lecture by Dr William Carroll. A joint event organised by the Aquinas Institute and the Ian Ramsey Centre, University of Oxford.
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Annual Aquinas Colloquium: “Aquinas and the Development of Law”
Annual Aquinas Colloquium: “Aquinas and the Development of Law”
AQUINAS INSTITUTE ANNUAL COLLOQUIUM "Development" conveys notions of improving, refining, advancing - change for the better. While Aquinas did not think that eternal wisdom could improve, he did hold - perhaps surprisingly - that natural and divine law could develop in some fashion. The Colloquium will explore the development of human, natural, and divine law...