Our Institute has been promoting knowledge of Thomas Aquinas’ teaching and his legacy, and research into his ideas and their contemporary value, since 2004. Located in the University of Oxford, we help introduce Aquinas to new scholars in various disciplines, and contribute to the exchange of ideas in this world-class University by bringing international scholars to speak at our events or to carry out research. Our seminar series and colloquia foster a research community, and, often in colla ...
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Dr Franco Manni - Knowledge, Freedom and the Meaning of Life according to Herbert McCabe
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Part of a day conference marking the twentieth anniversary of the death of Herbert McCabe, OP.
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Dr Tasia Scrutton - Is evil like a hole in a sock?
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From a day conference on the philosophy of Herbert McCabe, OP to mark the twentieth anniversary of his death.
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Matthew Dunch SJ - McCabe’s Developmental Realism: A Defense Against Critics
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Prof Mark Wynn - Herbert McCabe on the Eucharist: Entering a New World
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From a day conference on the philosophy of Herbert McCabe, OP to mark the twentieth anniversary of his death.
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Prof Stephen Mulhall - Transubstantiation and the Eucharist: Herbert McCabe vs G. Egner
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Prof Andrea Aldo Robiglio - Learning Failures and Scholarly Vices
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Prof Andrea Aldo Robiglio -On Learning Failures and Scholarly Vices part of the 2021 Aquinas Seminar Series on the theme De Magistro: Aquinas and the Education of the Whole Person, exploring what Aquinas offers towards a philosophy and praxis of education, bringing him into conversation with other thinkers and with movements towards educating the …
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Prof Adam Eitel - The Idea of 'the Preacher' in Thomas Aquinas's Super Isaiam and In Jeremiam
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Prof Adam Eitel on 'The Idea of 'the Preacher' in Thomas Aquinas's Super Isaiam and In Jeremiam', part of the 2021 Aquinas Seminar Series on the theme De Magistro: Aquinas and the Education of the Whole Person, exploring what Aquinas offers towards a philosophy and praxis of education, bringing him into conversation with other thinkers and with mo…
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Rev Prof Michael Sherwin, OP - Integrated Humanities Programmes & the Renewal of Catholic Education
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Rev Prof Michael Sherwin, OP on "Integrated Humanities Programmes & the Renewal of Catholic Education" part of the 2021 Aquinas Seminar Series on the theme De Magistro: Aquinas and the Education of the Whole Person, exploring what Aquinas offers towards a philosophy and praxis of education, bringing him into conversation with other thinkers and w…
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Prof Fáinche Ryan - The Role of Intelligence in Good Human Living
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Prof Fáinche Ryan "The Role of Intelligence in Good Human Living: Aquinas and the teachability of Prudentia" part of the 2021 Aquinas Seminar Series on the theme De Magistro: Aquinas and the Education of the Whole Person, exploring what Aquinas offers towards a philosophy and praxis of education, bringing him into conversation with other thinkers …
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Rev Dr Nicholas Austin, SJ - The Education of the Eye: Aquinas and the Virtue of Right Attention
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Rev Dr Nicholas Austin, SJ "The Education of the Eye: Aquinas and the Virtue of Right Attention" part of the 2021 Aquinas Seminar Series on the theme De Magistro: Aquinas and the Education of the Whole Person, exploring what Aquinas offers towards a philosophy and praxis of education, bringing him into conversation with other thinkers and with mov…
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A special lecture from November 2018 from Prof Roger Pouivet. Art and the Desire for God - A Thomistic Perspective in Aesthetics Many philosophers claim that philosophy must question the nature of “aesthetic experience” Consequently, “Aesthetics” is mainly devoted to the description of this assumed aesthetic experience. My intention now is to try t…
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Rev Prof Vivian Boland, OP - Aquinas on Sana Doctrina and Sacra Doctrina
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Rev Prof Vivian Boland, OP, "Can Aquinas’s sana doctrina on Learning and Teaching Be Extracted from Its Place in sacra doctrina?" part of the 2021 Aquinas Seminar Series on the theme De Magistro: Aquinas and the Education of the Whole Person, exploring what Aquinas offers towards a philosophy and praxis of education, bringing him into conversation…
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Rev Dr David Goodill, OP - Wittgenstein, Training, and Habits
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Rev Dr David Goodill, OP "Wittgenstein, Training, and Habits" part of the 2021 Aquinas Seminar Series on the theme De Magistro: Aquinas and the Education of the Whole Person, exploring what Aquinas offers towards a philosophy and praxis of education, bringing him into conversation with other thinkers and with movements towards educating the whole …
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Dr Zena Hitz - The Spontaneity of the Mind & the Desire to Learn
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Dr Zena Hitz (St John’s College, Annapolis) “The Spontaneity of the Mind and the Desire to Learn” part of the 2021 Aquinas Seminar Series on the theme De Magistro: Aquinas and the Education of the Whole Person, exploring what Aquinas offers towards a philosophy and praxis of education, bringing him into conversation with other thinkers and with mo…
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Michael Wee - Connatural Moral Knowledge: Anscombe and Maritain on Natural Law Epistemology
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Part of a seminar series organised in collaboration with the Anscombe Centre for Bioethics.
