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15 Mar 2017: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. Rev Dr Boris Gunjević. Name:. Rev Dr Boris Gunjević. Member for. 7 years 4 months. A unique institute of advanced studies inspired by Catholic thought and culture, focussed on

6 Apr 2017: Jointly organised with the Baroness Warsi Foundation & the Woolf Institute

28 Apr 2017: John Henry Newman has been celebrated as a great thinker and as a great stylist. Yet Newman insisted that his elegance as a writer was no more than an accidental side-effect of his commitment to expressive clarity. But is that true?

31 May 2017: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. Professor Heidemarie Winkel. Professor Heidemarie Winkel. Name:. Professor Heidemarie Winkel. Member for. 7 years 1 month. A unique institute of advanced studies inspired by Catholic

16 Feb 2017: Most discussions of dialogue, consensus, disagreement and the like rest on an ideology of liberal pluralism. The paper will offer a critique of this ideology in general, and ask how agreement and disagreement appear in light of this.

31 Oct 2017: How does the creation of credit enable something to come from nothing? This talk will explore the metaphysics of credit by considering it as distinct from market exchange and in relation to grounds for faith.

17 Nov 2017: Lidia Ripamonti has published five articles in the new Edith Stein - Lexikon (Herder, 2017).

13 Nov 2017: The lecture looks at the poetry of George Mackay Brown and Patrick Kavanagh through the lens of two key texts by the modernist poet and writer, David Jones: the Preface to The Anathemata and Art and Sacrament.  All three writers were Catholic;

6 Mar 2017: The video of Terry Eagleton's lecture 'How to Disagree Without Being a Liberal Pluralist' and of the Annual Von Hügel Lecture by Cardinal Luis Tagle are now available online on our YouTube Channel The complete collection of video and audio

20 Sep 2017: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. Professor Walter van Herck. Professor Walter van Herck. Name:. Professor Walter van Herck. Member for. 6 years 10 months. A unique institute of advanced studies inspired by Catholic

19 Jan 2017: PHILIP ALLOTT with a response from MARK ENGELMAN. A central theme of Philip Allott’s recent book Eutopia is that the human mind uses a dialectical process of contradictions, dilemmas, and paradoxes to form reality at every level, social and

28 Apr 2017: How do disagreement and eventual agreement function in politics? What works? What doesn’t? Are the ways we conduct political discourse changing? The last year has arguably seen a loss of the virtues of reasonable, textured disagreement in politics

6 Mar 2017: On Sunday 5 March the VHI Director, Dr Philip McCosker, will run the Cambridge Half Marathon in support of our Institute.

27 Feb 2017: Julian Baggini, Lorna Donlon, and Michael O'Loughlin CHANGE OF DATE AND VENUE! Please note that this event will take place on Thursday 9th March in the College Chapel, and not in the Garden Room on Friday as previously announced.

11 Oct 2017: Dr Vlado Kmec published a new journal article: Transnational and Local: Multiple Functions of Religious Communities of EU Migrants in Dublin in  Journal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions, Volume 5 (2017) pp. 20-39.   

31 May 2017: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. Professor Heidemarie Winkel. Heidemarie Winkel was educated in sociology and economics at the University of Trier (Germany); she completed her Habilitation (professoral thesis) at the

17 Nov 2017: On the 5 hundredth anniversary of the publication of Martin Luther's Ninety Five Theses in Mainz, one of our former Visiting fellows, Dr Fintan Lyons O.S.B., a monk of Glenstal Abbey, Ireland has published a book, Martin Luther his Challenge Then

20 Sep 2017: On Friday 15 September the Von Hügel Institute for Critical Catholic Inquiry held its first annual Research Day.

19 Dec 2017: The VHI is delighted to welcome doctoral student Jeroen Jans from Radboud University (the Netherlands) who will be spending a few months in Cambridge to work on his PhD in empirical religious studies.

4 Dec 2017: The Pope’s immediate goal is to enable a more reliable and realistic approach in deciphering the experiences of people in modern family life.