Centre for Theology, Law, and Culture
Upcoming Events
Theological Conference
The second largest theological conference in Britain, to take place July 4th-6th 2022 at Pusey House, Oxford, on the theme of the Holy Spirit.
Tickets available for the conference, and for the livestream here
Colloquia
Over the 2022-23 academic year, there will be three colloquia on topics of interest to the Centre
Recollection Series Lectures
Intensive introductions to the key periods, characters, and ideas of Christian history. Usually occurring on Wednesdays of even numbered weeks of term, beginning at 4:00 p.m. in the Chapel.
The second largest theological conference in Britain, to take place July 4th-6th 2022 at Pusey House, Oxford, on the theme of the Holy Spirit.
Tickets available for the conference, and for the livestream here
Colloquia
Over the 2022-23 academic year, there will be three colloquia on topics of interest to the Centre
- Michaelmas : Christian Theology and the British Constitution
- Hilary: Corporate Persons
- Trinity: The Idea of a College
Recollection Series Lectures
Intensive introductions to the key periods, characters, and ideas of Christian history. Usually occurring on Wednesdays of even numbered weeks of term, beginning at 4:00 p.m. in the Chapel.
|
On Cardinal NewmanWednesday 15th June - 4pm
Ludwig Cardinal Müller served as the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) from his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI in 2012 until 2017. He was created and proclaimed cardinal by Pope Francis in 2014. Between 1986 and 2002, His Eminence was Professor of Dogmatic Theology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. He served for many years as the Bishop of Regensburg.
Ludwig Cardinal Müller has engaged in Christian ministry both as a priest and as an academic, specialising in systematic and dogmatic theology. His Eminence has a longstanding admiration for the life and work of Cardinal Newman, and the birth of his mature thinking within the Oxford Movement. Over the past few years, he has visited Oxford a number of times, both to walk in the steps of Cardinal Newman and to engage in academic exchanges on matters of faith and culture. On this visit he will deliver a lecture on Cardinal Newman as a man, a thinker, and a theologian. |
About
The Centre for Theology, Law, and Culture is an academic institute dedicated to enriching contemporary intellectual and cultural life by a rigorous engagement with Theology and Philosophy.
Based at Pusey House, the Centre draws upon Oxford’s longstanding and exceptional scholarship in Law and the Humanities, and in particular upon the Catholic tradition as received in the Church of England.
The Centre hosts colloquia, lectures, and seminars, and supports scholars and scholarship in the pursuit of truth within the academy, and for the renewal of the Church within a pluralistic society.
Based at Pusey House, the Centre draws upon Oxford’s longstanding and exceptional scholarship in Law and the Humanities, and in particular upon the Catholic tradition as received in the Church of England.
The Centre hosts colloquia, lectures, and seminars, and supports scholars and scholarship in the pursuit of truth within the academy, and for the renewal of the Church within a pluralistic society.
Scholars
Our researchers and scholars-in-residence publish and lecture, drawing from Christian and Classical wisdom toward the renewal of our respective disciplines.
Current Researchers
Dr Jonathan Price - Barry Fellow (Pusey House) & Fellow of St Cross College (Faculty of Law, University of Oxford)
Research: Theological origins of modernity; philosophical anthropology; virtue ethics
Dr Patrick Nash - Visiting Fellow at the Faculty of Theology and Religion (University of Oxford) and Associate Member of Oriel College
Research: English Law of Religion, Anglo-German Jurisprudence, Legal History, Canon Law, Law in Context
Mr John Ritzema - PhD Candidate in Biblical Studies (King's College, London)
Research: Visionary experience and cult in the Hebrew Bible; the Bible and Humanities; Christian theology and the British Constitution
Mr Clinton Collister - PhD Candidate in Christian Theology (University of Cambridge)
Research: Theology and Literature; Moral Theology; Systematic Theology
Lectures & Colloquia
You can see our lectures, given by scholars including John Finnis and Wim Decock, on our YouTube channel. Follow us to see upcoming series on early modern theology and law, the soul, and moral and political theology, as well as the co-organised Theological Conference on the theme of the work of the Holy Spirit.
Support
Please consider sponsoring one of our scholars or an upcoming colloquium or lecture series or book discussion group. It is only through the generous support of donors like you that the next generation of Oxford students, as well as interested scholars and policy-makers, might receive ancient wisdom in a setting of Christian life and worship. Donations can be made here.
Contact Us
For enquiries about the Centre, please contact Dr Jonathan Price at: jonathan.price@law.ox.ac.uk
Pusey House, St Giles', Oxford, OX1 3LZ
Pusey House, St Giles', Oxford, OX1 3LZ
Past Events
|
Dante's Monarchia and the Idea of EmpireWednesday 23rd February 2022
At the seventh centenary of Dante Alighieri's death, not only his poetical genius but also his political thought remain strikingly relevant to questions of the day. In the domain of global governance, when we ponder whether the universal can be anything but imperial, we are posing the obverse of the question Dante set out to address in his treatise De Monarchia – namely, whether the imperial can be anything but universal. While at the time of its writing the treatise primarily weighed in on the very practical struggle between Pope and Emperor for supremacy in Italy, Dante's novel approach to legitimacy enjoyed a varied reception far beyond its time and place. It now constitutes an important root of the genealogy of the twin ideas of universal peace and empire in Western thought.
Miss Isabelle Heinemann is reading for an MPhil in Ancient History at St Hilda's College You can watch a recording of this lecture here |
|
Theologians and Contract LawMonday 11th October 2021
A colloquium organised by the Centre for Theology, Law, and Culture hosted between All Souls College and Pusey House.
Prof Boudewijn Sirks delivered a lecture on Roman Sources of Contract followed by Dr Jonathan Price's paper Natural Liberty: The Arminian Theology in Modern Contract Doctrine and concluded with Prof Wim Decock's lecture on Christian Contract Law and the Morality of the Market: A Historical Perspective You can watch a recording of Prof Decock's capstone lecture here: |
|
|
Prof Wim Decock is Professor of Legal history at the Universities of Louvain and Liege in Belgium.
Modern lawyers have been accustomed to thinking of law, morality, and religion separately. It has become odd and even undesirable to think of religious authorities as experts in legal matters. This lecture will argue that the first systematic and substantive doctrines of contract were developed not by lawyers, but by canonists and moral theologians. |
