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SUMMARY:How (Not) to Understand the Eucharist
DESCRIPTION:Fr Richard Conrad OP (Blackfriars)\, ‘“Faith Believes\, nor Questions How”: St Thomas on How (Not) to Understand the Eucharist’\nPart of this term’s lecture series\, Thursdays at 5pm unless otherwise noted\, presenting the breadth of Thomistic thought and its applications.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/how-not-to-understand-the-eucharist/
LOCATION:Aquinas Seminar Room\, 17 Beaumont Street\, Oxford\, Oxfordshire\, OX1 2NA\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Divine Bootstrapping: Do Abstract Objects Lead to Atheism?
DESCRIPTION: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 are supposed to play.  For the sake of argument\, I’ll assume they’re both good reasons.  Does realism about universals lead to a problem for theism — for a certain specific kind of theism\, one that says only God exists ‘a se’\, not dependent upon anything?  We’ll look at two arguments that say there would be a bad kind of circle of dependence.  Paying attention to the two roles universals are supposed to play will show that the two arguments fail\, for two different reasons.  The arguments were developed before the relatively recent growth of the ‘grounding’ literature; but they have to do with inadmissible grounding structure; so I’ll be connecting these debates\, which make use of notions of priority\, to the metaphysics of grounds. \nIn this lecture\, distinguished professor Dean Zimmerman\, Rutgers\, will speak at the Blackfriars Aula\, 3pm 11 March.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/divine-bootstrapping-do-abstract-objects-lead-to-atheism/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Hall\, St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LY\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:The Virtues as Sources of Moral Guidance
DESCRIPTION: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; and Roger Pouivet. Please see the full schedule below. \nFor more details\, and to register\, please follow the link. \nConference Schedule\nDay 1\, Monday\, March 9\, 2026 – Lecture Room\, Campion Hall\n9:00-9:20         Introduction \n9:20-10:20       Blandine Lagrut (Facultés Loyola Paris)\,\n‘Natural Piety\, Moral Horror\, and Supra-Utilitarian Virtues’ \n10:20-11:20     Roger Teichmann (St Hilda’s College\, Oxford)\,\n‘Practical Wisdom\, Language Use and the Erring Conscience’ \n11:20-11:40    Tea & Coffee break \n11:40 -12:40    Gabriele De Anna (University of Udine)\,\n‘Virtues\, Practices\, and Normativity: Thomas Aquinas and Moral Guidance by the Virtues’ \n12:40-15:00    Lunch Break \n14:30-15:00    Tea & Coffee in Entrance Hall\, Campion Hall \n15:00-16:00     Daniel De Haan (Blackfriars & Campion Hall\, Oxford)\,\n‘Virtue as an Irreducible Source of Normativity’ \n16:00-17:00     Roger Pouivet (Université de Lorraine)\,\n‘Truth as a Virtue of Justice’ \n17:00-18:00     Drinks Reception\, Campion Hall \n19:00                    Dinner for Speakers \nDay 2\, Tuesday\, March 10\, 2026 – Lecture Room\, Campion Hall\n9:00-10:00        Richard Kim (University of Loyola Chicago)\,\n‘Virtues as Sources of Practical Knowledge’ \n10:00-11:00      Nick Austin (Campion Hall\, Oxford)\,\n‘Virtue Theory Gets Practical: An Integrative Reading of Aquinas’s Ethics \n11:00-11:30      Tea & Coffee break \n11:30-12:45      Terence Irwin (Faculty of Philosophy\, Oxford)\,\n‘Vaulting Ambition in Virtue Ethics’ \n12:50-14:00      Lunch Break  \n14:30-15:00      Tea & Coffee in Entrance Hall\, Campion Hall \n15:00-16:00       John Cottingham (University of Reading)\,\n‘A Normative Deficit? Aristotle\, Anscombe\, MacIntyre\, and the Virtues’ \n16:00-16:15       Break \n16:15-17:30       Panel Discussion chaired by Daniel De Haan \n18:00-18:45       Drinks Reception\, Campion Hall
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/the-virtues-as-sources-of-moral-guidance/
LOCATION:Campion Hall\, Brewer Street\, Oxford\, OX1 1QS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Aquinas Institute
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SUMMARY:Sin\, Sacraments\, and the New Left
