In his recent encyclical, Fratelli tutti, Pope Francis presents a 're-envisaging the social role of property'. While the Pope restates and develops Catholic social teaching (CST) on this point, the fundamentals of this teaching are perennial. While affirming the right to private property, CST underscores divine purposes integral to this right. These purposes contextualize this right...
Lockdowns, gigantic fiscal deficits, tough legal restrictions and requirements: rich and poor nations have responded dramatically to the pandemic. Were these public health measures implemented in just ways? Edward Hadas will explain how Catholic Social Teaching can help answer that question. Edward Hadas is a Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford. His book Counsels of Imperfections: Thinking Through Catholic Social...
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...
What should economists study? Common answers include markets, money, scarcity, productivity, prosperity, distribution, and statistics. All of those are relevant, but Edward Hadas will propose a more radical starting point: the Great Exchange of gifts: of human labour to the world and of consumption goods and services from the world that labour has humanised. Edward...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoWRqNyspJw&t=3s A Christian vision of 'development' Traditional approaches to social and economic 'development' are being questioned in a world where hundreds of millions of people live in extreme poverty, while humankind also consumes beyond its environmental limits. Can Christianity offer both a critique of mainstream approaches to development, and a more positive vision of human...
Nationalism, populism, and resurgent racism have combined in a toxic political and cultural stew around the world to challenge established patterns of civic dialogue and interrupt the natural evolution of democracy. In response, monuments are toppling, schools and buildings are being renamed, and historical memory itself has come under review and regulation in some countries....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwwXwavssmg Blackfriars Oxford is hosting a panel discussion of A Christian Approach to Corporate Religious Liberty, a new book by Blackfriars JRF, Edward A. David, featuring: Brett Bertucio, University of Wisconsin-Madison Edward A. David, University of Oxford Robert J. Matava, Christendom College Moderated by Rev Dr Bruno Clifton OP, this event is sponsored by the...
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...
Poverty and the Pandemic in Oxford Blackfriars Poverty in Britain Group is holding its next event online, in partnership with the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice We welcome a panel of speakers to discuss the impact the Covid-19 pandemic has had on people experiencing poverty in Oxford, and how the situation has highlighted existing...
Panel Discussion series relating to Free Speech "No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise," said the late Winston Churchill in 1947. "Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried . . ." Join the panel as they consider...