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27 Sep 2016: Conflict Resolution and Interreligious Encounter Disability and Knowledge Patents on Life Sisters in Arms: Reinventing the Bond Between Philosophy and Theology after the 'Empirical Turn' Catholic Social Thought and the Big Society Open, Distance and

3 Nov 2016: Dr Gorazd Andrejč will illustrate how Wittgenstein’s work has been used by different approaches to interreligious dis/agreement and how it can elucidate such dis/agreements today.

21 Oct 2016: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. Stephen Hough CBE. Stephen Hough CBE is a classical pianist, composer, and author. In 2001 he was the first classical performing artist to win a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. He

22 Sep 2016: Reviews in Religion and Theology (RRT) is the premier international review journal in the fields of philosophy of religion, religious studies, theology, and ethics.

2 Feb 2016: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. Dr David Elliot. Name:. Dr David Elliot. Member for. 8 years 4 months. A unique institute of advanced studies inspired by Catholic thought and culture, focussed on contemporary global

19 Sep 2016: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. Rev Dr Luigi Gioia. Dr. Luigi Gioia received his D.Phil at Oxford University (Christ Church) where he worked on Greek Christology, Gregory of Nazianzus and then on a doctoral

6 Jan 2016: Mercy emerges from the writings of Dante and Shakespeare as a complex, even contentious, theme, both dangerous and joyous.

19 Sep 2016: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. Professor Philip Sheldrake. Philip Sheldrake was educated at the University of Oxford and University of London and obtained research degrees in history and theology. He taught first

12 Feb 2016: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. Dr Dominic Aidan Bellenger. Dominic Aidan Bellenger was a member of the Downside Abbey community in Somerset for many years, where he was variously parish priest, prior, head master

21 Oct 2016: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. Manuel Castells. Manuel Castells is a sociologist widely known for his research on the information society, communication and globalization. He is currently Director of Research in

19 Sep 2016: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. Rev Dr Luigi Gioia. You can see theReal name:. Name:. Rev Dr Luigi Gioia. Member for. 7 years 9 months. A unique institute of advanced studies inspired by Catholic thought and culture,

15 Feb 2016: Iain McGilchrist’s epic work The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World (Yale UP, 2009) builds on vast neuroscientific research to highlight different ways of being in and relating to the world based on

8 Feb 2016: While some guardians of “orthodoxy” have tended to claim the theological high-ground and downplay Pope Francis’ challenges in this Jubilee of Mercy as merely “pastoral” words and gestures, of little doctrinal import, James Alison will

16 Mar 2016: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. Dr Daniel De Haan. Name:. Dr Daniel De Haan. Member for. 8 years 3 months. A unique institute of advanced studies inspired by Catholic thought and culture, focussed on contemporary

18 May 2016: Hosted in conjunction with the Faculty of Divinity New Testament Senior Seminar

5 Sep 2016: This a selection of past research initiatives at the VHI, which have either been brought to completion or are not currently active. For more information please contact the project's principal investigator or the VHI team.

14 Nov 2016: The panel will reflect on the ethical and practical dilemmas that states, international institutions, the Christian churches, and other faith-based actors face in seeking to respond in a responsible and effective manner to the current migrant

21 Oct 2016: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. Iain McGilchrist. Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist and writer, formerly Research Fellow at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, USA and three times elected Fellow of All Souls College,

21 Nov 2016: How can disagreement help in the pursuit of greater catholicity? How do varieties of difference help us grow? Austen Ivereigh will tease out Pope Francis’ encouragement of diversity, conversation, and disagreement in key aspects of his reforming

23 Sep 2016: The VHI was founded in 1987 to ‘preserve and develop’ the Catholic traditions of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge.

19 Sep 2016: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. Professor Philip Sheldrake. Professor Philip Sheldrake. Name:. Professor Philip Sheldrake. Member for. 7 years 9 months. A unique institute of advanced studies inspired by Catholic

27 May 2016: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. Article on the Christology of Pope Francis published in 'Ecclesiology' by Dr Philip McCosker. VHI Director Dr Philip McCosker has published an article in the theology

14 Jan 2016: Former VHI director Prof John Loughlin and research associate

29 Apr 2016: We are pleased to announce the launch of the Centre for Catholic Social Thought and Practice on 13th June 2016.

