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CTP Module 4 Women Who Changed the Church Workshop 3 of 3

MBIT in Cambridge or Online via Zoom 12 - 14 Grange Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

From the women of the scripture to Catholic Women Speak, women have consistently changed church practice, communities, and ideas.  This eight lecture series, including this year’s Mary Ward lecture, will explore inspirational women whose lives and actions have been transformational within the Church.  By focusing on women in the historical and contemporary church, the course is designed to open discussion spaces to celebrate, uncover, and critique the contributions of women to and through Church history. Speakers include:  Prof Shannen Dee Williams of Villanova University (Mary Ward Lecture 2022), Prof Jeana Del Rosso of Notre Dame of Maryland University, Dr Sue [...]

Women Who Changed the Church Lecture: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle

Online with Zoom

Mary Ward Lecture 2022 Dr Shannen Dee Williams discusses the history of Black Catholic nuns in the United States, hailing them as the “forgotten prophets” of Catholicism and democracy. Drawing on oral histories and previously sealed church records, Williams demonstrates how master narratives of women’s religious life and Catholic commitments to racial and gender justice fundamentally change when the lives and experiences of African American nuns are taken seriously. For Black Catholic women and girls, embracing the celibate religious state constituted a radical act of resistance to white supremacy and the sexual terrorism built into chattel slavery and segregation. Williams [...]

Free

Living, Ageing, Dying: Exploring the Life Course in Dialogue with Gregory of Nyssa’s Life of Macrina

Online with Zoom

This study day will take as its guide the fourth century Cappadocian abbess, Saint Macrina, as she is mediated to us through the writing of Gregory of Nyssa. We will consider especially the interrelation of her living and dying, asking how her living prepares for a distinctive kind of dying, and examine how the particular practices of her life frames the meaning of her death.  Her example will help us critically engage with a number of troubling presumptions about ageing and dying in our own era. Course Leader: Dr Jessica Scott Date: Wednesday March 16th 2022, 10.30am– 4.00pm (includes lunch [...]

£50

Catholic Belief and Doctrine with Thomas Aquinas

MBIT in Cambridge or Online via Zoom 12 - 14 Grange Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Learning Catholic Belief and Doctrine with Thomas Aquinas  This 8 week course provides an overview of basic Catholic belief and doctrine, based on the treatment of the “Angelic Doctor,” St. Thomas Aquinas.  You will be introduced to the overall structure of Aquinas’ thought in general, and learn how to utilize the Summa theologiae, with opportunities for discussion and questions. Week Topic 1 Happiness or Beatitude, What is It and How to Get There 2 The Mystery of Holy Trinity: Processions, Relations, and Persons 3 Human Passions / Emotions 4 Virtues and Vices 5 Prayer and the Spiritual Life 6 The [...]

£200

Catholic Belief and Doctrine with Thomas Aquinas

MBIT in Cambridge or Online via Zoom 12 - 14 Grange Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Learning Catholic Belief and Doctrine with Thomas Aquinas  This 8 week course provides an overview of basic Catholic belief and doctrine, based on the treatment of the “Angelic Doctor,” St. Thomas Aquinas.  You will be introduced to the overall structure of Aquinas’ thought in general, and learn how to utilize the Summa theologiae, with opportunities for discussion and questions. Week Topic 1 Happiness or Beatitude, What is It and How to Get There 2 The Mystery of Holy Trinity: Processions, Relations, and Persons 3 Human Passions / Emotions 4 Virtues and Vices 5 Prayer and the Spiritual Life 6 The [...]

£200

Catholic Belief and Doctrine with Thomas Aquinas

MBIT in Cambridge or Online via Zoom 12 - 14 Grange Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Learning Catholic Belief and Doctrine with Thomas Aquinas  This 8 week course provides an overview of basic Catholic belief and doctrine, based on the treatment of the “Angelic Doctor,” St. Thomas Aquinas.  You will be introduced to the overall structure of Aquinas’ thought in general, and learn how to utilize the Summa theologiae, with opportunities for discussion and questions. Week Topic 1 Happiness or Beatitude, What is It and How to Get There 2 The Mystery of Holy Trinity: Processions, Relations, and Persons 3 Human Passions / Emotions 4 Virtues and Vices 5 Prayer and the Spiritual Life 6 The [...]