DESCRIPTION:Jack Norman (Blackfriars)\, ‘McCabe’s Social Ontology: Sin\, Sacraments\, and the New Left’\nHerbert McCabe OP’s thought was shaped by and phrased in Marxist social theory\, and he shows undeniable sympathy to Marxism. This has been picked up by several recent writings on McCabe. However\, read in context\, I will show that McCabe gave a critical account of Marxism that is embedded in his theology of sin and of grace\, and an ecclesiology that challenges the possibility of a non-Christian community flourishing. In an Augustinian manner\, McCabe thought that without the Church\, and the sacraments\, and certainly without grace\, communities inevitably turn against themselves. As such\, a secular Marxism cannot achieve its own aims. They might be able to diagnose problems but cannot bring about a harmonious society. Thus\, while Marxism influenced McCabe’s thought from his social theory even into his sacramental theology\,  his Marxism is always secondary to his theological convictions.  This\, in turn\, will raise broader theological questions of the kinds of societal progress that can be achieved in light of an account of nature and grace. \nDr Jack Norman is a Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall. Before that\, he was a Research Fellow at Australian Catholic University. He completed his AHRC funded PhD at the University of Bristol in 2019. His research focuses on systematic theology\, especially a group of theologians sometimes called the ‘Grammatical Thomists’\, including thinkers such as Herbert McCabe OP and David Burrell CSC. He is currently writing articles on Thomism and realism\, and Marxism and Christianity. \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\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/sin-sacraments-and-the-new-left/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Hall\, St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LY\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Aquinas and the Real Distinction
DESCRIPTION:Jan Bentz (Blackfriars)\, ‘Aquinas and the Real Distinction: Historical-Philosophical Notes’\nPart of this term’s lecture series\, Thursdays at 5pm unless otherwise noted\, presenting the breadth of Thomistic thought and its applications. \nupcoming events in this series\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/aquinas-and-the-real-distinction/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Hall\, St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Aquinas Institute
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260204T170000
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SUMMARY:Nietzsche or St Thomas
DESCRIPTION:Fr Michael Sherwin OP (Angelicum)\, ‘Nietzsche or St Thomas: Thoughts on Alasdair MacIntyre’\nPart of this term’s lecture series\, Thursdays at 5pm unless otherwise noted\, presenting the breadth of Thomistic thought and its applications. \nupcoming events in this series\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/nietzsche-or-st-thomas/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Hall\, St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Aquinas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Aquinas Institute":MAILTO:aquinas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260129T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260129T183000
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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/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Hall\, St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Aquinas Institute
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260122T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260122T183000
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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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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251203T183000
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SUMMARY:Can we BioTechnologically Construct a Morally Better Human?
DESCRIPTION:In this presentation\, I comparatively analyze traditional indirect means of moral enhancement\, such as moral education within families and wider societies\, with direct biotechnological means that affect a moral agent’s cognitive and emotive capacities. I raise several concerns with the latter and call for enhancing traditional methods of moral education. Nevertheless\, certain methods of bioenhancement could facilitate\, and not undermine\, one’s agency\, autonomy\, and authenticity by aligning their first- and second-order desires. Yet\, even if there are principled reasons to allow for\, or even encourage\, such forms of moral bioenhancement\, there are various practical concerns that may be insurmountable when such means are made available on the open market. \nThis is the third lecture in a series delivered by the Aquinas Institute visiting fellow Professor Jason Eberl\, Saint Louis University. \nTo register\, follow the link
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/can-we-biotechnologically-construct-a-morally-better-human/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Hall\, St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Aquinas Institute
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251125T183000
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SUMMARY:Thomism and Transhumanism: Can Biotechnology enhance Human Flourishing?
