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SUMMARY:Requiem Mass for Fr Fergus Kerr OP + Film Screening: Becoming Dominic
DESCRIPTION:You are warmly invited to join the Oxford Dominican Community for a Requiem Mass for Fr Fergus\, who passed away in Edinburgh on Sunday\, 23rd November. \nThe reception after the Mass will include a screening of the beautiful 1-hour film Becoming Dominic\, about the commissioning and making of a new statue of St Dominic for the Edinburgh Dominican community. The film includes an interview with Fr Fergus. \nThe screening will be introduced by Fr Dermot Morrin OP\, superior of St Albert’s\, Edinburgh. \nMore Information on Fr Fergus
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/requiem-mass-for-fr-fergus-kerr-op/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Hall\, St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LY\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Artificial Intelligence in a Thomistic Key
DESCRIPTION:Fr Joseph LaracY (Seton Hall University)\, ‘Ontological\, Anthropological\, and Ethical Reflections on Artificial Intelligence in a Thomistic Key’\nThis lecture offers a Thomistic retrieval of perennial metaphysical and moral insights for contemporary reflection on artificial intelligence. Drawing on Thomas Aquinas and modern Neo-Thomist interlocutors such as Stanley Jaki\, OSB\, it considers ontological questions concerning the nature of AI\, anthropological questions regarding its relation to human intelligence and agency\, and ethical questions surrounding its design\, use\, and governance. It further situates these reflections within the horizon of Catholic Social Teaching\, highlighting its resources for evaluating the societal implications of emerging AI technologies. \nJoseph R. Laracy (S.T.D. Pontifical Gregorian University) is a priest of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark and serves as associate professor and chairman of the Department of Systematic Theology at Seton Hall University\, New Jersey\, USA. He is also affiliated with the Seton Hall Department of Mathematics and Computer Science\, the Program in Catholic Studies\, the University Core Curriculum\, and the University Honors Program. Father Laracy is the author of Theology and Science in the Thought of Ian Barbour: A Thomistic Evaluation for the Catholic Doctrine of Creation (Peter Lang\, 2021) and the co-editor with Paul Haffner of 2015 Stanley Jaki International Congress (Gracewing\, 2020).  He is currently on a research sabbatical with the Faculty of Theology and Blackfriars Hall at Oxford University. \nThis event is part of this term’s lecture series\, Thursdays at 5pm unless otherwise noted\, presenting the breadth of Thomistic thought and its applications. Open to all\, no registration required. \nupcoming events in this series\nWk 2 Liam McDonnell (Blackfriars)\, ‘On Studying Aquinas in an Aquinas-like Manner’ \nWednesday Wk 3 Fr Michael Sherwin OP (Angelicum)\, ‘Nietzsche or St Thomas: Thoughts on Alasdair MacIntyre’ \nWk 5 Jan Bentz (Blackfriars)\, ‘Aquinas and the Real Distinction: Historical-Philosophical Notes’ \nWk 6 Jack Norman (Blackfriars)\, ‘McCabe’s Social Ontology: Sin\, Sacraments\, and the New Left’ \nWk 8 Fr Richard Conrad OP (Blackfriars)\, ‘“Faith Believes\, nor Questions How”: St Thomas on How (Not) to Understand the Eucharist’
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/artificial-intelligence-in-a-thomistic-key/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Hall\, St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Aquinas Institute
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SUMMARY:Studying Aquinas in an Aquinas-like Manner
DESCRIPTION:Liam McDonnell (Blackfriars)\, ‘On Studying Aquinas in an Aquinas-like Manner’\nBeginning in the twelfth century\, scholastic theologians started to write in a new genre: the summa. The stated intention behind the creation of the summa was\, in the words of Hugh of St Victor\, to furnish a unified account of ‘all theology’ in one book. This newly holistic exposition of theology enabled the mutually dependent connections between different areas of theology to be tested\, examined and integrated to a hitherto unprecedented extent. Thomas Aquinas stands firmly in this tradition\, his Commentary on the Sentences\, Summa Contra Gentiles and Summa Theologiae all having been written with the same ambitious\, panoramic scope adopted by earlier pioneers of the summa genre. Even works of Aquinas on more