The Aquinas Institute will be co-sponsoring a two day conference with the Thomistic Institute on the 9-10 March, 2026. Held in the Campion Hall Lecture Room, it will discuss the virtues as guidance for morality. Speakers include: Richard Kim; Fr Nicholas Austin; Daniel De Haan; Roger Teichmann; Terence Irwin; John Cottingham; Gabriele De Anna; Sr Blandine Lagrut;...
Realism about a certain kind of 'abstract object', namely, universals or properties, has been thought to pose a problem for theism. To be a realist about universals or properties is just to believe that they exist. First, I talk about two different kinds of reason to believe in them, which lead to two different roles they...
Fr Richard Conrad OP (Blackfriars), ‘“Faith Believes, nor Questions How”: St Thomas on How (Not) to Understand the Eucharist’ Part of this term’s lecture series, Thursdays at 5pm unless otherwise noted, presenting the breadth of Thomistic thought and its applications.
It is a grave responsibility to represent someone else, to speak and act in another’s name. The honour and reputation of the represented is vicariously liable for the words and deeds of his representative. How much graver is the responsibility then when the authority represented is the Author of creation, and when the reputation made...
Can "Existence Itself" be Personal? Interpreting Aquinas’s God This year's Annual Aquinas Lecture will be given by John Cottingham (Prof Emeritus, Reading; Hon Fellow, John’s Oxford) Thursday the 7th of May (Week 2 TT), at 4pm. Prof Cottingham is a distinguished scholar of Philosophy and Religion, and the author of over thirty books and over one-hundred-and-sixty...
John Berkman, University of Toronto and Visiting Fellow at Campion Hall, will deliver this lecture at 4pm, Tuesday the 19th of May. Dr Nicholas Austin SJ, Campion, will respond. The event is free and open to everyone, no registration is required. This lecture is part of our Trinity series, see the other talks below. John...
Thomas Aquinas on the Trinity (June 1–4, 2026) The Aquinas Institute at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford University is pleased to announce a call for applicants for the 2026 Aquinas Summer Seminar on the theme of trinitarian theology in St Thomas Aquinas. The event will run from Monday morning of June 1st, through Thursday evening of June 4th, 2026....
Care ethicists have long called for a shift from an individualist society to a more communitarian one. Only this, they argue, will ensure the vulnerable among us are taken care of and their caregivers protected from exploitation. Even if care ethics is right that the ideal society is a communitarian one, however, it does not...
The Aquinas Institute are co-sponsoring a conference with the Canterbury Institute, and The Centre for Theology, Law, and Culture at Pusey House, on 11 and 12 June at Campion Hall, Christ Church, and Pusey House. The death of Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre (12 January 1929 – 21 May 2025) provides all who are indebted to his...
Late scholastic reflection on cognitional being generated a parallel and consequential question: what is the distinctive metaphysical status of moral acts precisely as moral? The various schools proposed competing solutions under the heading of ens morale. This talk maps those positions and examines the Thomist account in particular, reading it against the Summa theologiae's Treatise...