Courses

Learning, in the long tradition

All classes are taught live online. Course notes and reading are sent by email each week. Open to students of any faith — or none.

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Our introductory programme

Introductory offer — €50

Faith and Reason

A nine-month programme in three modules, taught live online each Tuesday evening. It sets out to recover the philosophical and metaphysical foundations that underpin any serious engagement with the Christian faith — foundations too many adult courses assume, or skip.

Suitable for Catholics who want to solidify the reasoning behind what they believe; for Protestants open to understanding the ancient faith and what happened in the sixteenth century; and for any serious enquirer of no fixed tradition. This special introductory price is available on this first programme only.

Three modules

1

Metaphysical Foundation of Reality

The philosophical groundwork — logic, causation, the nature of truth, evil, justice, God, and the soul.
2

The Error of the Reformation

The philosophical and theological dislocations of the sixteenth century, examined honestly and in full.
3

The Faith of the Ancient Church

Recovering the deep continuity of Christian teaching — what was believed, taught, and lived from the earliest centuries.

Starts

Tuesday 13 October 2026

Schedule

Tuesdays 7–8pm (Ireland)

Duration

Nine months

Format

Live online classes

Materials

Sent by email each week

A word from the instructor

“I feel the faith is collapsing in Ireland, Germany, Austria — and we must, and can, respond. We can empower people to know, and allow others to explore, the truth of the faith and reason. It makes a huge difference.”

Marcel Guarnizo

Module One in detail

Recovering the philosophical foundation

The first module lays the intellectual groundwork for everything that follows. The postmodern era is fundamentally an anti-philosophical ideology — it seeks to dissolve the foundations of reason itself. The result is a culture that is ethically, philosophically, and theologically unsound.

Before we can teach theology honestly, we must recover the ability to think honestly. This module does exactly that: foundational logic and metaphysics, and how they apply to any serious understanding of the faith.

1.The crisis of thought (epistemology)

2.How do we know?

3.First principles of logic

4.Change, movement, and their consequences

5.The question of evil

6.The question of truth & justice

7.Rational demonstrations for the existence of God

8.On the nature of God

9.On the nature of the soul

10.Further topic — to be announced

Also in preparation

Further courses will be announced in the coming terms. Register your interest and we will write to you when enrolment opens.

Coming soon

Newman on Conscience

Newman's own writings on the inner voice of conscience, its formation, and its authority.

Coming soon

The Irish Monastic Tradition

How the monks of Ireland preserved the intellectual life of Europe — and what they still have to teach us.

Coming soon

Reading Aquinas

A guided walk through selected passages of the Summa Theologiae. No Latin required, no prior study assumed.

Questions about the programme?

We are happy to answer them. Get in touch and we will write back personally.

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