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SUMMARY:The Magisterium and Catholic Social Doctrine
DESCRIPTION:Debates about Catholic social doctrine often revolve around whether a given theory or practice is compatible with the magisterium or not.  There is a scholarly literature on the nature and scope of the magisterium\, but little has been written on the magisterium as it pertains to social doctrine. This paper explores what the magisterial documents and scholarship says about the sources\, levels\, and scope of the magisterium in relation to social doctrine.  The better we understand the magisterium in relation social doctrine\, the more charitable and fruitful debate will be. \nThe presenter\, P. Bracy Bersnak is associate professor in the Department of Political Science and Economics at Christendom College in Front Royal\, Virginia.  He received master’s degrees in modern European history and political theory and his Ph.D. in political theory from the Catholic University of America. \nThe respondent\, Dr James Bergida is a Junior Research Fellow of the Hall and an Adjunct Professor of Political Science and Economics at Christendom College.
URL:https://www.blackfriars.org.uk/event/magisterium-and-catholic-social-doctrine/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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SUMMARY:Truth Reading Class (Widening Horizons)
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Widening Horizons in Philosophical Theology project “Truth in Aquinas and the Theological Turn in Continental Philosophy“: a weekly reading class exploring truth in the Continental tradition\, held on Wednesdays at 3pm.  Co-Convened by Dr Oliver Keenan and Dr Daniel De Haan. Register by email at aquinas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk \n\n27 April: Martin Heidegger\n4 May: Edith Stein\n11 May: Hans Georg Gadamer\n18 May: W. Dilthey\n25 May: Jean-Yves Lacoste\n1 June: Paul Ricoeur\n8 June: Claude Romano\n15 June: Emmanuel Falque\n\n  \nThis event is open to Members of the University of Oxford only.
URL:https://www.blackfriars.org.uk/event/truth-reading-class-widening-horizons/2022-05-04/
CATEGORIES:The Aquinas Institute
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220504T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220504T180000
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SUMMARY:Dorothy Day: The Long Loneliness
DESCRIPTION:Discussion group\nWeekly online discussions on sections of Dorothy Day’s The Long Loneliness. \nDorothy Day is one of the most interesting Catholics of the 20th century. An American convert to Catholicism from radical socialism\, she founded the Catholic Worker movement\, which developed and practices a sort of Catholic anarchism. Her readily available autobiography\, The Long Loneliness\, is nicely written\, honest\, clear\, thought-provoking and not too long. We will read the book carefully\, and discuss everything from politics to liturgy\, from conversion to modern holiness. \nThe group will be led by Edward Hadas\, Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall and author of Counsels of Imperfection: Thinking through Catholic Social Teaching\, and by James Bergida\, Junior Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall and an Adjunct Professor of Political Science and Economics at Christendom College. \n  \nSchedule: \nWeek One (April 27): Introduction and All chapters from “Confession” through “Home” \nWeek Two (May 4): “Adolescence” through “Journalism” \nWeek Three (May 11): “The Masses” through “A Time for Searching” \nWeek Four (May 18): “Man Is Meant for Happiness” through “Love Overflows” \nWeek Five (May 25) “Jobs and Journeys” and “Peasants of the Pavements” \nWeek Six (June 1): “Paper\, People\, and Work” and “Labor” \nWeek Seven (June 8): “Community” through “Retreat” \nWeek Eight (June 15): “’War Is the Health of the State’” through “Postcript” \n  \nFree and open for all. Registration is required. \nFor more information: Contact Edward Hadas (edward.hadas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk) \n 
URL:https://www.blackfriars.org.uk/event/dorothy-day-the-long-loneliness-2022-05-04/2022-05-04/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220505T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220505T180000
DTSTAMP:20260503T200716
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SUMMARY:Mysterium Esse Christi
DESCRIPTION:Aquinas Seminar Series on ‘Aquinas on Christ’\n  \nThursday\, 5 May\nDr Eric Mabry (St. Mary’s Seminary and University): Mysterium Esse Christi: The Theological Hypothesis of Thomas Aquinas regarding the Supernatural Being of Jesus Christ \n  \nUpcoming seminars: \nThursday\, 12 May\nFr Dominic Ryan OP (Blackfriars): Christ’s being and Summa Theologiae 3a Q17 art. 2 \nThursday\, 19 May \nDr Rik Van Nieuwenhove (Durham): Sickness and Healing: Thomas Aquinas on Sin and Salvation \nThursday\, 26 May\nDr Rachel Cresswell (Oxford): Anselm and Aquinas on the Atonement \nTuesday\, 31 May\nProf Joseph Wawrykow (Notre Dame): The Work of the Cross \nThursday\, 2 June\nProf Michael Gorman (Catholic University of America): The Interaction of Philosophy and Theology in Aquinas’s Christology \nThursday\, 9 June \nDr Austin Stevenson (Cambridge): ‘Whatever is\, is one’: On Varieties of Accidental Union \nThursday\, 16 June\nDr Henk Schoot (Tilburg): Christ the Image of the Father: Aquinas and Others \n  \nThe seminars are held in the Aula of Blackfriars Hall\, except for 19 May and 9 June\, which are held in the Lecture Room of Campion Hall. \nRegistration is only required to attend via Zoom. Each event requires a separate registration.
