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18 April 2004 Fr Aidan Nichols, O.P. in Australia. While English Dominican and renowned lecturer in Theology, the Very Reverend Fr Aidan Nichols, O.P., taught an intensive course in April 2004 in the thought of Hans Urs von Balthasar at the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family, Melbourne, he stayed at our Centre for Institutional Studies, St Dominic's Priory, Camberwell, Victoria. Born in 1948, entered the Dominican Order in 1970, ordained priest in 1976, Fr Aidan is a lecturer in the Cambridge University Faculty of Divinity and Prior of St Michael the Archangel, Cambridge. During his time at Oxford he completed a B.A. in Modern History in 1970, a M.A. in 1974, and a Diploma of Theology in 1977. The Lectorate (Master) of Sacred Theology (S.T.Lr) was also conferred by the English Dominican Studium in 1977. In 1986 he was awarded his Doctorate in Philosophy at Edinburgh. An S.T.L. was conferred by the Pontifical University of St Thomas (Angelicum), Rome, in 1990. He has been Chaplain to Edinburgh University (1977-1983), lecturer in the History of Christian Doctrine and Ecumenics at the Angelicum (1983-1991), and a Catholic Chaplain to Cambridge University (1991-95). Fr Aidan is the most prolific writer of theology in the English language in the world today and has published on countless topics in theology including more than 25 major books and numerous articles in systematic, sacramental and ecumenical theology. For more information about Fr Aidan, visit: http://www.christendom-awake.org/pages/anichols/nichols-homepage.html |
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