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...
Why Did God Die? Salvation According to St. Thomas Aquinas The Oxford Chapter of the Thomistic Institute, in collaboration with The Aquinas Institute, welcome Dr. Rik Van Nieuwenhove (University of Durham) About the Speaker: Rik Van Nieuwenhove lectures in Medieval Thought at Durham University, UK. He has published scholarly articles on medieval theology and spirituality,...
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...
The right to conscientious objection seems increasingly to conflict with rights to certain services and medical procedures. Should society curtail conscience’s rights? Or should society nurture the skill of making responsible moral judgments, which involves granting people space in which to learn to exercise it well? The sponsoring institutions are very grateful to Baroness Nuala O’Loan for agreeing to...
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...
Prof Jorge Martínez Barrera (Faculty of Philosophy, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile) delivers a lecture on 'Aquinas and the Latin Averroists' Wine reception after the lecture
The Thomistic Institute are very pleased to welcome Fr Romanus Cessario to Oxford. Fr Romanus Cessario, OP completed doctoral studies at the University of Fribourg and continues to carry on research in psychology and moral theology. He is author of more than a hundred articles in theology and related fields and has published eighteen books...