Rev Dr Aidan Nichols OP

Born at Lytham St Anne’s (Lancashire) in 1948, educated at Arnold School and the Universities of Oxford and Edinburgh, Aidan Nichols entered the Order of Preachers in 1970 and was ordained priest in 1976.  He has taught at the seminaries of the archdioceses of Birmingham and Kingston, Jamaica, the Pontifical University of St Thomas, Rome; Providence College, Rhode Island; the Capuchin Franciscan Institute of Philosophy and Theology, Addis Ababa; Blackfriars Oxford, and the Divinity/Theology Faculties at Cambridge and Oxford.  He was the John Paul II Memorial Lecturer in Roman Catholic Theology, University of Oxford, 2006-2008. His writings touch on a wide variety of themes in fundamental, dogmatic and ecumenical theology, and include studies of literary figures and the practitioners and theorists of sacred art. Among his many publications are: Yves Congar (Geoffrey Chapman, 1989), Romance and System. The Theological Synthesis of Matthias Joseph Scheeben (Nova et Vetera Books, 2010); A Philosopher in Provence. The Life and Work of Maurice Blondel (Ignatius Press, 2026).