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We talk Locke, we act Hegel: The Nature of Modern Freedom Public lecture by Edward Hadas Everyone wants to be free, but modern people often feel like cogs in an oppressive social machine. What is going wrong? Part of the answer is philosophical – the inevitable failure of John Locke’s individualism and the seemingly inevitable... |
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Human Dignity Reading Group Everyone knows that a "balance of terror" is a poor substitute for the true peace of human flourishing. Pope Paul VI said, "No more war!, war never again". How can Christians help bridge the gap between the dire reality of actual and threatened military destruction and the Christian aspiration for the... |
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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...
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The 10th Anscombe Memorial Lecture The lecture is an annual lecture in honour of the philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe who taught at Oxford and Cambridge. This year's Lecture will be delivered by Dr Maureen Condic, on the subject of identical twinning and the status of the human embryo. Dr Maureen Condic is Associate Professor of Neurobiology... |
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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... |
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This event is part of 'The Future of the Humanities' project organised by the Las Casas Institute and Georgetown University. Julia Gillard, former Prime Minister of Australia, is giving a lecture on 'Women in Public Life: Transforming a Culture' followed by a Round Table Discussion with Baroness Mary Goudie and Baroness Margaret Prosser to be... |
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Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican and Protestant Perspectives Book launch Dignity is a fundamental aspect of our lives, yet one we rarely pause to consider; our understandings of dignity, on individual, collective and philosophical perspectives, shape how we think, act and relate to others. This book offers an historical survey of how dignity has been understood... |
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Human Dignity Reading Group Everyone knows that a "balance of terror" is a poor substitute for the true peace of human flourishing. Pope Paul VI said, "No more war!, war never again". How can Christians help bridge the gap between the dire reality of actual and threatened military destruction and the Christian aspiration for the... |
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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,... |
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The Institute, in collaboration with Georgetown University, is holding a series of talks on 'Christian Shakespeare: Question Mark' as part of The Future of the Humanities Project and The Humanities Initiative. The second talk of the series: Dr Beatrice Groves, Trinity College, Shakespeare and the Psalms Prof Michael Collins, Georgetown, Shakespeare and the Parables... |
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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...
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