URL:https://www.blackfriars.org.uk/event/mysterium-esse-christi/
CATEGORIES:The Aquinas Institute
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220510T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220510T170000
DTSTAMP:20260503T200716
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Tanfield Carey
DESCRIPTION:The Christian Literary Imagination Series\n \nContinuing from the previous academic year\, over the course of the 2021-22 academic year the Future of the Humanities Project is sponsoring a series of webinars on the Christian literary imagination in collaboration with Blackfriars Hall\, University of Oxford. The ‘Christian Literary Imagination Series’ will explore the role and function of the arts and humanities in the development of the individual and society. \nThe hour-long virtual events will be followed by a Q & As chaired by Professor Michael Scott and Rev Fr Joseph Simmons SJ. These events are free and hosted on Zoom by Georgetown University. \nA talk by Professor Elizabeth Schafer\, Royal Holloway University London. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.blackfriars.org.uk/event/elizabeth-tanfield-carey/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220511T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220511T170000
DTSTAMP:20260503T200716
CREATED:20220430T153350Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220430T163636Z
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SUMMARY:Truth Reading Class (Widening Horizons)
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Widening Horizons in Philosophical Theology project “Truth in Aquinas and the Theological Turn in Continental Philosophy“: a weekly reading class exploring truth in the Continental tradition\, held on Wednesdays at 3pm.  Co-Convened by Dr Oliver Keenan and Dr Daniel De Haan. Register by email at aquinas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk \n\n27 April: Martin Heidegger\n4 May: Edith Stein\n11 May: Hans Georg Gadamer\n18 May: W. Dilthey\n25 May: Jean-Yves Lacoste\n1 June: Paul Ricoeur\n8 June: Claude Romano\n15 June: Emmanuel Falque\n\n  \nThis event is open to Members of the University of Oxford only.
URL:https://www.blackfriars.org.uk/event/truth-reading-class-widening-horizons-2022-05-11/2022-05-11/
CATEGORIES:The Aquinas Institute
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220511T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220511T180000
DTSTAMP:20260503T200716
CREATED:20220404T133519Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220405T195313Z
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SUMMARY:Dorothy Day: The Long Loneliness
DESCRIPTION:Discussion group\nWeekly online discussions on sections of Dorothy Day’s The Long Loneliness. \nDorothy Day is one of the most interesting Catholics of the 20th century. An American convert to Catholicism from radical socialism\, she founded the Catholic Worker movement\, which developed and practices a sort of Catholic anarchism. Her readily available autobiography\, The Long Loneliness\, is nicely written\, honest\, clear\, thought-provoking and not too long. We will read the book carefully\, and discuss everything from politics to liturgy\, from conversion to modern holiness. \nThe group will be led by Edward Hadas\, Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall and author of Counsels of Imperfection: Thinking through Catholic Social Teaching\, and by James Bergida\, Junior Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall and an Adjunct Professor of Political Science and Economics at Christendom College. \n  \nSchedule: \nWeek One (April 27): Introduction and All chapters from “Confession” through “Home” \nWeek Two (May 4): “Adolescence” through “Journalism” \nWeek Three (May 11): “The Masses” through “A Time for Searching” \nWeek Four (May 18): “Man Is Meant for Happiness” through “Love Overflows” \nWeek Five (May 25) “Jobs and Journeys” and “Peasants of the Pavements” \nWeek Six (June 1): “Paper\, People\, and Work” and “Labor” \nWeek Seven (June 8): “Community” through “Retreat” \nWeek Eight (June 15): “’War Is the Health of the State’” through “Postcript” \n  \nFree and open for all. Registration is required. \nFor more information: Contact Edward Hadas (edward.hadas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk) \n 
URL:https://www.blackfriars.org.uk/event/dorothy-day-the-long-loneliness-2022-05-11/2022-05-11/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220512T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220512T180000
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SUMMARY:Christ’s being and Summa Theologiae 3a Q17 art. 2
