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Elizabeth Barrett Browning – The Christian Literary Imagination Series

The Christian Literary Imagination Series Over 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...

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Pope Benedict XVI’s Spe Salvi – Reading Group

Reading Group: Pope Benedict XVI's Spe Salvi Over 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. The discussion will be led by Edward Hadas, Research Fellow at Blackfriars...

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Pope Benedict XVI’s Spe Salvi – Reading Group

Reading Group: Pope Benedict XVI's Spe Salvi Over 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. The discussion will be led by Edward Hadas, Research Fellow at Blackfriars...

Michael Drayton, Faire Matilda Poems – The Christian Literary Imagination Series

The Christian Literary Imagination Series Over 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...

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Pope Benedict XVI’s Spe Salvi – Reading Group

Reading Group: Pope Benedict XVI's Spe Salvi Over 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. The discussion will be led by Edward Hadas, Research Fellow at Blackfriars...

Women’s Voices in a Weary World

“The Women Are Coming” announces a new YouTube video over upbeat music, introducing 23 female world leaders in rapid-fire succession, from Barbados to Bangladesh, Norway to Namibia, bookended by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and American Vice President Kamala Harris. But have women truly arrived where they want to be and need to be: in positions...

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Pope Benedict XVI’s Spe Salvi – Reading Group

Reading Group: Pope Benedict XVI's Spe Salvi Over 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. The discussion will be led by Edward Hadas, Research Fellow at Blackfriars...

Flannery O’Connor – The Christian Literary Imagination Series

The Christian Literary Imagination Series Over 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...

Being Without Borders: What does Fratelli Tutti mean for British Society

The Las Casas Institute  in partnership with St Mary's University and the Pastoral Review are holding a two-part online symposium on Fratelli Tutti. In the first part of the event, the Las Casas Institute is hosting a Zoom panel discussion entitled “Being Without Borders: What does Fratelli Tutti mean for British Society?” Inter-faith dialogue: Professor...

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Pope Benedict XVI’s Spe Salvi – Reading Group

Reading Group: Pope Benedict XVI's Spe Salvi Over 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. The discussion will be led by Edward Hadas, Research Fellow at Blackfriars...