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SUMMARY:St: Poetry Reading and Discussion
DESCRIPTION:The Christian Literary Imagination Series\n \nOver 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 the development of the individual and society. \nThe series features talks by distinguished scholars from both sides of the Atlantic discussing authors or works from Shakespeare to Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Each speaker aims to examine the term ‘Christian imagination’ through a discussion of a particular writer\, or an aspect of the term. The hour-long virtual events will be followed by a Q & As chaired by Professor Michael Scott. \nIn this event of the series Mary Anne Clark\, a contemporary Christian poet and scholar researching rhyme in Shakespeare’s theatre\, will read and discuss her poems in a discussion with Michael Scott. They will also consider the term “Christian literary imagination” and its implications for her work. \nThis event is free and hosted on Zoom by Georgetown University. \nMary Anne (Molly) Clark is reading for a D.Phil. in English at Merton College\, Oxford\, researching rhyme in Shakespeare’s theatre. Her poems have appeared in publications including The Mays\, Oxford Poetry\, The Scores\, Stand Magazine\, bathmagg\, and several anthologies from the Emma Press. She has performed her poetry at events including National Poetry Day Live at the Southbank\, the Ledbury Festival\, and the October Gallery’s 40th Anniversary Celebration. Poetry prizes include the Newdigate Prize in 2016 and second prize in the Manchester Cathedral Poetry Competition\, judged by Malika Booker\, in 2018. Her pamphlet\, St\, is forthcoming with Broken Sleep Books. \nProfessor Michael Scott (moderator) is Senior Dean\, Fellow of Blackfriars Hall\, the University of Oxford college adviser for postgraduate students\, and a Member of the Las Casas Institute. He also serves as senior adviser to the president at Georgetown University. Scott was on the Editorial Board which relaunched Critical Survey from Oxford University Press. Scott previously served as the pro vice chancellor at De Montfort University and founding vice chancellor of Wrexham Glyndwr University.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/st-poetry-reading-and-discussion/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute with Georgetown University":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210602T180000
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SUMMARY:Bite-sized Nuggets from Laudato Si'
DESCRIPTION:Discussion group\nPope Francis’s environmental encyclical is long and rich. Over seven weeks\, we will discuss some of its key sections. Likely topics include: the lessons of Francis of Assisi; the environment and human ecology; climate change and environmental conversion; and the technocratic paradigm. The group will be led by Edward Hadas\, Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall and author of Counsels of Imperfection: Thinking through Catholic Social Teaching. 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/bite-sized-nuggets-from-laudato-si-2021-06-02/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210603T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210603T180000
DTSTAMP:20260601T032057
CREATED:20210427T201005Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210427T201005Z
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SUMMARY:Anselm & Ralph of Battle A Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Anselm and his students on our relationship to non-human creatures\n\nAnselm’s friend and rival Ralph of Battle was arguably the most original theologian and philosopher of Lanfranc‘s circle\, alongside Gilbert Crispin. Prof Goebel is editing one of Ralph’s major works\, Meditatio Christiani de fide\, inspired by the Monologion and Boethius’ De fide catholica. Four MSS survive\, two of them in Oxford. Ralph’s anti-Anselmian claim that natural theology covers but a limited part of Christian theology\, and his rejection of Anselm’s proof of God’s existence in favour of a cosmological argument\, both seem to prefigure Aquinas. \nProf Dr Bernd Goebel (Faculty of Theology\, Fulda).
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/anselm-ralph-of-battle-a-lecture/
CATEGORIES:The Aquinas Institute
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ORGANIZER;CN="Aquinas Institute":MAILTO:aquinas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210607T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210607T123000
DTSTAMP:20260601T032057
CREATED:20210412T101404Z
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SUMMARY:Natural Law: Foundations & Applications
DESCRIPTION:A seminar series on Mondays of Trinity Term\, 2021\, from 11am-12.30pm on Zoom. \nWeek 1 – 26 April – Rev. Dr Richard Conrad OP (Blackfriars)\nNatural Law: Revealed and Discovered? Changeless and Developing? \nWeek 2 – 3 May – Will Nolan (Exeter)\nPractical Reason in Aquinas: New Natural Law without Baggage? \nWeek 3 – 10 May – Michael Wee (Blackfriars)\nConnatural Moral Knowledge: Anscombe and Maritain on Natural Law Epistemology \nWeek 4 – 17 May – Rose Brugger (Queen’s) & Nathan Elvidge (Blackfriars)\nRationality without Personhood?: A Thomistic Analysis of Recent Developments in Stem Cell Research \nWeek 5 – 24 May – Dr Dominic Burbidge (St Peter’s)\nNatural Law and Social Science Methodology \nWeek 7 – 7 June – Dr Jonathan Price (St Cross)\nIs There a Natural Law Jurisprudence?