DESCRIPTION:Aquinas Seminar Series on ‘Aquinas on Christ’\n  \nThursday\, 12 May\nFr Dominic Ryan OP (Blackfriars): Christ’s being and Summa Theologiae 3a Q17 art. 2 \n  \nUpcoming seminars: \nThursday\, 19 May \nDr Rik Van Nieuwenhove (Durham): Sickness and Healing: Thomas Aquinas on Sin and Salvation \nThursday\, 26 May\nDr Rachel Cresswell (Oxford): Anselm and Aquinas on the Atonement \nTuesday\, 31 May\nProf Joseph Wawrykow (Notre Dame): The Work of the Cross \nThursday\, 2 June\nProf Michael Gorman (Catholic University of America): The Interaction of Philosophy and Theology in Aquinas’s Christology \nThursday\, 9 June \nDr Austin Stevenson (Cambridge): ‘Whatever is\, is one’: On Varieties of Accidental Union \nThursday\, 16 June\nDr Henk Schoot (Tilburg): Christ the Image of the Father: Aquinas and Others \n  \nThe seminars are held in the Aula of Blackfriars Hall\, except for 19 May and 9 June\, which are held in the Lecture Room of Campion Hall. \nRegistration is only required to attend via Zoom. Each event requires a separate registration.
URL:https://www.blackfriars.org.uk/event/christs-being-and-summa-theologiae-3a-q17-art-2/
CATEGORIES:The Aquinas Institute
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220515
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SUMMARY:Dominican Pilgrimage to Walsingham
DESCRIPTION:The Dominicans’ annual pilgrimage to Walsingham will take place on Sunday\, 15th May. The main event that day at Walsingham includes the Mass at noon\, followed by a procession and Vespers. The Mass itself will be live-streamed from the chapel in Walsingham\, which means that there will not be a livestream from Blackfriars that day. Details of how to access that live-stream will be made available through our website and via our YouTube channel.
URL:https://www.blackfriars.org.uk/event/dominican-pilgrimage-to-walsingham/
CATEGORIES:Priory
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220516T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220516T174500
DTSTAMP:20260503T200716
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SUMMARY:How Did We Get into this War in Ukraine\, and What Are We Not Saying About It?
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the ongoing event series Free Speech at the Crossroads: International Dialogues. These events are sponsored by the Free Speech Project (Georgetown University)\, the Las Casas Institute and Campion Hall\, hosted by Georgetown University on Zoom. \n  \nJust how did the US\, the UK\, and much of Europe get involved in a shooting war with Russia without having to do any of the actual shooting themselves? Are there grave downside risks to our unconditional feel-good support for the brave and bold Ukrainians\, the clear winners of the propaganda battle? And will other dominoes be endangered soon\, at an even greater cost in blood and treasure? What other questions must be asked? \nFeatured Panelists:\nRaymond Asquith\, 3rd Earl of Oxford and Asquith\, was elected in October 2014 to the British House of Lords\, where he sits as an independent crossbencher. He worked in the United Kingdom’s diplomatic service for nearly 20 years after beginning his career in 1980. During his time in the field\, he worked in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office\, the Cabinet Office\, and served in numerous postings in Eastern Europe. He was First Secretary at the British Embassy in Moscow from 1983 to 1985\, during the Cold War\, and went on to be a Counselor at the Embassy in Kiev in the 1990s. \nSusan Eisenhower\, a policy analyst with a focus on national security\, is Chair Emeritus at the Eisenhower Institute. She serves on MIT’s Energy Initiative Advisory Board and formerly co-chaired the Nuclear Energy Advisory Committee for the US Secretary of Energy. In 1998\, she was appointed to the National Academy of Sciences Standing Committee on International Security and Arms Control\, where she served for eight years. She has authored hundreds of columns for The Washington Post\, The New York Times\, and the Los Angeles Times. \nChristopher Preble co-directs the New American Engagement Initiative in the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council. His work focuses on the history of U.S. foreign policy\, contemporary grand strategy and military force posture\, and the intersection of trade and national security. He has authored four books\, including The Power Problem: How American Military Dominance Makes Us Less Safe\, Less Prosperous\, and Less Free. He has written for The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, Financial Times\, The National Interest\, and National Review. \nHugo Slim is a senior research fellow at the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice at Blackfriars Hall at Oxford\, and also at the Institute of Ethics\, Law and Armed Conflict at Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government. His career has combined academia\, policymaking\, and diplomacy and he has worked for Save the Children\, the United Nations\, the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development and the International Committee of the Red Cross. His recent books include Solferino 21: Warfare\, Civilians and Humanitarians in the Twenty First Century. \nMichael Scott (moderator) is senior dean\, fellow of Blackfriars Hall\, Oxford\, college adviser for postgraduate students\, and a member of the Las Casas Institute. He also serves as senior adviser to the president of Georgetown University. Scott previously was the pro-vice-chancellor at De Montfort University and founding vice-chancellor of Wrexham Glyndwr University. \nSanford J. Ungar (moderator)\, president emeritus of Goucher College\, is director of the Free Speech Project at Georgetown University\, which documents challenges to free expression in American education\, government\, and civil society. Director of the Voice of America under President Bill Clinton\, he was also dean of the American University School of Communication and is a former co-host of “All Things Considered” on NPR. \n  \nUpcoming events: \n6 June: ’Censorship as an International Issue’ \n11 July: ’The Future of Whistle Blowing’ \n15 August: ’Provincialism and World News’
URL:https://www.blackfriars.org.uk/event/russia-ukraine-and-the-effects-of-the-invasion/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220517T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220517T170000
DTSTAMP:20260503T200716
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SUMMARY:Olive Schreiner’s “The Story of an African Farm” and the Question of Progress
DESCRIPTION:The Christian Literary Imagination Series\n \nContinuing from the previous academic year\, over the course of the 2021-22 academic year the Future of the Humanities Project is sponsoring a series of webinars on the Christian literary imagination in collaboration with Blackfriars Hall\, University of Oxford. The ‘Christian Literary Imagination Series’ will explore the role and function of the arts and humanities in the development of the individual and society. \nThe hour-long virtual events will be followed by a Q & As chaired by Professor Michael Scott and Rev Fr Joseph Simmons SJ. These events are free and hosted on Zoom by Georgetown University. \nA talk by Dr Cóilíne Parsons\, Georgetown University. \nOlive Schreiner (1855-1920)\, a South African novelist\, anti-war campaigner\, and women’s rights activist\, came early to the study of the thing we call progress. As a teenager\, she was given a copy of Herbert Spencer’s First Principles (1862)\, and it came to dominate her thoughts in early years\, influencing not only her freethinking regarding religion\, but also her philosophy of history and the progress of humankind. \nThis talk will investigate some astronomical aspects of the basis of Spencer’s First Principles\, steeped as it was in a contested and religiously inflected theory of the origins of planets and stars. It will ask how Schreiner’s lifelong attention to the Southern African sky in her novels functioned as a place of questioning and critique\, from a colonial standpoint\, of one of the foundational theories of progress in the nineteenth century. Spencer’s ideas\, Schreiner found\, had no place at the edges of empire. \nFeatured\nCóilín Parsons is an associate professor of English at Georgetown University\, where he also directs the Global Irish Studies Initiative. He is the author of The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature (2016) and co-editor of Relocations: Reading Culture in South Africa (2015)\, as well as Science\, Technology\, and Irish Modernism (2019). \nRev. Joseph Simmons\, S.J.\, (moderator) is an American Catholic priest currently writing his doctoral thesis at Campion Hall\, Oxford\, under the supervision of Professor Graham Ward. He is exploring the Christian imagination and the fertile place where belief and unbelief touch in the fiction of Virginia Woolf and Marilynne Robinson. Simmons previously studied theology at Boston College and the Harvard Divinity School. His Licentiate in Sacred Theology thesis\, “Via Literaria: Marilynne Robinson’s Theology Through a Literary Imagination\,” explored the convergence of literary and Christian imaginations. \nMichael Scott (moderator) is senior dean\, fellow of Blackfriars Hall\, Oxford\, college adviser for postgraduate students\, and a member of the Las Casas Institute. He also serves as senior adviser to the president of Georgetown University. Scott previously was the pro-vice-chancellor at De Montfort University and founding vice-chancellor of Wrexham Glyndwr University.
