Join us for a day event on the Liturgy at St Dominic's Church - The Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary. Encountering the infinite: Beauty as a theological category in St Thomas - Fr Lawrence Lew, OP Beyond Beauty: The Importance of the Sacred in the Liturgy - Fr Uwe Michael Lang, Cong. Orat. Liturgical...
To celebrate the canonisation of John Henry Newman, Bishop Robert Barron gives a lecture on "Newman and the New Evangelisation" in the Church where Newman gave some of his greatest sermons. You are invited to fill the very pews which were once crowded with undergraduates and churchmen to hear Newman preach, and to listen to...
Traditional Christian theology affirms that Jesus of Nazareth is both truly God and truly human. This leads to theological questions about the predication of human and divine attributes to the person of Christ. Did God suffer and die on a cross? Is this man the creator of the world? By examining the traditional 'rules of...
A Seminar on Christ's Knowledge Thomas Aquinas's theory of the knowledge of Christ may seem to have little relevance for modern historical-critical study of the figure of Jesus of Nazareth. Â In his mature work, represented emblematically by the third part of the Summa Theologiae, Aquinas presents the knowledge of Christ in a fourfold descending perspective...
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...
Can science explain everything? Many people think so. Science, and the technologies it has spawned, has delivered so much to the world: clean water; more food; better healthcare; longer life. And we live in a time of rapid scientific progress that holds enormous promise for many of the problems we face as humankind. So much...
In collaboration with the Thomistic Institute in Washington, D.C. we will be live-streaming a conversation between Fr Dominic Legge, OP and Fr Simon Gaine, OP on the question "Did Christ See the Father?" This conversation will be livestreamed 8pm BST/3pm ET/12pm PT through Zoom, on the Thomistic Institute’s YouTube channel, and through Facebook Live. Subscribe...
The Thomistic Institute invites you to join us for our next Quarantine Lecture. What Happened to the Second Coming? with Fr Richard Ounsworth, OP Christ promised his disciples that "there are some standing here who will not taste death till they see the Son of Man come in power" and for the last 2,000 years...
A Thomistic Institue lecture from Dr George Corbett (St Andrews) on St Thomas Aquinas and Dante. Thomists such as Etienne Gilson (1884-1978) and Pierre Mandonnet, O.P. (1858-1936) fought extremely significant battles in the field of Aquinas Studies, battles which would question the very nature of Catholic theology itself; they also fought less well-known skirmishes in...
Thomistic Institute lecture by Dr Gaven Kerr Free and open for all.