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/natural-law-foundations-applications-2021-06-07/
CATEGORIES:The Aquinas Institute
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ORGANIZER;CN="Aquinas Institute":MAILTO:aquinas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210607T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210607T191500
DTSTAMP:20260601T032057
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SUMMARY:Philosophy meets Economics and Public Policy
DESCRIPTION:Four lectures by Dr Roberto Fumagalli\, Director of Philosophy\, Politics & Economics Programme\, King’s College London \nDr Fumagalli\, a visiting scholar at Blackfriars for Trinity Term 2021\, conducts research at the interface between philosophy\, economics and public policy.  He offers us four lectures growing out of his research\, which seeks:\n(a) to articulate and defend a reformed division of labour between philosophers\, economists and other empirical scientists in the ongoing attempt to define and measure well-being;\n(b) critically to assess the “principle of secular motivation” by refining current distinctions between religious\, secular and antireligious reasons;\n(c) to respond to the covid-related public health emergency by arguing against the use of lotteries and other randomization procedures for allocating scarce life-saving and other medical resources. \nThe lecture topics are:\n24 May – “A reformed division of labour for the science of well-being”\n31 May – “A more liberal public reason liberalism”\n7 June – “Preferences versus Opportunities: which conceptual foundation for normative welfare economics?”\n14 June – “Why we should not use randomization procedure to allocate scarce life-saving resources” \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/philosophy-meets-economics-and-public-policy-2021-06-07/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute,The Aquinas Institute
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210609T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210609T173000
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SUMMARY:Young Mothers Network - Panel discussion
DESCRIPTION:Marie Williams\, Coordinator of the Dominican Justice Office (a project of the Dominican Sisters\, Cabra)\, will present her work with the Young Mothers Network (YMN)\, a peer-support group for mothers seeking International Protection in Dublin. While the group was originally set up to specifically support young mothers\, consultations in Direct Provision Centres – where people seeking asylum are housed by the Irish government – revealed that it was mothers in general who are particularly isolated and vulnerable within the asylum process. Over the past six years\, the group members have developed trust and formed relationships through weekly meetings\, which have been held online since April of last year. Both in-person and online\, the meetings represent a safe space for the women to share their hopes and dreams\, and to support each other through the challenges they face. \nParticipants include: Ms Marie Williams\, Project Co-ordinator and Co-ordinator of the Dominican Justice Office; Fr Stephen Cummins O.P.\, Promoter of Justice and Peace\, Irish Dominican Province and Marie Redmond OP\, volunteer with the Dominican Justice Office. \nPlease note that these presentations will not be recorded for viewing later. \nOpen for all. Registration is free. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/young-mothers-network-panel-discussion/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210609T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210609T190000
DTSTAMP:20260601T032057
CREATED:20210422T095620Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210422T095949Z
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SUMMARY:Bite-sized Nuggets from Laudato Si'
DESCRIPTION:Discussion group\nPope Francis’s environmental encyclical is long and rich. Over seven weeks\, we will discuss some of its key sections. Likely topics include: the lessons of Francis of Assisi; the environment and human ecology; climate change and environmental conversion; and the technocratic paradigm. The group will be led by Edward Hadas\, Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall and author of Counsels of Imperfection: Thinking through Catholic Social Teaching. 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/bite-sized-nuggets-from-laudato-si-2021-06-09/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210614T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210614T191500
DTSTAMP:20260601T032057
CREATED:20210428T085317Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210429T124234Z
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SUMMARY:Philosophy meets Economics and Public Policy