URL:https://www.blackfriars.org.uk/event/olive-schreiner-story-of-an-african-farm/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220517T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220517T180000
DTSTAMP:20260503T200716
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220503T121521Z
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Family & Identity In the Book Of Judges
DESCRIPTION:Bruno J. Clifton examines Israel’s family dynamics and identity politics in the dramatic narratives of Judges. This is an inter-disciplinary study that brings socio-anthropological research into dialogue with the history and culture of ancient Israel. \nIntroduction by the author. \nResponse by Rev Dr Oliver Keenan OP \nAll welcome to attend in person;\nto attend remotely\, please use the booking link below.
URL:https://www.blackfriars.org.uk/event/book-launch-family-identity-in-the-book-of-judges/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220518T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220518T170000
DTSTAMP:20260503T200716
CREATED:20220430T153350Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220430T163637Z
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SUMMARY:Truth Reading Class (Widening Horizons)
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Widening Horizons in Philosophical Theology project “Truth in Aquinas and the Theological Turn in Continental Philosophy“: a weekly reading class exploring truth in the Continental tradition\, held on Wednesdays at 3pm.  Co-Convened by Dr Oliver Keenan and Dr Daniel De Haan. Register by email at aquinas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk \n\n27 April: Martin Heidegger\n4 May: Edith Stein\n11 May: Hans Georg Gadamer\n18 May: W. Dilthey\n25 May: Jean-Yves Lacoste\n1 June: Paul Ricoeur\n8 June: Claude Romano\n15 June: Emmanuel Falque\n\n  \nThis event is open to Members of the University of Oxford only.
URL:https://www.blackfriars.org.uk/event/truth-reading-class-widening-horizons-2022-05-18/2022-05-18/
CATEGORIES:The Aquinas Institute
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220518T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220518T180000
DTSTAMP:20260503T200716
CREATED:20220404T133519Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220405T195313Z
UID:9113-1652893200-1652896800@www.blackfriars.org.uk
SUMMARY:Dorothy Day: The Long Loneliness
DESCRIPTION:Discussion group\nWeekly online discussions on sections of Dorothy Day’s The Long Loneliness. \nDorothy Day is one of the most interesting Catholics of the 20th century. An American convert to Catholicism from radical socialism\, she founded the Catholic Worker movement\, which developed and practices a sort of Catholic anarchism. Her readily available autobiography\, The Long Loneliness\, is nicely written\, honest\, clear\, thought-provoking and not too long. We will read the book carefully\, and discuss everything from politics to liturgy\, from conversion to modern holiness. \nThe group will be led by Edward Hadas\, Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall and author of Counsels of Imperfection: Thinking through Catholic Social Teaching\, and by James Bergida\, Junior Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall and an Adjunct Professor of Political Science and Economics at Christendom College. \n  \nSchedule: \nWeek One (April 27): Introduction and All chapters from “Confession” through “Home” \nWeek Two (May 4): “Adolescence” through “Journalism” \nWeek Three (May 11): “The Masses” through “A Time for Searching” \nWeek Four (May 18): “Man Is Meant for Happiness” through “Love Overflows” \nWeek Five (May 25) “Jobs and Journeys” and “Peasants of the Pavements” \nWeek Six (June 1): “Paper\, People\, and Work” and “Labor” \nWeek Seven (June 8): “Community” through “Retreat” \nWeek Eight (June 15): “’War Is the Health of the State’” through “Postcript” \n  \nFree and open for all. Registration is required. \nFor more information: Contact Edward Hadas (edward.hadas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk) \n 
