To celebrate the canonisation of John Henry Newman, Bishop Robert Barron gives a lecture on "Newman and the New Evangelisation" in the Church where Newman gave some of his greatest sermons. You are invited to fill the very pews which were once crowded with undergraduates and churchmen to hear Newman preach, and to listen to...
Traditional Christian theology affirms that Jesus of Nazareth is both truly God and truly human. This leads to theological questions about the predication of human and divine attributes to the person of Christ. Did God suffer and die on a cross? Is this man the creator of the world? By examining the traditional 'rules of...
A Seminar on Christ's Knowledge Thomas Aquinas's theory of the knowledge of Christ may seem to have little relevance for modern historical-critical study of the figure of Jesus of Nazareth. In his mature work, represented emblematically by the third part of the Summa Theologiae, Aquinas presents the knowledge of Christ in a fourfold descending perspective...
All sorts of people desire to have a different kind of life. Christians propose that Jesus Christ offers the grace to have a life very different from what we have at birth. St. Thomas Aquinas, following Scripture and witnesses in the Christian tradition, uses deification language to describe this different kind of life. For example,...
The Thomistic Institute are very pleased to welcome Fr Romanus Cessario to Oxford. Fr Romanus Cessario, OP completed doctoral studies at the University of Fribourg and continues to carry on research in psychology and moral theology. He is author of more than a hundred articles in theology and related fields and has published eighteen books...
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...
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...
Many enthusiasts of theistic evolution willingly accept Aquinas’s distinction between primary and secondary causes, to describe theologically “the mechanics” of evolutionary transformation. They claim that God invites and enables contingent entities to participate in his divine act of creating new natural kinds. However, Aquinas clearly states “it is impossible for any creature to create, either...
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...
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...