If men and women are made in God's image, then human work must have something divine about it. If societies are supposed to be just, then the work that people do should be justly rewarded. We will look at highlights of modern Catholic thinking about work and worker justice, from Cardinal Manning in the 1870s...
Uncanny Atonement in Thomas Hardy’s “Tess of the D’Urbervilles” In a new Future of the Humanities Project event series — Cultural Encounters: Books that Have Made a Difference — we embrace the other at a time when we have heard much about the ways in which national, religious, and cultural lines divide us as humans....
The Aquinas Group offers young adults an opportunity to enrich their spiritual and intellectual lives by studying the writings of St Thomas Aquinas. We meet on Mondays in term at 7pm. We begin with a light meal, then explore a topic guided by one of the friars, before finishing by praying Compline (night prayer) together...
If men and women are made in God's image, then human work must have something divine about it. If societies are supposed to be just, then the work that people do should be justly rewarded. We will look at highlights of modern Catholic thinking about work and worker justice, from Cardinal Manning in the 1870s...
The international crisis over refugees has significantly worsened in the past decade. As of mid-2023, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees had tracked at least 110 million people in the world who have been forcibly displaced, an increase of 45 million people since 2015. But as refugees and asylum seekers in need of protection...
In a new Future of the Humanities Project event series — Cultural Encounters: Books that Have Made a Difference — we embrace the other at a time when we have heard much about the ways in which national, religious, and cultural lines divide us as humans. In this series, we invite leading scholars across disciplines...
A Thomistic Institute lecture by Dr Valentina Duca, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, on Isaac of Nineveh’s theological anthropology. The lecture will take place at 7.30pm at Blackfriars (OX1 3LY), will be followed by refreshments, and all are welcome. Isaac of Nineveh (7th c.) is the major exponent of East-Syriac mysticism, which developed in...
If men and women are made in God's image, then human work must have something divine about it. If societies are supposed to be just, then the work that people do should be justly rewarded. We will look at highlights of modern Catholic thinking about work and worker justice, from Cardinal Manning in the 1870s...
Our Technological Fate: George Grant and Pope Francis in Dialogue An in-person talk by Hallam Willis, Associate Member of the Las Casas Institute in the Aula at Blackfriars Hall. The event will also be available to follow online. To register for online attendance, please follow this link. The primary aim of this talk is to...