URL:https://www.blackfriars.org.uk/event/dorothy-day-the-long-loneliness-2022-05-18/2022-05-18/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220519T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220519T180000
DTSTAMP:20260503T200716
CREATED:20220520T190236Z
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SUMMARY:Sickness and Healing: Thomas Aquinas on Sin and Salvation
DESCRIPTION:Aquinas Seminar Series on ‘Aquinas on Christ’\n  \nThursday\, 19 May \nDr Rik Van Nieuwenhove (Durham): Sickness and Healing: Thomas Aquinas on Sin and Salvation \n  \nUpcoming seminars: \nThursday\, 26 May\nDr Rachel Cresswell (Oxford): Anselm and Aquinas on the Atonement \nTuesday\, 31 May\nProf Joseph Wawrykow (Notre Dame): The Work of the Cross \nThursday\, 2 June\nProf Michael Gorman (Catholic University of America): The Interaction of Philosophy and Theology in Aquinas’s Christology \nThursday\, 9 June \nDr Austin Stevenson (Cambridge): ‘Whatever is\, is one’: On Varieties of Accidental Union \nThursday\, 16 June\nDr Henk Schoot (Tilburg): Christ the Image of the Father: Aquinas and Others \n  \nThis seminar is held in the Lecture Room at Campion Hall.\nIt is also live streamed via the YouTube channel of the Aquinas Institute. \nClick here for the live stream. \n 
URL:https://www.blackfriars.org.uk/event/sickness-and-healing-thomas-aquinas-on-sin-and-salvation/
CATEGORIES:The Aquinas Institute
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220519T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220519T183000
DTSTAMP:20260503T200716
CREATED:20220518T103029Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220518T103029Z
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SUMMARY:Dignity in street-level bureaucracies: beyond reason\, balance and pragmatism
DESCRIPTION:Dignity in street-level bureaucracies: beyond reason\, balance and pragmatism\nA talk by Professor Tony Evans\, Royal Holloway. Chair: Dr Jonathan Patterson\, St Edmund Hall \nThe first event of the ‘Bureaucracy and Human Dignity‘ seminar series. \nPublic service bureaucracies are messy organisations. Bureaucrats work within policies that are confused and confusing\, and are expected to use their judgement to make services work. This is the picture presented by Street Level Bureaucracy theory\, which argues that good street-level bureaucrats are reasonable\, balanced and pragmatic. This sweeping analysis of public services\, however\, doesn’t take account of the different relationships between policy and service in different areas of public provision. In some areas\, policies constitute services. Dignity entails acting in line with one’s commitments and in a way that is appropriate to circumstances. They may be the rules by which benefits are allocated. In other areas\, policies are a looser framework\, within which decisions have to be made\, such as policing; and in other areas\, particularly professional welfare services\, policies are more about enabling provision than specifying what should be done. In all of these areas\, different forms of judgement are appropriate. One may emphasise procedural correctness\, another the right outcome\, and another meeting particular commitments. In each type of service\, the idea of one global\, right way of thinking and acting is misplaced\, and ignores the dignity of particular roles and requirements in different fields. Furthermore\, in most public services—particularly welfare services—practitioners have to move through these three forms of policy relationship and judgement\, in order to provide a service. My argument is that\, to do this\, practitioners have to use reason\, and balance\, and pragmatism\, but not as some abstract standard of decision-making; rather\, as elements in the grammar of everyday service provision. \nThe online event is free and open for all. Registration is required.
