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SUMMARY:Man's Terrible Dignity as God's Honour Bearer
DESCRIPTION: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 liable to vicarious defamation belongs to the Lord of heaven and earth. For Thomas Aquinas\, this is precisely the terrible dignity and responsibility of the Image Bearer. Created with the special dignity of being ministers of divine governance\, participating in divine providence as rationally provident for self and others\, the image bearer is an agent of divine honour\, who\, whether he realizes it or not\, acts in the name of God and so is responsible to God for his actions. Virtuous actions are thus best understood as participating in God’s honourable goodness such that they become a co-operation of honourable friendship  between God and his honour bearers. \nFr Dominic Verner OP\, Providence College will deliver this lecture at 4pm\, Wednesday the 29th of April. 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. \nFr Dominic Verner OP is an Assistant Professor at Providence College. After earning a B.S. in electrical engineering from Purdue University and an M.A. in philosophical studies from Mount St. Mary’s University\, Fr. Dominic Verner\, O.P. entered the Order of Preachers and was ordained to the priesthood in 2016. He earned an S.T.L. from the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception and a Ph.D. in moral theology/Christian ethics from the University of Notre Dame\, where he wrote his dissertation ‘Saving Honor: A Thomistic Ethics of Honor’. His research and teaching interests especially concern the motivational role that honour\, reputation\, and social recognition play in practical reason and how the doctrine and example of Christ norm the pursuit of these goods. Fr. Dominic favours an interdisciplinary approach to these and related questions concerning honourable human agency\, seeking to engage Thomistic anthropology and action theory with contemporary social theory\, psychology\, and neuroscience. \nUpcoming events in this series\nJohn Berkman\, University of Toronto; Visiting Fellow\, Campion Hall\,\n4pm\, Tuesday 19 May: ‘Christian Life Beyond Virtue: Aquinas on the Gifts of the Holy Spirit’ \nSara Chan\, University of Scranton\n5pm\, Monday 8 June: ‘Care and Filial Piety as burdened virtues’ \nMatthew Minerd\, Seminary of Ss. Cyril and Methodius\, Pittsburgh\,\n4pm\, Tuesday 16 June: ‘Ens Morale: The Scholastic Metaphysics of Morals’
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/mans-terrible-dignity-as-gods-honour-bearer/
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SUMMARY:Annual Aquinas Lecture: Interpreting Aquinas’s God
DESCRIPTION:Can “Existence Itself” be Personal?\nInterpreting Aquinas’s God\n \nThis 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 articles. One of his recent books\, The Humane Perspective\, published by Oxford University Press\, brings together a number of his essays published in the past twenty years and has been called a ‘singular service to contemporary anglophone philosophy and its future’. For more information about Prof Cottingham and a record of his work\, please check out his website. \nOpen to all but registration is required\, please follow the link \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/annual-aquinas-lecture-interpreting-aquinass-god/
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SUMMARY:Christian Life Beyond Virtue: Aquinas on the Gifts of the Holy Spirit
DESCRIPTION: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. \nJohn Berkman obtained a BA in philosophy at the University of Toronto\, and completed his PhD in the Graduate Program in Religion at Duke University. Before joining the Regis College Faculty in 2009\, he taught at the Dominican School of Theology and Philosophy and at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley\, CA and in the School of Theology and Religious Studies at The Catholic University of America in Washington\, DC. He has also been a Visiting Professor at the Duke Divinity School and the Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life. \nUpcoming events in this series\nSara Chan\, University of Scranton\n5pm\, Monday 8 June: ‘Care and Filial Piety as burdened virtues’ \nMatthew Minerd\, Seminary of Ss. Cyril and Methodius\, Pittsburgh\,\n4pm\, Tuesday 16 June: ‘Ens Morale: The Scholastic Metaphysics of Morals’
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/christian-life-beyond-virtue-aquinas-on-the-gifts-of-the-holy-spirit/
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SUMMARY:Aquinas Summer Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Thomas Aquinas on the Trinity (June 1–4\, 2026)\nThe 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. \nWe invite applications from doctoral students and recent Ph.D. graduates for this exciting event. Successful applicants (whether from within the UK or internationally) will have their meals and accommodation covered during their residential stay in Oxford\, and travel costs up to $1000 can be reimbursed by students without support from their home institutions. Participants will be expected arrive in Oxford on Sunday\, May 31\, and depart on Friday\, June 5. \nThe focus of the seminar will be St Thomas Aquinas’s treatise on the Trinity from the Summa theologiae I\, qq. 27-43. The seminar also aims to engage questions and challenges from contemporary Trinitarian theology. Participants will be expected to have read the whole of Summa theologiae I\, qq. 27-43 before coming to Oxford for the summer seminar. After successful applicants have been notified and have confirmed their attendance\, each participant will be assigned a different question from ST I.27-43\, which they will need to prepare ahead of time for a seminar presentation. \nThe seminar will be led by three distinguished scholars: \n\nRector Magnificus\, Fr. Thomas Joseph White\, O.P. (Angelicum)\n Prof. Bruce Marshall (Southern Methodist University)\n Prof. Daniel Gordon (Ave Maria University)\n\nApplications are welcomed from doctoral students in the UK and international programmes (as well as those who have recently completed doctoral studies in the 2024-2025 academic year). Eligible applicants should be studying theology or philosophy\, or adjacent disciplines (such as the study of religion or biblical studies)\, but need not be specialising in the thought of Aquinas or focusing on Trinitarian theology. \nApplication by CV\, covering letter\, and one letter of reference to aquinas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk by February 15\, 2026.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/aquinas-summer-seminar/
