Term Card: Trinity Term 2026

Annual Aquinas Lecture
Can ‘Existence Itself’ be Personal? Interpreting Aquinas’s God
4pm, Thursday the 7th of May (Week 2 TT)

This year’s Annual Aquinas Lecture will be given by John Cottingham (Prof Emeritus, Reading; Hon Fellow, John’s Oxford). Prof Cottingham is a distinguished scholar of Philosophy and Religion, and the author of over thirty books and over one-hundred-and-sixty articles.

Open to all, but registration is required. Please follow the link for further information.

The Aquinas Lecture Series

The Aquinas Institute will be running a series of lectures this Trinity Term in the Aula of Blackfriars Hall that will present the breadth of Thomistic thought and its applications. They are convened by Dr Daniel De Haan.

4pm, Wednesday 29 April, Wk 1
Fr Dominic Verner OP, Providence, ‘Man’s Terrible Dignity as God’s Honour Bearer’
Further information linked here

4pm, Tuesday 19 May, Wk 4
Dr John Berkman, Toronto, ‘Christian Life Beyond Virtue: Aquinas on the Gifts of the Holy Spirit’
Dr Nicholas Austin SJ, Campion, will respond
Further information linked here

5pm, Monday 8 June, Wk 7
Dr Sara Chan, Scranton, ‘Care and Filial Piety as Burdened Virtues’
Further information linked here

4pm, Tuesday 16 June, Wk 8
Professor Matthew Minerd, Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Pittsburgh, ‘Ens Morale: The Scholastic Metaphysics of Morals’
Further information linked here

Conference
MacIntyre in the Conflicts of Modernity, 11–12 June

The Aquinas Institute is co-sponsoring this conference with the Canterbury Institute, and The Centre for Theology, Law, and Culture at Pusey House, taking place at Campion Hall, Christ Church, and Pusey House.

To register and for more information, please follow the link

Conference
Action: Human and Divine, Civic and Ecclesiastical, 25–26 June

Co-sponsored by the Aquinas Institute and the Ave Maria University, a conference will be held at Blackfriars Hall on 25 and 26 June.

More information to follow, please stay tuned to the website