DESCRIPTION: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. I then ethically assess proposed forms of human enhancement from the anthropological and moral perspective developed by Aquinas and various subsequent Thomists. I contend that certain “moderate” forms of human enhancement may be conducive to human flourishing\, as Thomistically defined\, while others would be deleterious to a human being’s self-identity and flourishing as a living\, sentient\, social\, and rational animal. Even if such moderate forms of enhancement are in principle permissible\, significant practical concerns may ultimately undermine their ethical viability. \nThis is the second lecture in a series delivered by the Aquinas Institute visiting fellow Professor Jason Eberl\, Saint Louis University. \nTo register\, follow the link \nupcoming Lectures in this series\nCan We BioTechnologically Construct a Morally Better Human?\nWednesday\, 3 December 5pm\, Blackfriars Hall – Aula
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/thomism-and-transhumanism-can-biotechnology-enhance-human-flourishing/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Hall\, St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LY\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251014T170000
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SUMMARY:What is the True Death of a Human Being?
DESCRIPTION:The debate regarding the validity of the use of neurological criteria to determine death – so-called “brain death” – has been central to the field of bioethics since its inception. At the root of this debate are several philosophical claims regarding the definition of human personhood and criterion of personal identity\, concepts such as “organism as a whole” and “irreversibility\,” and whether death should be understood as a strictly biological or a partially socially constructed fact. The brain death debate has been re-energized by recent cases involving apparent post-brain death survival\, calls to revise the Uniform Determination of Death Act\, and the development of a novel means of organ procurement known as normothermic regional perfusion following circulatory determination of death. This presentation revisits the arguments for and against brain death\, defending not only the conceptual validity of brain death\, but also its marking the true death of a human being. \nThis is the first lecture in a series delivered by the Aquinas Institute visiting fellow Professor Jason Eberl\, Saint Louis University. \nDr Michael Wee will respond. \nTo register\, follow the link \nupcoming Lectures in this series\nThomism and Transhumanism: Can Biotechnology Enhance Human Flourishing?\nTuesday\, 25 November 5pm\, Blackfriars Hall – Aula \nCan We BioTechnologically Construct a Morally Better Human?\nWednesday\, 3 December 5pm\, Blackfriars Hall – Aula
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/what-is-the-true-death-of-a-human-being/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Hall\, St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Aquinas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Aquinas Institute":MAILTO:aquinas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250618T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250618T190000
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SUMMARY:Rivalling Kingdoms of Desire in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment
DESCRIPTION:Led by Philip John Paul Gonzales (St. Mary’s Seminary & University\, Baltimore)\, this lecture will discuss Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. The apocalyptic artistry of Dostoevsky will be on full show as Philip Gonzales explores the underground desires and the battle between the two kingdoms in this key work of the western canon. \nThis event will take place Wednesday the 18th of June\, at 5pm in the Aula \nTo register to attend\, please follow the link
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/rivaling-kingdoms-of-desire-in-dostoevskys-crime-and-punishment/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Hall\, St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Aquinas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Aquinas Institute":MAILTO:aquinas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250609T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250610T153000
DTSTAMP:20260427T143627
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UID:10309-1749477600-1749569400@www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Thomistic Metaphysics Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Aquinas Institute\, Blackfriars Hall\, and the Thomistic Institute\, this is a seminar for faculty\, graduate students\, advanced undergraduate students\, and postdocs in philosophy and related disciplines. \n9th June: 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm\, at the Michael Dummett Lecture Theatre\, Christ Church\, Oxford \n10th June: 9:15 am – 3:30 pm\, at the Cathedral Chapter House\, Christ Church\, Oxford \nOpen to academics and university members. To register for this event\, please follow the link \nSchedule\nDay 1: Arguments for the Real Distinction between Esse and Essentia \n\n\nDaniel De Haan (University of Oxford) \n\n\nGaven Kerr (St. Patrick’s College\, Maynooth) \n\n\nJoshua Hochschild (Mount St. Mary’s University) \n\n\nDominic LaMantia (University of Notre Dame) \n\n\nMichael Gorman (The Catholic University of America) \n\n\nTurner Nevitt (University of San Diego) \n\n\nDay 2: How does esse relate to essentia? \n\n\nFr. Philip-Neri Reese\, O.P. (Angelicum) \n\n\nThomas Osborne (University of St. Thomas\, Houston) \n\n\nDomenic D’Ettore (University of St. Thomas\, Houston) \n\n\nBrian Carl (University of St. Thomas\, Houston) \n\n\nFrancesco Banfi (University of Oxford)
