Small is Beautiful, first published in 1973, has become a classic text for critics of the massive scale and environmental depredations of the modern industrial economy. The author was the Chief Economic Advisor to the British National Coal Board, a founder of the Intermediate Technology Development Group, and an enthusiast for Catholic Social Teaching. Many...
A comprehensive reading of Katherine Soderegger’s Systematic Theology, vol 1: The Doctrine of God (Fortress, 2015). To be followed in Trinity term with a similar approach to the second volume. Registration required, please email oliver.keenan@bfriars.ox.ac.uk Wk 1 (19 Jan) – Divine Oneness (§1 and §2) Wk 2 (26 Jan) – Omnipresence: The Perfection of...
Prof. Joshua Hochschild on 'Truth and the Primacy of Practical Reason: R.G. Collingwood and the Relation of Logic to Metaphysics and Theology'
Aquinas Lectures 2023 Aquinas and the Future of Christian Thought What contribution can Aquinas make to the Church and academy of today? A series of public lectures to commemorate the 700th anniversary of the canonisation of St Thomas Aquinas OP. 26 January Prof Mariusz Tabaczek OP: Contemporary Views on Anthropogenesis: An Aristotelian-Thomistic Contribution 1 February Rev...
A series of four reading classes examining contemporary continental philosophies of the liturgy as a locus of truth. Registration required, please email: aquinas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk 25 Jan: Jean-Yves Lacoste: Liturgy and/as the House of Truth 8 Feb: Jean-Yves Lacoste: The Liturgical Experience of Truth 22 Feb: Jean-Luc Marion: Eucharist and Truth’s Disclosure 8 Mar: Jean-Luc Marion:...
Small is Beautiful, first published in 1973, has become a classic text for critics of the massive scale and environmental depredations of the modern industrial economy. The author was the Chief Economic Advisor to the British National Coal Board, a founder of the Intermediate Technology Development Group, and an enthusiast for Catholic Social Teaching. Many...
A comprehensive reading of Katherine Soderegger’s Systematic Theology, vol 1: The Doctrine of God (Fortress, 2015). To be followed in Trinity term with a similar approach to the second volume. Registration required, please email oliver.keenan@bfriars.ox.ac.uk Wk 1 (19 Jan) – Divine Oneness (§1 and §2) Wk 2 (26 Jan) – Omnipresence: The Perfection of...
Book launch to celebrate the publication of Meaning of Mourning: Perspectives on Death, Loss and Grief, edited by Mikolaj Slawkowski-Rode. The Meaning of Mourning brings perspectives from leading philosophers, psychologists, theologians, writers, and artists exploring different dimensions of death, loss, and grief. They together form a wide-ranging study of some of the most difficult and...
Dr Clare Broome Saunders is giving a talk by Zoom on the artist Phoebe Anna Traquair. This event is sponsored by the Future of the Humanities Project; the Georgetown Humanities Initiative; the Georgetown Master's Program in the Engaged and Public Humanities; Campion Hall, Oxford; and the Las Casas Institute (Blackfriars Hall, Oxford). It is part...
This event is part of the ongoing event series Free Speech at the Crossroads: International Dialogues. These events are sponsored by the Free Speech Project (Georgetown University), the Las Casas Institute and Campion Hall, hosted by Georgetown University on Zoom. Just weeks after taking office, the new government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which...
Oxford Consortium for Human Rights Annual Lecture Bartolomé de Las Casas, widely known as ‘the defender of the Indians’, is often presented as a lonely voice confronting the forces of darkness that surrounded him. This lecture attempts to place Las Casas in a wider historical context in order to reassess the originality of his contribution...