Realism about a certain kind of 'abstract object', namely, universals or properties, has been thought to pose a problem for theism.  To be a realist about universals or properties is just to believe that they exist.  First, I talk about two different kinds of reason to believe in them, which lead to two different roles they...
On Monday 9th March, the Oxford Thomistic Institute will be hosting Prof Paul Gondreau, of Providence College, USA, to speak on Disability in the Mystical Body of Christ. The lecture will begin at 7.30pm in the Aula at Blackfriars, and will be followed by refreshments. All are welcome. About the speaker Paul Gondreau (S.T.D., University...
Michelle Castelletti FRSA, New College, Oxford, Director of the Oxford Festival of the Arts. Gubaidulina - Pärt – Penderecki – Hildegard von Bingen – Gorecki – MacMillan – Bach. What do these composers have in common? Is it that they are responding to a need for the soul to be elevated through the sensorial experience, hoping to...
Jack Norman (Blackfriars), ‘McCabe’s Social Ontology: Sin, Sacraments, and the New Left’ Herbert McCabe OP’s thought was shaped by and phrased in Marxist social theory, and he shows undeniable sympathy to Marxism. This has been picked up by several recent writings on McCabe. However, read in context, I will show that McCabe gave a critical account...
On Monday 23rd February, the Oxford Thomistic Institute will be hosting Prof Rebecca Rist, of the University of Reading, to speak on Pope or Antipope?: Schism and the Medieval Papacy. The lecture will begin at 7.30pm in the Aula at Blackfriars, and will be followed by refreshments. All are welcome. About the speaker Professor Rebecca...
This seminar brings together emerging scholars of historical ecologies, placing them in conversation to reflect on the relationship humanity has and had with the natural world. By tracing how human–environment relations have been imagined, governed, and lived in the past, the seminar foregrounds nature not as a distant backdrop but as a proximate and entangled neighbour. Responding...
Jan Bentz (Blackfriars), ‘Aquinas and the Real Distinction: Historical-Philosophical Notes’ Part of this term’s lecture series, Thursdays at 5pm unless otherwise noted, presenting the breadth of Thomistic thought and its applications. upcoming events in this series Wk 6 Jack Norman (Blackfriars), ‘McCabe’s Social Ontology: Sin, Sacraments, and the New Left’ Wk 8 Fr Richard Conrad OP (Blackfriars), ‘“Faith Believes, nor...
Fr Michael Sherwin OP (Angelicum), ‘Nietzsche or St Thomas: Thoughts on Alasdair MacIntyre’ Part of this term’s lecture series, Thursdays at 5pm unless otherwise noted, presenting the breadth of Thomistic thought and its applications. upcoming events in this series Wk 5 Jan Bentz (Blackfriars), ‘Aquinas and the Real Distinction: Historical-Philosophical Notes’ Wk 6 Jack Norman (Blackfriars), ‘McCabe’s Social Ontology:...
On Monday 2nd February, the Oxford Thomistic Institute will be hosting Dr Sebastian Brock, of Wolfson College, Oxford, to speak on Giving a Voice to Mary in Syriac Liturgical Tradition. The lecture will begin at 7.30pm in the Aula at Blackfriars, and will be followed by refreshments. All are welcome. About the speaker Sebastian Brock...
Dr Clare Broome Saunders, Senior Tutor, Blackfriars Hall Phoebe Anna Traquair (1852–1936) was one of the leading contributors to the British Arts and Crafts movement, and one of the first three women elected to the Royal Scottish Academy. Born Phoebe Anna Moss in Dublin, she was inspired by childhood visits to the medieval manuscripts housed at Trinity College,...