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/thomistic-metaphysics-seminar/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Hall\, St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Aquinas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Aquinas Institute":MAILTO:aquinas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250520T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250520T190000
DTSTAMP:20260427T143627
CREATED:20250505T105422Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250505T105422Z
UID:10302-1747756800-1747767600@www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Ethics\, Politics\, and Natural Law: Principles for Human Flourishing
DESCRIPTION:Professor Melissa Moschella (Notre Dame) presents her new book Ethics\, Politics\, and Natural Law: Principles for Human Flourishing\, with responses from Dr Daniel De Haan (Campion & Blackfriars) and Clemente Recabarren (St John’s)\, chaired by Fr. John O’Connor (Blackfriars). Jointly organized by the Canterbury Institute and Blackfriars Hall.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/ethics-politics-and-natural-law-principles-for-human-flourishing/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Hall\, St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Aquinas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Aquinas Institute":MAILTO:aquinas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
GEO:51.756248;-1.259881
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250513T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250513T190000
DTSTAMP:20260427T143627
CREATED:20250507T082835Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250507T092729Z
UID:10314-1747155600-1747162800@www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk
SUMMARY:The Importance of 'Rationes Seminales' for Augustine's Theology of Creation
DESCRIPTION:Does Augustine’s interpretation of Genesis make him the father of evolutionism? Revd Prof Mariusz Tabaczek OP (Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas) will speak in this lecture co-organized by the Canterbury Institute\, the McDonald Agape Foundation\, and the Aquinas Institute\, Blackfriars Hall. \nThis lecture will take place at\n5pm Tuesday the 13th of May in the Aula\, Blackfriars Hall. \nTo register\, please email alberto.garzoni@keble.ox.ac.uk \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/the-importance-of-rationes-seminales-for-augustines-theology-of-creation/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Hall\, St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Aquinas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Aquinas Institute":MAILTO:aquinas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
GEO:51.756248;-1.259881
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250128T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250128T183000
DTSTAMP:20260427T143627
CREATED:20250109T084025Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250120T110618Z
UID:10146-1738083600-1738089000@www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk
SUMMARY:2025 Aquinas Lecture: Aquinas on the Atonement
DESCRIPTION:The 2025 Aquinas Lecture will be given by Fr Thomas Joseph White OP\, the Rector Magnificus of the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum)\, Rome. The title of the lecture is: \nAquinas on the Atonement: The Crucifixion as an Epiphany of the Trinity \nThe lecture will take place on Tuesday 28th January 2025 at 5pm in the aula at Blackfriars. A reception will follow the lecture. Please register to attend this event in person\, all are welcome. \nOnline attendance is also available\, to attend virtually please register at this link. \nFr. Thomas Joseph White is the Rector Magnificus of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas (Angelicum) in Rome. He is the author of various books and articles including Wisdom in the Face of Modernity: A Study in Thomistic Natural Theology (Sapientia Press\, 2011)\, The Incarnate Lord\, A Thomistic Study in Christology (The Catholic University of America Press\, 2015) Exodus (Brazos Press\, 2016)\, The Light of Christ: An Introduction to Catholicism (Catholic University Press\, 2017)\, and The Trinity: On the Nature and Mystery of the One God (Catholic University Press\, 2022)\, Principles of Catholic Theology. Book 1: On the Nature of Theology\, (Washington\, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press\, 2023)\, Principles of Catholic Theology. Book 2: On the Rational Credibility of Christianity (Washington\, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press\, 2023). He is co-editor of the journal Nova et Vetera\, a Distinguished Scholar of the McDonald Agape Foundation\, and a member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas. \nhttps://angelicum.it/teologia/professor/thomas-joseph-white-o-p/
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/2025-aquinas-lecture-aquinas-on-the-atonement/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Hall\, St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Aquinas Institute
