Biography:
I have been a Fellow of Blackfriars Hall and Lector in the Blackfriars Studium since 1998, serving as Vice-Regent (1998 to 2004), Regent (2004 until 2012), Secretary of Studies (2016-2018, 2023-) and Director of the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice (2016-2025). Since 2018 I have also served as Provincial Archivist. In addition to being a member of the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice, I am a member of the Centre for Catholic Social Thought and Practice, and am a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Research Areas:
History of Christianity
Patristics
English Dominican History
Research Interests:
- The relationship of Christian discourse to practice in the Early Church, especially with respect to almsgiving, the portrayal of the poor, asceticism, and the rise of religious life; the theology of St. Augustine.
- The thought of St Augustine in the Early and Medieval Church; the history of the friars, and in particular the history of the English Dominican Province; the theology of justice and peace.
Links:
https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/people/fr-richard-finn-op/
Publications and Research Outputs:
Almsgiving in the Later Roman Empire
Asceticism in the Greco-Roman World
Dominicans in the British Isles and Beyond
