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SUMMARY:Counsels of Imperfection: Thinking Through Catholic Social Teaching
DESCRIPTION:Book launch\nCounsels of Imperfection: Thinking Through Catholic Social Teaching by Edward Hadas\n  \nFor more than a century\, the teaching authority of the Catholic Church has attempted to walk along with the modern world\, criticizing what is bad and praising what is good. Counsels of Imperfection described the current state of that fairly bumpy journey. \nThe book starts with an introduction to ever-changing modernity and the unchanging Christian understanding of human nature and society. Then it moves to areas of concern for the Social Teaching: a) economic issues\, including a careful delineation of the Catholic response\, past and present\, to socialism and capitalism; b) government\, including Church and State\, war and peace\, and quick takes on democracy\, human rights\, the welfare state\, crimes and punishments (including the death penalty)\, anti-Semitism\, and migration; c) ecology\, including a discussion of the human role in creation and an enthusiastic analysis of Francis’s “technocratic paradigm”; d) family teaching\, which presents the social aspects of the Church’s sexual teaching; and e) a historical overview and the ambiguous Catholic appreciation of the modern idea of progress. \nFor each topic\, Counsels of Imperfection provides biblical\, historical and a broad philosophical background. Thomas Aquinas appears often\, but so does G. W. F Hegel. The goal is not only to explain what the Church really says\, but also how it got to its current position and who it is arguing with. In the spirit of a doctrine that is always in development\, Counsels of Imperfection points out both strong-points and imperfections in the teaching. \nThe book’s author\, Edward Hadas is a Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall\, Oxford. His book Counsels of Imperfections: Thinking Through Catholic Social Teaching will be published in the autumn by Catholic University of America Press. He is also a financial journalist who writes regularly for Reuters Breakingviews. \nStephen Bullivant\, sociologist-theologian and author of Mass Exodus: Catholic Disaffiliation in Britain and America since Vatican II\, will respond. \nThe online event is free and open to all. Registration is required.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/counsels-of-imperfection-thinking-through-catholic-social-teaching/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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SUMMARY:Pope Benedict XVI's Spe Salvi - Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Reading Group: Pope Benedict XVI’s Spe Salvi\n\n\nOver six weeks the reading group will discuss this too often neglected encyclical. Topics include the nature of specifically Christian hope\, the meaning of death\, and the secularisation and loss of hope in the modern world. \nThe encyclical can be accessed here. \nThe discussion will be led by Edward Hadas\, Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall\, Oxford. His book Counsels of Imperfections: Thinking Through Catholic Social Teaching was published in the autumn by Catholic University of America Press. He is also a financial journalist who writes regularly for Reuters Breakingviews. \nParticipation in the group is free and open to all. Registration is required.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/pope-benedict-xvis-spe-salvi-reading-group/2021-03-03/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:Early Readings of Milton’s Eden and the Erotics in Conjugal Chastity – The Christian Literary Imagination Series
DESCRIPTION:The Christian Literary Imagination Series\n \nOver the course of the 2020-2021 academic year\, the Future of the Humanities Project is sponsoring a series of webinars on the Christian literary imagination in collaboration with Blackfriars Hall\, University of Oxford. The ‘Christian Literary Imagination Series’ will explore the role and function of the arts and humanities in the development of the individual and society. \nThe series features talks by distinguished scholars from both sides of the Atlantic discussing authors or works from Shakespeare to Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Each speaker aims to examine the term ‘Christian imagination’ through a discussion of a particular writer\, or an aspect of the term. The hour-long virtual events will be followed by a Q & As chaired by Professor Michael Scott. \nIn this event of the series Professor Noël. K. Sugimura will explore early readings of Milton’s depiction of prelapsarian love in Paradise Lost. In particular\, she will reflect on its focus on the experience of conjugal chastity as both a spiritual and physical experience. She will also consider how early Christian readers of Milton help to shed new interpretative light on the power of the Christian imagination animating his account of connubial bliss\, as well as the centrality of eros to the epic. \nThis event is sponsored by the Future of the Humanities Project\, the Georgetown Humanities Initiative\, the Georgetown Master’s Program in the Engaged and Public Humanities\, Campion Hall (University of Oxford)\, and the Las Casas Institute\, Blackfriars Hall.  \nThis event is free and hosted on Zoom by Georgetown University. \n\nProfessor Noël. K. Sugimura is an official fellow and tutor in English at St John’s College and associate professor in the Faculty of English at the University of Oxford. Her research and teaching addresses the intersection of philosophy\, intellectual history\, and literary studies\, particularly in early modern and eighteenth-century literature and culture. Her first book\, Matter of Glorious Trial: Spiritual and Material Substance in Paradise Lost (2009)\, was the first book to reassess the common critical consensus surrounding Milton’s monist materialism. She has also published widely on other authors and is currently working on two books on Milton and the eighteenth century alongside an edition of William Empson’s Milton’s God for Oxford University Press. \nProfessor Michael Scott (moderator) is Senior Dean and Fellow of Blackfriars Hall\, college adviser for postgraduate students\, and a Member of the Las Casas Institute. He also serves as senior adviser to the president at Georgetown University. Scott was on the editorial board which relaunched Critical Survey from Oxford University Press. Scott previously served as the pro vice chancellor at De Montfort University and founding vice chancellor of Wrexham Glyndwr University.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/early-readings-of-miltons-eden-and-the-erotics-in-conjugal-chastity-the-christian-literary-imagination-series/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:Shakespeare - The Christian Literary Imagination Series
DESCRIPTION:The Christian Literary Imagination Series\n \nOver the course of the 2020-2021 academic year\, the Future of the Humanities Project is sponsoring a series of webinars on the Christian literary imagination in collaboration with Blackfriars Hall\, University of Oxford. The ‘Christian Literary Imagination Series’ will explore the role and function of the arts and humanities in the development of the individual and society. \nThe series features talks by distinguished scholars from both sides of the Atlantic discussing authors or works from Shakespeare to Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Each speaker aims to examine the term ‘Christian imagination’ through a discussion of a particular writer\, or an aspect of the term. The hour-long virtual events will be followed by a Q & As chaired by Professor Michael Scott. \nIn this event of the series Rev Dr Paul Edmondson\, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust\, talks about Shakespeare. \nThis event is free and hosted on Zoom by Georgetown University. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/shakespeare-the-christian-literary-imagination-series/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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