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241102T084500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241102T183000
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SUMMARY:Creation & Evolution
DESCRIPTION:The Angelicum Thomistic Institute Project for Science and Religion along with the Aquinas Institute is holding a day long book symposium on Mariusz Tabaczek‘s new book\, Theistic Evolution. A Contemporary Aristotelian-Thomistic Perspective (2024\, Cambridge University Press) \nAll are welcome. Registration is required. \nConference Schedule and Speakers:\n08:45 | Introduction and Welcome \n09:00 | Mariusz Tabaczek O.P. \n09:30 | Daniel Kuebler \n10:30 | Coffee break \n11:00 | Christopher Austin \n12:00 | Lunch \n14:00 | Travis Dumsday \n15:15 | Tim Pawl \n16:15 | Coffee Break \n16:30 | Andrew Davison \n17:30 | Final Discussion \n \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/creation-evolution/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Hall\, St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Aquinas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Aquinas Institute":MAILTO:aquinas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240613T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240613T190000
DTSTAMP:20260427T143627
CREATED:20240521T080512Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240528T105312Z
UID:9787-1718298000-1718305200@www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk
SUMMARY:'Giving Wisdom to Little Ones' (Ps. 18: 8)
DESCRIPTION:2024 Aquinas LecturE\n‘Giving Wisdom to Little Ones’ (Ps. 18: 8): St. Thomas Aquinas\, Doctor of the Little Way\nFrom the life and writings of St Thomas Aquinas\, it will be argued that humility\, best exemplified according to Jesus by the little child (cf. Matthew 18: 3)\, is necessary for the attainment of wisdom.  The testimony of the Lord is faithful\, giving wisdom to little ones (Psalm 18: 8).  This humility\, therefore\, combined with the purity of heart\, of which we have spoken\, and the great assiduity in holy prayers\, made Thomas’s soul docile and tender both to receive and to follow the impulses and illuminations of the Holy Spirit\, in which the substance of contemplation consists (Pope Pius XI\, Studiorum ducem (1925\, for the 700th anniversary of St Thomas’s birth). \nThis year’s lecture is given by Fr John Saward in the Aula at Blackfriars Hall followed by a wine reception. \nAll are welcome. Registration is required\, please email aquinas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/giving-wisdom-to-little-ones/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Hall\, St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Aquinas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Aquinas Institute":MAILTO:aquinas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240311T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240311T170000
DTSTAMP:20260427T143627
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240224T080318Z
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SUMMARY:Przywara Symposium
DESCRIPTION:A day conference on the theology of Erich Przywara\, SJ open to members of the University of Oxford \n \n9:00 – 10:00 Philip Gonzales\, “Introducing the Life\, Work\, and Thought of Erich Przywara” \n10:15-11:30 Carl Scerri\, “Erich Przywara and Edith Stein: Dissimilarities within Similarities”\nResponse by Gaven Kerr \nBreak for Lunch \n2:00-3:15 Julian Schuler\, “Haupt und Leib Ein Christus – The Augustinian Concept of Ecclesiology in Przywara”\nResponse by Zachariah Kahler \n3:30-5:00 John Betz\, “Being at the Crossroads: Przywara’s Metaphysical Anthropology”\nResponse by Joshua Furnal \nThe event is co-sponsored by the Aquinas Institute\, Campion Hall and St Patrick’s Pontifical University\, Maynooth. \nPlease email Daniel De Haan with enquiries.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/przywara-symposium/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Hall\, St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Aquinas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Aquinas Institute":MAILTO:aquinas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231201T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231201T130000
DTSTAMP:20260427T143627
CREATED:20231019T180830Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231019T180830Z
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SUMMARY:Marion's 'God without Being' Reading Seminar
DESCRIPTION:‘Widening Horizons’ – Marion God without Being Reading Seminar \nAs part of the Widening Horizons in Philosophical Theology project that is hosted at the Institute\, a weekly reading class exploring Jean-Luc Marion’s God without Being is being convened at Blackfriars on Fridays at 12\, noon\, in Michaelmas Term\, 2023. \nRegister by email to aquinas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/marions-god-without-being-reading-seminar/2023-12-01/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Hall\, St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Aquinas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Aquinas Institute":MAILTO:aquinas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231124T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231124T130000
DTSTAMP:20260427T143627
CREATED:20231019T180829Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231019T180829Z
