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Creed

20 March 2023

1 min read

On virtues

Brining together a series of articles on virtue, this page will be updated during Lent 2023, as Andrew's articles are published.

Andrew Davison

Andrew works at the intersection of theology, science and philosophy. He is Canon and Regius Professor of Divinity at Christ Church, Oxford.

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Creed

Virtues

How to encourage a second nature of virtue

Andrew Davison

Cultivating virtue could make you cheerful. Andrew Davison explore the benefits. The first in a five part series for Lent.

2023-03-14

Where the good, the true, the human, and the real meet

Andrew Davison

In the second of his series on virtue, Andrew Davison explores the underrated virtue of prudence as the ability to live aligned with the grain of the universe.

2023-03-17

Justice: a premium virtue

Andrew Davison

In the third of his series on virtue, Andrew Davison weighs what justice says today, particularly on impartiality.

6 min read

2023-03-03

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Creed

Virtues

An etching show a woman operating a cannon, while dead comrades lie at her feet.

The means of courage: sober and swashbuckling

Andrew Davison

The ‘bracing and realistic virtue’ of courage is explored by Andrew Davison in the fourth of his series on virtue.

2023-03-29

Temperance: for the lovers of life

Andrew Davison

Restraint forms the river banks that allow a human life to flow deep and true. Andrew Davison concludes his series on virtue.

3 min read

2023-04-08

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Seen & Unseen Aloud

7 April 2025

1 min read

Frankenstein, friendship and assisted dying

Revisiting Never Let Me Go, invest in friends, and who will be impacted by assisted dying.

Natalie Garrett

Natalie produces and narrates The Seen & Unseen Aloud podcast. She's an Anglican minister and a trained actor.

A close up of a forehead bearing an ash cross marked on it.

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This week, Beatrice Scudeler revisits Kazuo Ishiguro’s brilliant novel, Never Let Me Go as the perfect Frankenstein story for today; Tom Dove invites us to visit the Friendship Lab and take risks by investing in our friends; Ryan Rodrigues introduces us to the people he believes will be most affected by legalising assisted dying.

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