£200

Catholic Belief and Doctrine with Thomas Aquinas

MBIT in Cambridge or Online via Zoom 12 - 14 Grange Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Learning Catholic Belief and Doctrine with Thomas Aquinas  This 8 week course provides an overview of basic Catholic belief and doctrine, based on the treatment of the “Angelic Doctor,” St. Thomas Aquinas.  You will be introduced to the overall structure of Aquinas’ thought in general, and learn how to utilize the Summa theologiae, with opportunities for discussion and questions. Week Topic 1 Happiness or Beatitude, What is It and How to Get There 2 The Mystery of Holy Trinity: Processions, Relations, and Persons 3 Human Passions / Emotions 4 Virtues and Vices 5 Prayer and the Spiritual Life 6 The [...]

£200

Catholic Belief and Doctrine with Thomas Aquinas

MBIT in Cambridge or Online via Zoom 12 - 14 Grange Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Learning Catholic Belief and Doctrine with Thomas Aquinas  This 8 week course provides an overview of basic Catholic belief and doctrine, based on the treatment of the “Angelic Doctor,” St. Thomas Aquinas.  You will be introduced to the overall structure of Aquinas’ thought in general, and learn how to utilize the Summa theologiae, with opportunities for discussion and questions. Week Topic 1 Happiness or Beatitude, What is It and How to Get There 2 The Mystery of Holy Trinity: Processions, Relations, and Persons 3 Human Passions / Emotions 4 Virtues and Vices 5 Prayer and the Spiritual Life 6 The [...]

£200

Catholic Belief and Doctrine with Thomas Aquinas

MBIT in Cambridge or Online via Zoom 12 - 14 Grange Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Learning Catholic Belief and Doctrine with Thomas Aquinas  This 8 week course provides an overview of basic Catholic belief and doctrine, based on the treatment of the “Angelic Doctor,” St. Thomas Aquinas.  You will be introduced to the overall structure of Aquinas’ thought in general, and learn how to utilize the Summa theologiae, with opportunities for discussion and questions. Week Topic 1 Happiness or Beatitude, What is It and How to Get There 2 The Mystery of Holy Trinity: Processions, Relations, and Persons 3 Human Passions / Emotions 4 Virtues and Vices 5 Prayer and the Spiritual Life 6 The [...]

£200

Catholic Belief and Doctrine with Thomas Aquinas

MBIT in Cambridge or Online via Zoom 12 - 14 Grange Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Learning Catholic Belief and Doctrine with Thomas Aquinas  This 8 week course provides an overview of basic Catholic belief and doctrine, based on the treatment of the “Angelic Doctor,” St. Thomas Aquinas.  You will be introduced to the overall structure of Aquinas’ thought in general, and learn how to utilize the Summa theologiae, with opportunities for discussion and questions. Week Topic 1 Happiness or Beatitude, What is It and How to Get There 2 The Mystery of Holy Trinity: Processions, Relations, and Persons 3 Human Passions / Emotions 4 Virtues and Vices 5 Prayer and the Spiritual Life 6 The [...]

£200

Catholic Belief and Doctrine with Thomas Aquinas

MBIT in Cambridge or Online via Zoom 12 - 14 Grange Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Learning Catholic Belief and Doctrine with Thomas Aquinas  This 8 week course provides an overview of basic Catholic belief and doctrine, based on the treatment of the “Angelic Doctor,” St. Thomas Aquinas.  You will be introduced to the overall structure of Aquinas’ thought in general, and learn how to utilize the Summa theologiae, with opportunities for discussion and questions. Week Topic 1 Happiness or Beatitude, What is It and How to Get There 2 The Mystery of Holy Trinity: Processions, Relations, and Persons 3 Human Passions / Emotions 4 Virtues and Vices 5 Prayer and the Spiritual Life 6 The [...]

£200

Moral Development Reasoning and Decision Making

Online with Zoom

This course provides introduction developmental moral psychology in conversation with selected themes from within normative philosophical ethics (for example, ‘care’, ‘justice’ and ‘duty’. It engages with science and art.  It inquires into such questions as ‘what is moral maturity?’; how does the moral self develop?’; ‘what constitutes and conditions moral growth’?; ‘how to achieve moral excellence?’; ‘is good character enough for leading morally good life?’, ‘how do we assess difficult moral situations and prioritise goods?’; ‘how do we deal with moral incontinence or failure?’; ‘what should the content of moral education be in order foster moral growth?’. Cost:  £230 Dates: [...]

£230