DESCRIPTION:Four lectures by Dr Roberto Fumagalli\, Director of Philosophy\, Politics & Economics Programme\, King’s College London \nDr Fumagalli\, a visiting scholar at Blackfriars for Trinity Term 2021\, conducts research at the interface between philosophy\, economics and public policy.  He offers us four lectures growing out of his research\, which seeks:\n(a) to articulate and defend a reformed division of labour between philosophers\, economists and other empirical scientists in the ongoing attempt to define and measure well-being;\n(b) critically to assess the “principle of secular motivation” by refining current distinctions between religious\, secular and antireligious reasons;\n(c) to respond to the covid-related public health emergency by arguing against the use of lotteries and other randomization procedures for allocating scarce life-saving and other medical resources. \nThe lecture topics are:\n24 May – “A reformed division of labour for the science of well-being”\n31 May – “A more liberal public reason liberalism”\n7 June – “Preferences versus Opportunities: which conceptual foundation for normative welfare economics?”\n14 June – “Why we should not use randomization procedure to allocate scarce life-saving resources” \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/philosophy-meets-economics-and-public-policy-2021-06-14/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute,The Aquinas Institute
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210616T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210616T190000
DTSTAMP:20260601T032057
CREATED:20210422T095620Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210422T095949Z
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SUMMARY:Bite-sized Nuggets from Laudato Si'
DESCRIPTION:Discussion group\nPope Francis’s environmental encyclical is long and rich. Over seven weeks\, we will discuss some of its key sections. Likely topics include: the lessons of Francis of Assisi; the environment and human ecology; climate change and environmental conversion; and the technocratic paradigm. The group will be led by Edward Hadas\, Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall and author of Counsels of Imperfection: Thinking through Catholic Social Teaching. 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/bite-sized-nuggets-from-laudato-si-2021-06-16/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210617T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210617T180000
DTSTAMP:20260601T032057
CREATED:20210427T201227Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210429T124645Z
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SUMMARY:Reading Class: Ralph of Battle’s 'Meditatio cuiusdam Christiani de fide'
DESCRIPTION:Anselm and Ralph of Battle – A reading session\nRalph of Battle’s ‘Meditatio cuiusdam Christiani de fide’\n\nAnselm’s friend and rival Ralph of Battle was arguably the most original theologian and philosopher of Anselm‘s circle\, alongside Gilbert Crispin. Prof Goebel is editing one of Ralph’s major works\, Meditatio cuiusdam Christiani de fide\, inspired by the Monologion. Four MSS survive\, two of them in Oxford. Ralph’s anti-Anselmian claim that natural theology covers but a limited part of Christian theology\, & his rejection of Anselm’s proof of God’s existence in favour of a cosmological argument\, both seem to prefigure Aquinas. \nIn his Meditatio cuiusdam Christiani de fide\, Ralph raises an anthropological question that almost disappeared from the theological agenda by the time of Aquinas\, but which was very much a live issue in the days of Anselm\, who discusses it at length in Cur Deus homo. Augustine had argued that the “perfect number” of rational creatures in the City of God had been diminished by the fall of some of the angels\, and that it had to be restored by individual human beings. In saying so\, he had expressly left open whether the number of human individuals admitted to heaven was equal to that of the fallen angels – which would mean that being an ersatz for fallen angels is all there is to the purpose of our creation\, our value being essentially instrumental – or whether\, over and above these human substitutes\, other humans were included in the perfect number from the outset\, which would imply that the human race would have been created even if no angel had sinned\, and that it possesses an intrinsic value. Anselm strongly favoured the second alternative (as does Aquinas in his Quaestiones disputatae de malo). By contrast\, Ralph tentatively makes a case for the first alternative\, rejecting Anselm’s argument that if humans would not have been made unless some angels sinned\, the fall of some angels would have occurred by necessity and consequently would have been no sin at all. In doing so\, Ralph supplies\, amongst other things\, an interesting definition of free choice. \nThe text to be studied in the reading session\, with an English translation\, will be emailed to those who register.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/reading-class-ralph-of-battles-meditatio-cuiusdam-christiani-de-fide/
CATEGORIES:The Aquinas Institute
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ORGANIZER;CN="Aquinas Institute":MAILTO:aquinas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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