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SUMMARY:Care and Filial Piety as burdened virtues
DESCRIPTION: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 follow that just any communitarian society is ideal. Notably\, many East Asian societies influenced by Confucianism live out two key care ethical ideals\, namely a recognition of the self as fundamentally relational and an acceptance that unchosen relationships can nonetheless generate obligations. Despite this\, however\, caregivers in the East face their own challenges and examining the challenges these real life communitarian societies face with can be instructive for developing care ethics’ ideal of a fully supportive society. In this paper\, I examine care and filial piety the west and the east\, showing how they can each be burdened virtues for caregivers in their respective societies. Ultimately\, I argue that the fact that these parallel analyses can be made despite western and eastern societies’ opposite focuses on individualism and?communitarianism shows that communitarianism itself cannot be the full solution. A host of other safeguards need to be further developed\, such that filial piety in the?East?and?care in the?West?may be?unqualifiedly?virtues?in their cultural contexts. \nSara Chan\, University of Scranton\, will deliver this lecture at 5pm\, Monday the 8th of June. 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. \nSara Chan is an Assistant Professor at the University of Scranton. Her research interests lie in ethics\, social epistemology and the philosophy of religion. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Notre Dame\, where she was the recipient of two graduate fellowships. Prior to that\, she graduated from the University of Oxford with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and the University of St. Andrews with a master’s degree in philosophy and psychology. She publishes on the philosophy of disability and has spoken at conferences across the world. \nUpcoming events in this series\nMatthew Minerd\, Seminary of Ss. Cyril and Methodius\, Pittsburgh\,\n4pm\, Tuesday 16 June: ‘Ens Morale: The Scholastic Metaphysics of Morals’
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/care-and-filial-piety-as-burdened-virtues/
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SUMMARY:MacIntyre in the Conflicts of Modernity
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe death of Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre (12 January 1929 – 21 May 2025) provides all who are indebted to his work with an opportunity to consider how he has made them rethink those areas of philosophy to which he made outstanding contributions. This conference considers how we ought to commemorate the work that MacIntyre began\, whether that be by developing and deepening it\, by refining and correcting what he overlooked or dismissed\, or by sharply disagreeing with the positions he held. It will consider how his work provokes us to redefine our positions in light of the arguments he made.  As he wrote in his last book: ‘In philosophy it is only rarely that anyone or any argument has the last word. Debate almost always continues\, and this is notably so with the topics and issues with which I am concerned in this book’ – MacIntyre\, Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity (2016).  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers include: Professor Jason Blakely\, Pepperdine; Dr Dominic Burbidge\, Regent’s Park; Professor David Cloutier\, Notre Dame; Professor John Cottingham\, Reading; Dr Daniel De Haan\, Blackfriars & Campion; Professor Anne Jeffrey\, Baylor; Professor Christopher Kaczor\, Loyola; Andreas Masvie\, Christ Church; Professor Melissa Moschella\, Notre Dame; Professor Stephen Mulhall\, New College; Professor Mark C. Murphy\, Georgetown; Professor Tracey Rowland\, Notre Dame\, Australia. \nTo register and for more information\, please follow the link
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/macintyre-in-the-conflicts-of-modernity/
LOCATION:Campion Hall\, Brewer Street\, Oxford\, OX1 1QS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Aquinas Institute
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SUMMARY:Ens Morale: The Scholastic Metaphysics of Morals
DESCRIPTION: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 on Human Acts. \nMatthew Minerd\, Seminary of Ss. Cyril and Methodius\, Pittsburgh\, will deliver this lecture at 4pm\, Tuesday the 16th of June. The event is free and open to everyone\, no registration is required. \nMatthew Minerd\, is a Ruthenian Catholic\, husband\, and father\, serving as a professor of philosophy and moral theology at the Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius in Pittsburgh. His academic and popular writing has been published in the journals Nova et Vetera\, The American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly\, The Review of Metaphysics\, Études Maritainiennes\, Downside Review\, and Homiletic and Pastoral Review. He has also served as a translator or editor for volumes published by The Catholic University of America Press\, Emmaus Academic\, and Cluny Media.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/ens-morale-the-scholastic-metaphysics-of-morals/
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SUMMARY:Action: Human and Divine\, Civic and Ecclesiastical
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Aquinas Institute and the Ave Maria University\, a conference will be held at Blackfriars Hall on 25 and 26 June.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/action-human-and-divine-civic-and-ecclesiastical/
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