Thomistic Institute
The Thomistic Institute exists to promote Catholic truth in our contemporary world by strengthening the intellectual formation of university students. The Oxford Chapter is focused on both the intellectual formation of young Catholics, but also with engaging Protestants and those of other religious beliefs or none. The thought of St. Thomas Aquinas, the Universal Doctor of the Church, is our touchstone. This is achieved by means of public lectures on themes of great contemporary relevance. Events are free and open to the public.
Begun in the USA, the Oxford Chapter of the Thomistic Institute was established in December 2017 as a partnership between the Dominican friars of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. and the English Province of the Order of Preachers.
You can catch up with all past lectures from each Chapter on the Thomistic Institute SoundCloud.
Contacts
Upcoming talks
- Dr Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford), on Giving a Voice to Mary in Syriac Liturgical Tradition (Monday, 2nd February 2026)
- Prof Rebecca Rist (University of Reading), on Pope or Antipope?: Schism and the Medieval Papacy (Monday, 23rd February 2026)
- Prof Paul Gondreau (Providence College, USA), on Disability in the Mystical Body of Christ (Monday, 9th March 2026)
- Seminar on The meaning and purpose of marriage (Tuesday, 10th March 2026)
- Dr Rebekah Lamb (University of St Andrews), on The reception of the Pre-Raphaelites and their aesthetic impulses in the thought of G.K. Chesterton (Monday, 11th May 2026)
- Seminar on Looking at the Pre-Raphaelite permanent collection at the Ashmolean Museum (Tuesday, 12th May 2026)
Recordings of previous talks
- Sr Catherine Joseph Droste OP, who spoke on St Catherine of Sienna, Virtue and Self-Knowledge.
- Fr Anton ten Klooster, who spoke on St Thomas Aquinas on the Beatitudes.
- Dr Nuno Castel-Branco, who spoke on Holy Corpses: Incorrupt Bodies and Early Modern Science.
- Dr Robert McNamara, who spoke on Thomistic Personalism: A Steinian Perspective
- Prof Marianne Schlosser, who spoke on St Bonaventure’s Influence on the Theology of Joseph Ratzinger.
- Fr Gregory Pine OP, who spoke on The Mysteries of Christ in the Story of Salvation.
- Prof Karen Kilby, who spoke on Trinity, Mystery, and the Search for Understanding.