The Christian Literary Imagination Series Over the course of the 2020-2021 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…
Reading Group: Pope Benedict XVI’s Spe Salvi Over six weeks the reading group will discuss this too often neglected encyclical. Topics include the nature of specifically Christian hope, the meaning of death, and the secularisation and loss of hope in the modern world. The discussion will be led by Edward Hadas, Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford. His book Counsels…
Counsels of Imperfection: Thinking Through Catholic Social Teaching by Edward Hadas For more than a century, the teaching authority of the Catholic Church has attempted to walk along with the modern world, criticizing what is bad and praising what is good. Counsels of Imperfection described the current state of that fairly bumpy journey. The book starts with an introduction to…