16 Nov 2016: The November special issue of the US journal Current History, dedicated to the theme of Diasporas, features an article on notions of transnational Islam by VHI Director of Research

27 Sep 2016: 2023: Free and Equal: What Would a Fair Society Look Like?

21 Oct 2016: Over the last year the VHI has been reconsidering its mission. As we look towards our thirtieth anniversary year, which will fall in the 2017-18 academic year, it is a good time to refresh our vision and identity. The first fruits of that process

8 Dec 2016: Dr Sara Silvestri, on Thursday 8 December at 6pm at City University of London. The event is organised by the Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS) and is free to attend. Click here for more details.

23 Jun 2016: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. New Publication: The Cambridge Companion to the Summa Theologiae, edited by Philip McCosker and Denys Turner. VHI Director Dr Philip McCosker is co-editor with Professor Denys Turner

24 Nov 2016: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. Philip McCosker gives keynote lecture at ACU/CUA seminar 'Conceiving Change in the Church'. VHI Director Dr Philip McCosker gave the opening keynote lecture at the seminar Conceiving

14 Oct 2016: On Saturday 19 November VHI Research Associate

5 Oct 2016: The VHI is delighted to welcome Professor Philip Sheldrake as a new Senior Research Associate, and Professor Luigi Gioia OSB and Dr Elif Çetin as new Research Associates, beginning 1st October 2016. Luigi Gioia is Associate Professor of Systema

20 Jan 2016: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. Dr Silvestri speaks at CAMMIGRES Seminar on Faith and Migration. gave a talk on "Understanding faith in migrants’ lives: challenges & opportunities for social cohesion in a diverse

27 Oct 2016: The VHI is seeking a tenacious, enterprising, and innovative fundraiser to lead a major campaign for a unique research institute in the University of Cambridge

24 Feb 2016: Nicholas King SJ with a response from Christopher Rowland

9 Dec 2016: ABSTRACT: "Subjective information about people's quality of life has always received bad press in the human development paradigm and the capability approach, despite their influence in the promotion of

26 Jul 2016: Dr Elif Çetin are co-authors, with Christopher Hill, of the chapter "Il fenomeno migratorio e i problemi del multiculturalismo in Italia" (Migration and the challenges of Italian multiculturalism), in Maurizio Carbone and Simona Piattoni (

20 Apr 2016: Papers from the VHI conference ‘

3 Feb 2016: VHI Director of Research and St Edmund's College Bye-Fellow

16 Apr 2016: Throughout our social, political, and cultural lives—online as well as offline—we see increasing oppositional and bitter disagreement. Have we forgotten the virtues of disagreement in moving towards agreement? Have we forgotten how to disagree

15 Jan 2016: Do people have a moral nature? If so, is it determined by self-interest or by sentiment and sympathy?

21 Oct 2016: We are pleased to announce the programme for our 2016-17 themed lecture series, entitled 'Dynamics of Dis/Agreement'.  Throughout our social, political, and cultural lives—online as well as offline—we see increasing oppositional and bitter

29 Apr 2016: Dr Sara Silvestri was a guest speaker at the Home Affairs Committee conference on countering extremism held in Cambridge on April 21st, and which is part of the evidence gathering of the government inquiry into Countering Extremism.

5 Apr 2016: Maggi Hambling, Ben Quash, and James Cahill

27 May 2016: Most biblical, theological and philosophical understandings of mercy were conceived in very different contexts to our own, globalised and urbanised world.

27 May 2016: Music is a key element of the culture which forms us. How can the musical arts represent mercy? Can it discourage or encourage its practice?

25 May 2016: With Europe and the world in the grip of a major migration crisis, sorely testing all political and practical resources, we ask: what does mercy look like in this context? How can mercy be practised in the context of migration? What are the

1 Mar 2016: In Lent and Easter terms 2016 we are hosting a research group on the theme of St Paul and radical philosophy.

14 Mar 2016: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. Article on Ivan Illich published in Telos by Dr Simon Ravenscroft. s article "Modernity and the Economics of Gift and Charity: On Ivan Illich's Critique of Abstract Philanthropy" has

1 Sep 2016: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. Simon Ravenscroft publishes book chapter in French edited collection on Ivan Illich. has a chapter in the recently published collection, Ivan Illich, l'alchimiste des possibles (Paris