The Oxford Chapter of the Thomistic Institute, in collaboration with The Aquinas Institute, welcome Prof Ryan Meade This lecture will discuss the vocation of a lawyer from the perspective of virtue, specifically the four cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance. These virtues are the hinges of happiness for every person, but they play...
Passions and the Life of Virtue: Taming the Menagerie Within Sr Catherine Joseph Droste, OP Professor and Vice-Dean of Theology at the Pontifical University of St Thomas in Rome (The Angelicum) The last decades have witnessed renewed interest in virtue and virtue ethics, but an authentic study of virtue requires self-knowledge and a healthy understanding...
Lecture by Prof Timothy Pawl
Fr Dominic Legge, O.P., Director of the Thomistic Institute will speak for a joint lecture hosted by the Las Casas Institute, the Aquinas Institute, and the Oxford Chapter of the Thomistic Institute on the theme, "It's My Right!": Understanding Natural Rights and the Purpose of Politics.
A conference organised by Prof Piotr Roszak and Dr Jörgen Vijgen, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun and co-sponsored by the Aquinas Institute Donations requested at door to cover lunch. Programme: Piotr Roszak, UMK Torun: ‘Christ’s Will to Die and Our Salvation in Aquinas’s Super Psalmum 21’ Mark Johnson, Marquette University: ‘Aquinas’s Scriptum on 1 Cor 7: The Scripture as...
Join us for a day event on the Liturgy at St Dominic's Church - The Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary. Encountering the infinite: Beauty as a theological category in St Thomas - Fr Lawrence Lew, OP Beyond Beauty: The Importance of the Sacred in the Liturgy - Fr Uwe Michael Lang, Cong. Orat. Liturgical...
The right to conscientious objection seems increasingly to conflict with rights to certain services and medical procedures. Should society curtail conscience’s rights? Or should society nurture the skill of making responsible moral judgments, which involves granting people space in which to learn to exercise it well? The sponsoring institutions are very grateful to Baroness Nuala O’Loan for agreeing to...
JOINT RESEARCH SEMINAR Janice Chik (Aquinas Institute): 'Action Descriptions and the Specification of Goodness: Contemporary Development of bonum ex integra causa' Michael Wee (Anscombe Bioethics Centre): 'Are Virtues Menatal Causes? Addressing the Situationism Debate' Registration (free of charge) admin@bioethics.org.uk
A Study week led by a team of Dominican Friars and Sisters in collaboration with the Benedictine monks of Buckfast Abbey offering a systematic overview of Catholic Theology aimed at university students and young adults (18-35). Using the Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas as a guide, talks and discussions will cover: The Trinity, Creation, The Human...
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...