UID:9237-1700827200-1700830800@www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Marion's 'God without Being' Reading Seminar
DESCRIPTION:‘Widening Horizons’ – Marion God without Being Reading Seminar \nAs part of the Widening Horizons in Philosophical Theology project that is hosted at the Institute\, a weekly reading class exploring Jean-Luc Marion’s God without Being is being convened at Blackfriars on Fridays at 12\, noon\, in Michaelmas Term\, 2023. \nRegister by email to aquinas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/marions-god-without-being-reading-seminar/2023-11-24/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Hall\, St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Aquinas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Aquinas Institute":MAILTO:aquinas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231117T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231117T130000
DTSTAMP:20260427T143627
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LAST-MODIFIED:20231019T180828Z
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SUMMARY:Marion's 'God without Being' Reading Seminar
DESCRIPTION:‘Widening Horizons’ – Marion God without Being Reading Seminar \nAs part of the Widening Horizons in Philosophical Theology project that is hosted at the Institute\, a weekly reading class exploring Jean-Luc Marion’s God without Being is being convened at Blackfriars on Fridays at 12\, noon\, in Michaelmas Term\, 2023. \nRegister by email to aquinas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/marions-god-without-being-reading-seminar/2023-11-17/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Hall\, St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Aquinas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Aquinas Institute":MAILTO:aquinas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231110T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231110T130000
DTSTAMP:20260427T143627
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LAST-MODIFIED:20231019T180827Z
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SUMMARY:Marion's 'God without Being' Reading Seminar
DESCRIPTION:‘Widening Horizons’ – Marion God without Being Reading Seminar \nAs part of the Widening Horizons in Philosophical Theology project that is hosted at the Institute\, a weekly reading class exploring Jean-Luc Marion’s God without Being is being convened at Blackfriars on Fridays at 12\, noon\, in Michaelmas Term\, 2023. \nRegister by email to aquinas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/marions-god-without-being-reading-seminar/2023-11-10/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Hall\, St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Aquinas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Aquinas Institute":MAILTO:aquinas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231103T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231103T130000
DTSTAMP:20260427T143627
CREATED:20231019T180827Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231019T180827Z
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SUMMARY:Marion's 'God without Being' Reading Seminar
DESCRIPTION:‘Widening Horizons’ – Marion God without Being Reading Seminar \nAs part of the Widening Horizons in Philosophical Theology project that is hosted at the Institute\, a weekly reading class exploring Jean-Luc Marion’s God without Being is being convened at Blackfriars on Fridays at 12\, noon\, in Michaelmas Term\, 2023. \nRegister by email to aquinas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/marions-god-without-being-reading-seminar/2023-11-03/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Hall\, St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Aquinas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Aquinas Institute":MAILTO:aquinas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231027T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231027T130000
DTSTAMP:20260427T143627
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LAST-MODIFIED:20231019T180826Z
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SUMMARY:Marion's 'God without Being' Reading Seminar
DESCRIPTION:‘Widening Horizons’ – Marion God without Being Reading Seminar \nAs part of the Widening Horizons in Philosophical Theology project that is hosted at the Institute\, a weekly reading class exploring Jean-Luc Marion’s God without Being is being convened at Blackfriars on Fridays at 12\, noon\, in Michaelmas Term\, 2023. \nRegister by email to aquinas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/marions-god-without-being-reading-seminar/2023-10-27/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Hall\, St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Aquinas Institute
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231024T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231024T170000
DTSTAMP:20260427T143627
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LAST-MODIFIED:20231016T134433Z
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SUMMARY:Literal Sense and Spiritual Intelligence in St. Thomas Aquinas’s Biblical Hermeneutics
