Term Card: Trinity Term 2022
Aquinas Seminar
The 2021 Seminar Series has focussed on Thomistic Christology under the title ‘Aquinas on Christ.’ The seminar meets at 4.30pm on Thursdays in the Aula at Blackfriars.
- Week 1 (28th April), Dr Dominic Legge OP (DHS), ‘Aquinas’s Spirit-Christology: Christ’s Saving Teaching and the Holy Spirit’
- Week 2 (5th May), Dr Eric Mabry (St. Mary’s Seminary and University), ‘Mysterium Esse Christi: The Theological Hypothesis of Thomas Aquinas regarding the Supernatural Being of Jesus Christ’
- Week 3 (12th May), Fr Dominic Ryan OP (Blackfriars), ‘Christ’s being and Summa Theologiae 3a Q17 art. 2’
- Week 4 (19th May),* Dr Rik Van Nieuwenhove (Durham), ‘Sickness and Healing: Thomas Aquinas on Sin and Salvation’
- Week 5 (26th May), Dr Rachel Cresswell (Oxford), ‘Anselm and Aquinas on the Atonement’
- Week 6 (31st May) (Additional Tuesday Meeting), Prof Joseph Wawrykow (Notre Dame), (title tbc)
- Week 6 (2nd June), Prof Michael Gorman (Catholic University of America), ‘The Interaction of Philosophy and Theology in Aquinas’s Christology’
- Week 7 (9th June),* Dr Austin Stevenson (Cambridge), ‘Whatever is, is one’: On Varieties of Accidental Union’
- Week 8 (16th June), Dr Henk Schoot (Tilburg), ‘Christ the Image of the Father: Aquinas and Others’
* – the meetings on 9th June and 19th May will be held in a location that is to be determined.
‘widening Horizons’ – truth reading class
Part of the Widening Horizons in Philosophical Theology project that is hosted at the Institute. A weekly reading class exploring Truth in Continental Philosophy is being convened on Wednesdays at 3pm at Blackfriars. The class will examine a selection of philosophical explorations of the concept of ‘truth’ associated with the continental tradition. Co-Convened by Dr Oliver Keenan and Dr Daniel De Haan. Register by email to aquinas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
- 27 April: Martin Heidegger
- 4 May: Edith Stein
- 11 May: Hans Georg Gadamer
- 18 May: W. Dilthey
- 25 May: Jean-Yves Lacoste
- 1 June: Paul Ricoeur
- 8 June: Claude Romano
- 15 June: Emmanuel Falque