Aquinas Institute

People are situated as well as related and embodied creatures; we inhabit physical, social, moral and spiritual worlds each with their action potentials or affordances. Virtue acquisition is thus partly an habitual and social process entailing increasing sensitivity to the moral affordances of situations, the fineness and fittingness of accompanying actions, and their outcomes. It...

Special Lecture by Dr William Carroll. A joint event organised by the Aquinas Institute and the Ian Ramsey Centre, University of Oxford.

AQUINAS INSTITUTE ANNUAL COLLOQUIUM "Development" conveys notions of improving, refining, advancing - change for the better. While Aquinas did not think that eternal wisdom could improve, he did hold - perhaps surprisingly - that natural and divine law could develop in some fashion. The Colloquium will explore the development of human, natural, and divine law...

Special lecture by Prof Andrew Willard Jones, The Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, and author of “Before Church and State: A Study of Social Order in the Sacramental Kingdom of King Louis IX”.

Lecture by Prof Timothy Pawl

A conference organised by Prof Piotr Roszak and Dr Jörgen Vijgen, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun and co-sponsored by the Aquinas Institute Donations requested at door to cover lunch. Programme: Piotr Roszak, UMK Torun: ‘Christ’s Will to Die and Our Salvation in Aquinas’s Super Psalmum 21’ Mark Johnson, Marquette University: ‘Aquinas’s Scriptum on 1 Cor 7: The Scripture as...

JOINT RESEARCH SEMINAR Janice Chik (Aquinas Institute): 'Action Descriptions and the Specification of Goodness: Contemporary Development of bonum ex integra causa' Michael Wee (Anscombe Bioethics Centre): 'Are Virtues Menatal Causes? Addressing the Situationism Debate' Registration (free of charge) admin@bioethics.org.uk

A Study week led by a team of Dominican Friars and Sisters in collaboration with the Benedictine monks of Buckfast Abbey offering a systematic overview of Catholic Theology aimed at university students and young adults (18-35). Using the Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas as a guide, talks and discussions will cover: The Trinity, Creation, The Human...