DESCRIPTION:The Aquinas Institute presents a lecture by Fr. Ignacio Manresa hhnssc\, Professor of Sacred Scripture at the Instituto Superior de Estudios Teológicos San Ildefonso (Toledo\, Spain). \nAbout the Lecture: \nOne of the key issues in biblical hermeneutics is that of the biblical sense. Both in the theological tradition and in contemporary biblical hermeneutics\, there has been a confusion about the literal sense and the spiritual sense. Consequently (1) the interpreter does not know which one to look for in his exegesis\, and (2) the production of a division between what Scripture meant historically (literal sense) and what it means for the faith of the believer (spiritual sense). \nSt. Thomas Aquinas offers two key concepts that can help overcome such confusion: a literal sense of the divine author\, and the spiritual intelligence of this literal sense. Contemporary biblical hermeneutics understands the literal sense to be the sense of the human author. Against this it is necessary to recover with St. Thomas a literal sense of Scripture that is proper to its principal author\, God\, and to its human author\, a true author elevated in his intelligence and transcended in a certain way by the action of God signifying. On the other hand\, we need a ‘spiritual’ understanding of Sacred Scripture which does not reduce it to the measure of human reason. With St. Thomas\, we can also offer an explanation of this true intelligence of meaning which harmonizes the human way of receiving revelation with its supernatural nature. \n  \nAbout the Speaker: \nFr. Manresa is a member of Hermandad de Hijos de Nuestra Señora del Sagrado Corazón (hhnssc) and Professor of Sacred Scripture at the Instituto Superior de Estudios Teológicos San Ildefonso (Toledo\, Spain). He was ordained in 1996 and wrote his doctoral dissertation on the biblical hermeneutics of St. Thomas Aquinas and its corrective potential for contemporary biblical hermeneutics (‘La exégesis en el Espíritu según santo Tomás de Aquino’) at Universidad Eclesiástica San Dámaso in 2014. He continues his research on biblical hermeneutics\, particularly on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Gospel of St. John. \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/literal-sense-and-spiritual-intelligence-in-st-thomas-aquinass-biblical-hermeneutics/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Hall\, St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Aquinas Institute
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SUMMARY:Marion's 'God without Being' Reading Seminar
DESCRIPTION:‘Widening Horizons’ – Marion God without Being Reading Seminar \nAs part of the Widening Horizons in Philosophical Theology project that is hosted at the Institute\, a weekly reading class exploring Jean-Luc Marion’s God without Being is being convened at Blackfriars on Fridays at 12\, noon\, in Michaelmas Term\, 2023. \nRegister by email to aquinas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/marions-god-without-being-reading-seminar/2023-10-20/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Hall\, St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Aquinas Institute
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SUMMARY:Aquinas\, Truth\, and Postmodernism
DESCRIPTION:The Aquinas Institute is hosting Prof Timothy Pawl from the University of St Thomas to speak on ‘Aquinas\, Truth\, and Postmodernism’. \nThe lecture will take place at 5pm in the Aula at Blackfriars\, and all are welcome.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/aquinas-truth-and-postmodernism/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Hall\, St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Aquinas Institute
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SUMMARY:Meaning of Mourning: Perspectives on Death\, Loss and Grief
DESCRIPTION:Book launch to celebrate the publication of Meaning of Mourning: Perspectives on Death\, Loss and Grief\, edited by Mikolaj Slawkowski-Rode. \n\nThe Meaning of Mourning brings perspectives from leading philosophers\, psychologists\, theologians\, writers\, and artists exploring different dimensions of death\, loss\, and grief. \nThey together form a wide-ranging study of some of the most difficult and formative experiences in human life.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/meaning-of-mourning-perspectives-on-death-loss-and-grief/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Hall\, St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Aquinas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Aquinas Institute":MAILTO:aquinas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:Sonderegger Reading Group
DESCRIPTION: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. \nRegistration required\, please email oliver.keenan@bfriars.ox.ac.uk \n  \nWk 1 (19 Jan) – Divine Oneness (§1 and §2) \nWk 2  (26 Jan) – Omnipresence: The Perfection of Divine Hiddenness (§3) \nWk 3 (2 Feb) – Omnipotence: The Perfection of Humility (§4) \nWk 4 (9 Feb) – Omniscience: The Perfection of Divine Spirituality (§5) \nWk 5 (16 Feb)– Methodological & Transcendental Questions in Omniscience (§6) \nWk 6 (23 Feb) – Doctrine of Illumination (§7) \nWk 7 (2 Mar) – The Perfection of Divine Love (§8) \nWk 8 (9 Mar) – Divine Perfections and Exegesis (§9) \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/sonderegger-reading-group/2023-03-09/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Hall\, St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Aquinas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Aquinas Institute":MAILTO:aquinas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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