specific subjects\, such as De Malo\, turn out to be very wide ranging in ambit\, examining the interrelated connections between various ideas in detail. Paradoxically\, much recent scholarship on Aquinas tends to take a very different approach to that of Aquinas himself\, attempting to give an account of Aquinas’s thought on a single specific issue\, narrowly construed\, and in relative isolation from adjacent questions. In this way\, much recent research now presents Aquinas in a way which is contrary to how Aquinas wrote and intended his books to be read. With reference to specific examples\, I argue that not only are these methods un-Aquinas-like; they tend to yield inaccurate results\, suffering from a narrowness of purview which the format in which Aquinas wrote was designed to prevent. The study of Aquinas on the salvation of those in involuntary ignorance of the Gospel is a subject which is well placed to aid a retrieval of research into Aquinas which is more holistic and Aquinas-like in the breadth of its perspective\, and more historically accurate in its conclusions. \nDr Liam McDonnell is Junior Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall\, Oxford. He completed his DPhil in Theology at Blackfriars: he was the Scovil scholarship holder and Junior Dean. His DPhil was on the history in medieval theology of the question of the salvation of those who are ignorant of the Gospel through no fault of their own. He locates the development of the pertinent questions in their historical contexts\, and shows how they served as key test cases for the harmony between broader theological themes of divine justice\, love\, grace and human free will. He teaches as an associate staff member at the Maryvale Institute. \nPart of this term’s lecture series\, Thursdays at 5pm unless otherwise noted\, presenting the breadth of Thomistic thought and its applications. Open to all\, no registration required. \nupcoming events in this series\nWednesday Wk 3 Fr Michael Sherwin OP (Angelicum)\, ‘Nietzsche or St Thomas: Thoughts on Alasdair MacIntyre’ \nWk 5 Jan Bentz (Blackfriars)\, ‘Aquinas and the Real Distinction: Historical-Philosophical Notes’ \nWk 6 Jack Norman (Blackfriars)\, ‘McCabe’s Social Ontology: Sin\, Sacraments\, and the New Left’ \nWk 8 Fr Richard Conrad OP (Blackfriars)\, ‘“Faith Believes\, nor Questions How”: St Thomas on How (Not) to Understand the Eucharist’
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/studying-aquinas-in-an-aquinas-like-manner/
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SUMMARY:‘It is not an allegory but the Te Deum’: Phoebe Anna Traquair\, art\, and the Divine.’
DESCRIPTION:Dr Clare Broome Saunders\, Senior Tutor\, Blackfriars Hall \nPhoebe Anna Traquair (1852–1936) was one of the leading contributors to the British Arts and Crafts movement\, and one of the first three women elected to the Royal Scottish Academy. Born Phoebe Anna Moss in Dublin\, she was inspired by childhood visits to the medieval manuscripts housed at Trinity College\, particularly to see the Book of Kells\, to pursue a career in art. \nThe influence of these medieval documents – the use of colour\, the interaction of text and image to create new meanings – reverberated throughout her long and varied professional life.  After marrying the Scottish palaeontologist Dr Ramsay Heatley Traquair\, she moved with him to Edinburgh\, where she illustrated his papers for the next thirty years\, with a Ruskinian attention to what she called in a letter ‘all the unapproachable beauty in nature’s details’. At the same time\, she embarked on a career that focused on the illustration of literary texts\, mural painting\, enamels\, and embroideries. Traquair wanted to show a society in which she saw loneliness\, struggle\, and isolation a vision of joy and hope\, where a focus on the world around and local environment could elevate the everyday to the divine. \nIn this talk\, Dr Clare Broome Saunders will explore how Traquair used her public art commissions to reconnect society with the environment and with each other\, as well as leading them ultimately to a communion with God. She will also consider the ways in which inspiration from medieval texts and art\, and William Blake’s medievalism\, offered Traquair the imaginative means to express this artistic vision.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/it-is-not-an-allegory-but-the-te-deum-phoebe-anna-traquair-art-and-the-divine/
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