Human Dignity and Mother Earth: Historic and Contemporary Sources in Conversation for a Socio-Ecological Ethic The seminar opens with each panellist giving a short reflection on the confluence of respect for the human person and care for the larger natural world. With the aid of an expert moderator, Professor Celia Deane-Drummond, they enter into conversation...
Tradition or Pottage? Reflections on Catholic Social Doctrine Prof Russell Hittinger is the Senior Fellow in the Lumen Christi Institute at the University of Chicago, and a Visiting Scholar there in the Committee on Social Thought. This term he is a Visiting Professor in the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, Berkeley. He is...
The Institute, in collaboration with Georgetown University, is holding a series of talks on 'Christian Shakespeare: Question Mark' as part of The Future of the Humanities Project and The Humanities Initiative. The third talk of the series: Dr Yvette Khoury, Blackfriars, Nuns and Friars in Shakespeare Clare Asquith, Literary Historian and Critic, Shakespeare,...
Evolution and Human Origins: Theological and Philosophical Reflections Seminar series 30 January “The Goal-Directedness of Evolution: Thomistic Perspectives on a Controversial Question” Dr Simon Kopf (King’s College, London) 6 February “The Theology of Original Sin and Human Origins” Dr Richard Conrad, OP (Blackfriars) 13 February “Hylomorphism and Evolution in Four Dimensions” Dr Daniel De Haan...
Come and find out more about Blackfriars On Saturday 1 February you are warmly invited to drinks in the priory after the 6.15pm Saturday Vigil Mass. The prior will give a short talk entitled Finding Hope in an Uncertain World. This will be an opportunity to meet the community, tour the priory and the new academic...