URL:https://www.blackfriars.org.uk/event/bureaucracy-and-human-dignity/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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SUMMARY:T. S. Eliot: Christian Spirituality in the West End
DESCRIPTION:The Christian Literary Imagination Series\n \nContinuing from the previous academic year\, over the course of the 2021-22 academic year the Future of the Humanities Project is sponsoring a series of webinars on the Christian literary imagination in collaboration with Blackfriars Hall\, University of Oxford. The ‘Christian Literary Imagination Series’ will explore the role and function of the arts and humanities in the development of the individual and society. \nThe hour-long virtual events will be followed by a Q & As chaired by Professor Michael Scott and Rev Fr Joseph Simmons SJ. These events are free and hosted on Zoom by Georgetown University. \nA talk by Professor Michael J Collins\, Georgetown University\, followed by a panel discussion on the Christian Literary Imagination.\n \nAfter World War II\, T. S. Eliot for the most part abandoned poetry to become a playwright. He had by then come to believe the plays he had written before the war\, Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and The Family Reunion (1939)\, were dead ends because neither of them provided a model upon which to build a tradition of poetic drama. Eliot’s goal after the war then was to write poetic drama that employed the conventions of popular West End theatre and simultaneously conveyed a Christian vision of the world. The competing demands this goal put upon him are the focus of this talk. They suggest the challenges\, or possibly the conventional critical prejudices\, a writer in our time faces in articulating a religious vision of the world. \nTo commemorate the final webinar of the series\, the Q&A session will be followed by a 15-minute panel discussion chaired by Michael Scott with Rev. Joseph Simmons S.J.\, Kathryn Temple\, and Michael Collins on the Christian Literary Imagination. \nFeatured\nMichael Collins is a teaching professor of English and dean emeritus at Georgetown University. He has published essays on Anglo-Welsh poetry in Poetry Wales\, World Literature Today\, the Dictionary of Literary Biography\, and the Anglo-Welsh Review. He is an honorary fellow of Wrexham Glyndwr University\, University of Wales\, and a recipient of Georgetown University’s Presidential Medal and its Bunn Award for Outstanding Teaching. \nRev. Joseph Simmons\, S.J.\, (moderator) is an American Catholic priest currently writing his doctoral thesis at Campion Hall\, Oxford\, under the supervision of Professor Graham Ward. He is exploring the Christian imagination and the fertile place where belief and unbelief touch in the fiction of Virginia Woolf and Marilynne Robinson. Simmons previously studied theology at Boston College and the Harvard Divinity School. His Licentiate in Sacred Theology thesis\, “Via Literaria: Marilynne Robinson’s Theology Through a Literary Imagination\,” explored the convergence of literary and Christian imaginations. \nMichael Scott (moderator) is senior dean\, fellow of Blackfriars Hall\, Oxford\, college adviser for postgraduate students\, and a member of the Las Casas Institute. He also serves as senior adviser to the president of Georgetown University. Scott previously was the pro-vice-chancellor at De Montfort University and founding vice-chancellor of Wrexham Glyndwr University. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.blackfriars.org.uk/event/t-s-eliot-plays/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220525T170000
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SUMMARY:Truth Reading Class (Widening Horizons)
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Widening Horizons in Philosophical Theology project “Truth in Aquinas and the Theological Turn in Continental Philosophy“: a weekly reading class exploring truth in the Continental tradition\, held on Wednesdays at 3pm.  Co-Convened by Dr Oliver Keenan and Dr Daniel De Haan. Register by email at aquinas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk \n\n27 April: Martin Heidegger\n4 May: Edith Stein\n11 May: Hans Georg Gadamer\n18 May: W. Dilthey\n25 May: Jean-Yves Lacoste\n1 June: Paul Ricoeur\n8 June: Claude Romano\n15 June: Emmanuel Falque\n\n  \nThis event is open to Members of the University of Oxford only.
URL:https://www.blackfriars.org.uk/event/truth-reading-class-widening-horizons-2022-05-25/2022-05-25/
CATEGORIES:The Aquinas Institute
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220525T180000
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SUMMARY:Dorothy Day: The Long Loneliness
DESCRIPTION:Discussion group\nWeekly online discussions on sections of Dorothy Day’s The Long Loneliness. \nDorothy Day is one of the most interesting Catholics of the 20th century. An American convert to Catholicism from radical socialism\, she founded the Catholic Worker movement\, which developed and practices a sort of Catholic anarchism. Her readily available autobiography\, The Long Loneliness\, is nicely written\, honest\, clear\, thought-provoking and not too long. We will read the book carefully\, and discuss everything from politics to liturgy\, from conversion to modern holiness. \nThe group will be led by Edward Hadas\, Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall and author of Counsels of Imperfection: Thinking through Catholic Social Teaching\, and by James Bergida\, Junior Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall and an Adjunct Professor of Political Science and Economics at Christendom College. \n  \nSchedule: \nWeek One (April 27): Introduction and All chapters from “Confession” through “Home” \nWeek Two (May 4): “Adolescence” through “Journalism” \nWeek Three (May 11): “The Masses” through “A Time for Searching” \nWeek Four (May 18): “Man Is Meant for Happiness” through “Love Overflows” \nWeek Five (May 25) “Jobs and Journeys” and “Peasants of the Pavements” \nWeek Six (June 1): “Paper\, People\, and Work” and “Labor” \nWeek Seven (June 8): “Community” through “Retreat” \nWeek Eight (June 15): “’War Is the Health of the State’” through “Postcript” \n  \nFree and open for all. Registration is required. \nFor more information: Contact Edward Hadas (edward.hadas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk) \n 
URL:https://www.blackfriars.org.uk/event/dorothy-day-the-long-loneliness-2022-05-25/2022-05-25/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220525T183000
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SUMMARY:Newman Lecture 2022: Sir James MacMillan
DESCRIPTION:Music & Some Wider Implications: a Catholic composer’s perspective. \nIs there a moral dimension to the act of composition?\nAnd does the work of a composer ever impact on the desire to sustain civic values? \nSir James MacMillan is the pre-eminent Scottish composer of his generation\, whose compositions include many religious works such asSeven Last Words from the Cross (1993)\, Miserere (2009) and Stabat Mater (2015). \nThe John Henry Newman Annual Lecture is offered to the University of Oxford by its Catholic Halls: Blackfriars\, Campion Hall\, and St Benet’s. \n  \n  \n\nVenue: Flora Anderson Hall\, Somerville College\, Wednesday\, 25 May\, 2022\, 5pm.\nBooking: Owing to limited capacity\, entry will be by ticket only. All welcome. Please book your free place on EventBrite.
