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SUMMARY:Action: Human and Divine\, Civic and Ecclesiastical
DESCRIPTION:A Research Symposium\nA joint collaboration between Ave Maria University and the Aquinas Institute\, Blackfriars Hall\, Oxford\, to be held at Blackfriars Hall\, Oxford\, on 25-26 June 2026. Open to the public. \nSpeakers include: Gerald Boersma\, Janice Chik Breidenbach\, Michael Breidenbach\, Richard Conrad\, Daniel De Haan\, Gaven Kerr\, Dawn LaValle Norman\, Roger Nutt\, William Simpson\, Jeffrey Walkey \nDay 1\, Thursday\, June 25\, 2026\nAula\, Blackfriars Hall\n08:45-09:00   Introduction \n09:00-10:00   Dawn LaValle Norman\, “What Monica Learned: Enslaved Women as Educational Agents in Augustine’s Confessions” \nRespondent: Michael Breidenbach \n10:00-11:00   Michael Breidenbach\, “Enslaved to a Bishop: Slave Agency and Sacramental Action in Early America” \nRespondent: Dawn LaValle Norman \n11:00-11:30   Tea & Coffee break \n11:30-12:30   Daniel De Haan\, “Developmental Flourishing: Answering the Riddle of the Eudaimonic Sphinx”  \n12:30-14:30   Lunch Break               \n14:30-15:00   Tea & Coffee  \n15:00-16:00   Janice Chik Breidenbach\, “Civic Action and Social Ontology: The Organic Homonymy Principle in Political Life” \nRespondent: Daniel De Haan \n16:00-17:00   William Simpson\, “Created Instruments of Grace: Hylomorphism and Sacramental Action” \nRespondent: Janice Chik Breidenbach \n17:00-18:00   Drinks Reception \nDay 2\, Friday\, June 26\, 2026\nAula\, Blackfriars Hall\n09:00-10:00   Gaven Kerr\, “An Anscombian Analysis of God’s Causal Acts” \nRespondent: Gerald Boersma \n10:00-11:00   Jeffrey Walkey\, “Providence and Proofs for the Existence of ‘God’: Reflections on the Scope of Divine Action and (Un)Successful Reference to the God of Jesus Christ” \nRespondent: Joshua Madden \n11:00-11:30   Tea & Coffee break \n11:30-12:30   Gerald Boersma\, “Aristotle’s horme in Aquinas’s Theology of the Gifts of the Holy Spirit.” \nRespondent: Gaven Kerr \n12:30-14:30   Lunch Break                \n14:30-15:30   Roger Nutt\, “The Virtue of Penance and Sacramental Absolution: Historical and Speculative Considerations from Thomas Aquinas’s De forma absolutionis.” \nRespondent: Fr Richard Conrad\, OP  \n15:30-16:00   Tea & Coffee \n16:00-17:00         Fr Richard Conrad\, “The Sacrament and Virtue of Repentance for the Remission of Sins: Translating the Latin Graciously and Hopefully.” \nRespondent: Roger Nutt \n17:00-18:00   Drinks Reception
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SUMMARY:Animal Suffering From Rabbi Moses to Aquinas and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:In the Guide\, Maimonides argues that Providence pertains to irrational animals only in terms of their species. This claim is criticized later by Thomas Aquinas for implying that Providence does not pertain immediately to singular individuals. While Aquinas’ approach is arguably not as distinct from Maimonides as might appear\, Aquinas does not address what seems to be Maimonides’ motivation: that animals suffer blamelessly and cannot benefit from their suffering. Aquinas’ approach to the place of non-human animals in Providence appears to be lacking\, as he apparently holds a principle that animals are valuable only in terms of their usefulness to human life\, and that natural evils (including the suffering of animals) are instrumentally necessary for biological goods. There are well-known reasons in the literature to question whether these responses are satisfactory. My paper will outline a theodicy for animal suffering that moves beyond Aquinas and Maimonides\, but incorporates elements from the theories of both\, arguing that animal suffering has a role in God’s Providence where the life of each animal is of intrinsic value\, and where their suffering was not necessary for biological life. Rather\, their suffering takes on a sacrificial aspect in a fallen world harmed by idolatry. \nFr James Dominic Rooney OP will deliver this lecture at 3pm\, Monday the 29th of June in the Aula of Blackfriars Hall. The event is free and open to everyone\, no registration is required. \n \nFr James Dominic Rooney OP was born in Akron\, OH. He graduated from the Catholic University of America with a Bachelors of Philosophy\, and then proceeded to obtain a Master of Arts degree in Philosophy from the University of Toledo\, before entering the Order of Friars Preachers (Dominicans). After spending his novitiate year in Denver\, Colorado\, he completed his studies in theology at the Aquinas Institute of Theology (St. Louis\, MO) with a dual Master of Arts/Master of Divinity degree. He was subsequently ordained to the priesthood and completed doctoral studies at Saint Louis University in 2015 under Dr. Eleonore Stump. He has taught previously at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome\, Italy\, and remains a fellow of the Angelicum Thomistic Institute.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/animal-suffering-from-rabbi-moses-to-aquinas-and-beyond/
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