Finding Christ in Prison: Why Higher Education in Prisons is a Social Justice Imperative for Christians A lecture by Professor Kenneth Parker In Jesus's parable of the kingdom (Matthew 25), being present to the prisoner comes with a promise: 'Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these...
A weekly discussion of a chosen theological/philosophical text, with voluntary presentations by group members and some steady direction by people who might have a little more experience with the topic. The first book for this term is Charles Taylor's Ethics of Authenticity, which is a painless and short introduction into the debate over the vices and...
Why Did God Die? Salvation According to St. Thomas Aquinas The Oxford Chapter of the Thomistic Institute, in collaboration with The Aquinas Institute, welcome Dr. Rik Van Nieuwenhove (University of Durham) About the Speaker: Rik Van Nieuwenhove lectures in Medieval Thought at Durham University, UK. He has published scholarly articles on medieval theology and spirituality,...
AQUINAS INSTITUTE ANNUAL COLLOQUIUM "Development" conveys notions of improving, refining, advancing - change for the better. While Aquinas did not think that eternal wisdom could improve, he did hold - perhaps surprisingly - that natural and divine law could develop in some fashion. The Colloquium will explore the development of human, natural, and divine law...
Special Lecture by Dr William Carroll. A joint event organised by the Aquinas Institute and the Ian Ramsey Centre, University of Oxford.
A weekly discussion of a chosen theological/philosophical text, with voluntary presentations by group members and some steady direction by people who might have a little more experience with the topic. The first book for this term is Charles Taylor's Ethics of Authenticity, which is a painless and short introduction into the debate over the vices and...
People are situated as well as related and embodied creatures; we inhabit physical, social, moral and spiritual worlds each with their action potentials or affordances. Virtue acquisition is thus partly an habitual and social process entailing increasing sensitivity to the moral affordances of situations, the fineness and fittingness of accompanying actions, and their outcomes. It...
A weekly discussion of a chosen theological/philosophical text, with voluntary presentations by group members and some steady direction by people who might have a little more experience with the topic. The first book for this term is Charles Taylor's Ethics of Authenticity, which is a painless and short introduction into the debate over the vices and...
Thomas Aquinas views the human being as integrally composed of spiritual soul and matter. As in all earthly species, matter is responsible for individuation: for the fact that many instances of ‘human’ can exist. Bodiliness can thus be viewed primarily as something that separates us from each other. Yet no less true for Aquinas are...