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Rev Dr Richard Conrad, OP - Natural Law: Revealed and Discovered? Changeless and Developing?
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The first of a series of research seminars run in collaboration with the Anscombe Centre for Bioethics on natural law.
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Christian Narratives & the Well-Lived Life: Thomistic Reflections The 2021 Aquinas Lecture was given by Professor Mark Wynn, Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion, Oxford on 'Christian narratives and the well-lived life: Thomistic reflections'
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Biblical Thomism - The Case-Study of Hebrews 2:9
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A paper given at a special colloquium on Biblical Thomism.
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Aquinas’s Scriptum On 1 Cor 7 - The Scripture As Norming And Inspiring
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A paper given as part of a special colloquium on Biblical Thomism.
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The Need to Bring Together Biblical Scholarship and Dogmatic Theology
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Part of a special colloquium on reading the Scriptures with St Thomas Aquinas.
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Christ’s Will to Die & our Salvation in Aquinas’s Super Psalmum 21
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Part of a special colloquium on reading the Scriptures with St Thomas Aquinas.
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Hugo Grotius and the Shrinking of the Natural Law Doctrine - Dr Jonathan Price
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“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 as well as the contrast …
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When Should or Shouldn’t Human Law Change? Ethics and Assessing Legal Code - Prof. Ryan Meade
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“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 as well as the contrast …
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Of Course Human Law Develops. Can Natural and Divine Law Develop? - Prof J. Budziszewski
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“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 as well as the contrast …
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The Revision Of Civil Law: The Torah Exemplifies Aquinas’ Principles - Rev Dr Richard Conrad, OP
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“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 as well as the contrast …
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Appreciating the Fine & Discerning the Good - Prof. Peter Hampson
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A lecture given as part of the 2019 Aquinas Seminar Series
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Divine & Human Gift: Magnanimity in St Thomas Aquinas & St Ignatius Loyola - Rev Dr Nick Austin, SJ
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The Metaphysics of Pregnancy - Prof. John Finley
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The Theory of Passions as Constituent of a Theory of Providence - Prof. Patricio Dominguez
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Co-operation with Sins Against Prudence and Chastity - Prof. Ed Feser
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A paper delivered to the 2019 Aquinas Seminar In modern times there is a tendency to pit morality against intelligence, either in a voluntarist way that makes morality primarily a matter of the will or in a sentimentalist way that makes it primarily a matter of feeling. From the Thomist point of view, this is a mistake. Morality is an essentially c…
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On Possessing Oneself: The Moral Psychology of Temperance - Prof. Jennifer Frey
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Seminar as part of the 2019 Aquinas Seminar Series
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Audio of the 2020 Aquinas lecture delivered by Russell Hittinger. Tradition or Pottage? Reflections on Catholic Social Doctrine Prof Russell Hittinger is the Senior Fellow in the Lumen Christi Institute at the University of Chicago, and a Visiting Scholar there in the Committee on Social Thought. This term he is a Visiting Professor in the Dominica…
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This year we will be unable to meet in person for the Aquinas Week, but we will put on a number of lectures over the weekend of the 26-29 June. Each day there will be live Q&As, usually in the evening, with each of the lectors - Fr Richard Conrad, OP, Fr Robert Gay, OP, Fr Simon Gaine, OP. In this third and final lecture, Fr Simon Gaine, OP introdu…
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This year we will be unable to meet in person for the Aquinas Week, but we will put on a number of lectures over the weekend of the 26-29 June. Each day there will be live Q&As, usually in the evening, with each of the lectors - Fr Richard Conrad, OP, Fr Robert Gay, OP, Fr Simon Gaine, OP. In this second lecture, Fr Robert Gay, OP introduces the Se…
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The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything: 43
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This year we will be unable to meet in person for the Aquinas Week, but we will put on a number of lectures over the weekend of the 26-29 June. Each day there will be live Q&As, usually in the evening, with each of the lectors - Fr Richard Conrad, OP, Fr Robert Gay, OP, Fr Simon Gaine, OP. In this first lecture, Fr Richard Conrad, OP introduces the…
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Lockdown Podcast 3 - The Seduction of Saruman and the Philosophy of Nature
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An introduction to the philosophy of nature from Dr William Simpson. William Simpson is a Junior Research Fellow of Wolfson College. His research interests span philosophy, physics and theology. His current work is funded by the John Templeton Foundation as part of the international project, God and the book of nature. He is an associate member of …
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Lockdown Podcasts 2: St Paul on the Resurrection of Christ
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Fr Richard Ounsworth, OP, Lector in Scripture at Blackfriars, Oxford on St Paul on the Resurrection of Christ
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Lockdown Podcasts 1: How Does the Resurrection Save Us?
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In the first of a short series of podcasts from the Aquinas Institute, Fr Richard Conrad, OP, Director of the Aquinas Institute, speaks on How the Resurrection saves us.
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A special lecture from Prof. Timothy Pawl from the University of St. Thomas, Saint Paul, MN.
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