by Amanda Reid | 16 Sep, 2021
Cultural Cycles & Climate Change is a wake-up call for people of all ages and cultures to look more honestly and objectively at the dominant conditions in our society today, the better to decide the way forward. The cyclical view of time, rarely used in the study...
by Amanda Reid | 16 Sep, 2021
Bonaventure was the great theologian of the early Franciscans. He was the last flowering of Christian-Platonism before new theology inspired by Aristotle began to dominate in the west. To Bonaventure Love took precedence over Knowledge. In this talk we will introduce...
by Amanda Reid | 13 Sep, 2021
Saint Francis famously affirmed the value and meaning of Nature as Theophany. The aim of this session is to show how the Image of Mary is inseparable from the early Franciscans’ understanding of the goodness of the Cosmos and how this vision has been lost in the west....
by Amanda Reid | 13 Sep, 2021
St Cecilia was a third-century Roman Christian martyr, but how did she come to be patron saint of music and something of a mysterious icon? Her story may have developed by pure accident – misread texts and wishful thinking, but although Cecilia may be a strange...
by Amanda Reid | 7 Sep, 2021 | News
In our full September newsletter, you’ll find a complete listing of our autumn events happening online and in person at Fintry. The calendar note looks at Paracelsus the Hermetist, born Theophrastus von Hohenheim in Einsiedeln in present-day Switzerland. Read...
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