In this, his last public lecture at the University of Oxford in 2024, Andrew Pinsent examines the connection between humane philosophy and what Catholic Christianity refers to as divinisation, also called the supernatural life or the life of grace.
FR ANDREW PINSENT has been Research Director of the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion at the University of Oxford, 2009-2024, and is now on the Faculty of a Catholic seminary, the Athenaeum of Ohio, also called the Seminary of the West. Formerly a particle physicist on the DELPHI experiment at CERN, he has degrees in philosophy and theology and a second doctorate in philosophy. He is the author of The Second-Person Perspective in Aquinas’s Ethics: Virtues and Gifts and a wide range of other publications in virtue ethics, neurotheology, science and religion, the philosophy of the person, insight, divine action, and the nature of evil. In the media, in schools, and at a great diversity of other venues, he is a regular contributor to public engagement with science and faith issues.