URL:https://www.blackfriars.org.uk/event/newman-lecture-sir-james-macmillan/
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220526T180000
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SUMMARY:Anselm and Aquinas on the Atonement
DESCRIPTION:Aquinas Seminar Series on ‘Aquinas on Christ’\n  \nThursday\, 26 May\nDr Rachel Cresswell (Oxford): Anselm and Aquinas on the Atonement \n  \nUpcoming seminars: \nTuesday\, 31 May\nProf Joseph Wawrykow (Notre Dame): The Work of the Cross \nThursday\, 2 June\nProf Michael Gorman (Catholic University of America): The Interaction of Philosophy and Theology in Aquinas’s Christology \nThursday\, 9 June \nDr Austin Stevenson (Cambridge): ‘Whatever is\, is one’: On Varieties of Accidental Union \nThursday\, 16 June\nDr Henk Schoot (Tilburg): Christ the Image of the Father: Aquinas and Others \n  \nThe seminars are held in the Aula of Blackfriars Hall\, except for 19 May and 9 June\, which are held in the Lecture Room of Campion Hall. \nRegistration is only required to attend via Zoom. Each event requires a separate registration.
URL:https://www.blackfriars.org.uk/event/anselm-and-aquinas-on-the-atonement/
CATEGORIES:The Aquinas Institute
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220528T123000
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SUMMARY:Memorial Mass for Fr David Sanders OP
DESCRIPTION:Fr David Sanders OP died as the result of Covid-19 early in the pandemic and is remembered with affection by many. \nHis Memorial Mass will take place on Saturday\, 28th May 2022 at 10.30am\, and will be followed by light refreshments in the Priory. We are very pleased that members of Fr David’s family will be present with us that day\, and we hope others of you who knew him will be able to join us. \nFor those unable to make it in person\, the Mass will be live-streamed using our usual Youtube channel. This livestream will replace our usual morning Mass live stream that day.
URL:https://www.blackfriars.org.uk/event/memorial-mass-for-fr-david-sanders-op/
LOCATION:Blackfriars\, St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Priory
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SUMMARY:The Work of the Cross
DESCRIPTION:Aquinas Seminar Series on ‘Aquinas on Christ’\n  \nTuesday\, 31 May\nProf Joseph Wawrykow (Notre Dame): The Work of the Cross \n  \nUpcoming seminars: \nThursday\, 2 June\nProf Michael Gorman (Catholic University of America): The Interaction of Philosophy and Theology in Aquinas’s Christology \nThursday\, 9 June\nDr Austin Stevenson (Cambridge): ‘Whatever is\, is one’: On Varieties of Accidental Union \nThursday\, 16 June\nDr Henk Schoot (Tilburg): Christ the Image of the Father: Aquinas and Others \n  \nThe seminars are held in the Aula of Blackfriars Hall\, except for 19 May and 9 June\, which are held in the Lecture Room of Campion Hall. \nRegistration is only required to attend via Zoom. Each event requires a separate registration.
URL:https://www.blackfriars.org.uk/event/the-work-of-the-cross/
CATEGORIES:The Aquinas Institute
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