

Study Groups
See details of our various study groups, which run throughout the year.
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A Soup and Study Group which meets for a meal, fellowship, prayer and study, beginning Tuesday 21st January 2025
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For the first five centuries AD, Egypt was a cultural & theological hotspot, home to notable figures such as St Athanasius and St Cyril of Alexandria as well as the less well-known Clement of Alexandria and Origen. Our survey of these key figures from the early Eastern Church will touch upon the Trinity and Christology as well as helping you figure out whether you might be an Arian, Nestorian, Docetist or Adoptionist. We’ll meet in the Liddon Room on Mondays at 6.30pm, 1st – 8th Week (from Monday 20th January 2025) and spend two weeks on each of the four figures. The first session each time will primarily provide a brief overview of the life, work & contribution of the person, whilst the second session will involve discussion using extracts from some of their writings. No knowledge of Church history or theology is assumed or needed. For further information contact Russell Jefford at info@ordinarytheology.com
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As part of Pusey House’s 140th anniversary celebrations, we will be reading Robert Lawrence Ottley’s The Rule of Life and Love: An Exposition of the Ten Commandments. Ottley was the House’s second Principal (1893-97) and a prominent moral theologian, serving as Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University (1903-33). In this rich, yet accessible book, he discusses the Decalogue, or Ten Commandments, detailing the ways in which each of the Commandments connects with right living and worship. By reading and discussing Ottley’s work, we will aim to deepen our appreciation for God’s laws and to live more fully in the light of Christ. We will meet on Fridays at 9.30am in the Liddon Room, 1st - 8th Weeks (starting on 24 January). If you are interested in joining the group, please contact Phillip Quinn (phillip.quinn@theology.ox.ac.uk) or Daniel Martin-Thomas (pusey.sacristan@stx.ox.ac.uk).
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In tandem with the Catholic Christian Ethics Reading Group, we will be screening Krzysztof Kieślowski's acclaimed ‘Dekalog’, a series of ten one-hour made-for-television films about the lives and moral dilemmas of the residents of a housing complex in 1980’s Warsaw. Widely regarded as one of the greatest filmic achievements of the last quarter of the 20th Century – Stanley Kubrick considered the series the only masterpiece he could think of - the set of films is inspired by the Ten Commandments, but there is not, as the film critic Roger Ebert wrote, ‘a one-to-one correlation; some films touch on more than one commandment, and others involve the whole ethical system suggested by the commandments. These are not simplistic illustrations of the rules, but stories that involve real people in the complexities of real problems.’ As with Ottley’s book, these films will help us consider, as we approach the season of Lent, how we can exist within the framework of the Commandments in the world today. We will present two films at a time on Fridays at 7.30pm, immediately after G&T and Tea, 4th – 8th Weeks (starting on 14th February).