Following the climactic gunfight in the saloon at the end of the classic Western film Shane (1953), Shane rides alone into the mountains, into the virgin land, leaving behind the farmers he has protected as they sought to cultivate what was once the open range. Like many American heroes, Shane, as Huck Finn puts it, lights...
On Monday 17th November, the Oxford Thomistic Institute will be hosting Sr Catherine Joseph Droste OP, of the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum), to speak on Virtue and Self-Knowledge in St Catherine of Sienna. The lecture will begin at 7.30pm in the Aula at Blackfriars, and will be followed by refreshments. All are...
The economics of health care is often criticised as only focussing on efficiency and budget cuts (these are not the same, of course). This has never been true, and health economists have also focussed on equity. In this online webinar, co-chaired by Dr Edward David (Kings College London) and Dr Joseph Kwon (University of Oxford), Professor Stephen...
Dr Silvie Jacobi, Visiting Lecturer, King’s College London, is an expert on the intersection between art and place. She will be running a workshop exploring these themes at Blackfriars in dialogue with the theology of church buildings, including a hands-on art experience: painting supplies will be provided. For further details, please contact Dr Dominic White...
On Monday 24th November, the Oxford Thomistic Institute will be hosting Fr Reginald Lynch OP, of the Dominican House of Studies (DHS) in Washington DC, to speak on Eucharist and Growth in Holiness. The lecture will begin at 7.30pm in the Aula at Blackfriars, and will be followed by refreshments. All are welcome. About the...
In this presentation, I critique transhumanism, which denies any objective account of human nature and flourishing in favour of “morphological freedom” to reshape ourselves in any way one chooses so long as it does not harm others. I also critique those who reject any non-therapeutic interventions that could alter allegedly definitive qualities of human nature....