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Blackfriars Hall St Giles, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Aquinas Seminar Series: Rev Dr Nicholas Austin, SJ on ‘Divine and Human Gift: Magnanimity in Thomas Aquinas and Ignatius Loyola’
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Aquinas Seminar Series: Prof Peter Hampson on ‘Appreciating the fine and discerning the good: toward a theology of affordance’
Blackfriars Hall St Giles, Oxford, United KingdomPeople 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...
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The Condemnations of 1277 and the Origins of Modern Science
Blackfriars Hall St Giles, Oxford, United KingdomSpecial Lecture by Dr William Carroll. A joint event organised by the Aquinas Institute and the Ian Ramsey Centre, University of Oxford.
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Annual Aquinas Colloquium: “Aquinas and the Development of Law”
Blackfriars Hall St Giles, Oxford, United KingdomAQUINAS 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...
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Why Did God Die?
Blackfriars Hall St Giles, Oxford, United KingdomWhy 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,...
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Against Liberalism: The Spiritual and Temporal Swords in the Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas
Blackfriars Hall St Giles, Oxford, United KingdomSpecial 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”.
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Is the Incarnation of God Impossible?
Blackfriars Hall St Giles, Oxford, United KingdomLecture by Prof Timothy Pawl
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Studying Scripture with Aquinas
Blackfriars Hall St Giles, Oxford, United KingdomA 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...
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Promoting a Responsible and Free Conscience in Today’s Society
Lecture Hall, Taylor Institution St Giles, OxfordThe 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...