Behold Your King

by Dr Alan Fimister

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COURSE OVERVIEW

Men must look for the peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ…

The gospels present this kingdom as one which men prepare to enter by penance, and cannot actually enter except by faith and by baptism, which, though an external rite, signifies and produces an interior regeneration.

—Pope Pius XI, Quas Primas
(11 December 1925) 1 & 15.

2025 is the centenary of Pius XI’s Encyclical Quas Primas instituting the Feast of Christ the King. It is also the 1,700th anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea, which defined that Our Lord Jesus Christ is consubstantial with the Father, true God from true God.

In commemoration of these events Voice of the Family, in conjunction with the Dialogos Institute and Restore Tradition presents a seven-part course on the Kingship of Christ, the Word Incarnate, closely following the text of Quas Primas.

The course is led by Dr Alan Fimister, Assistant Professor of Dogmatic Theology at Holy Apostles College and Seminary in Connecticut and Director of the Dialogos Institute.

The course, led by Dr Alan Fimister, consists of seven ninety-minute classes, given throughout Lent 2025.

IN THIS COURSE, YOU WILL LEARN

  • The background to the Feast of Christ the King in Catholic Social Teaching
  • The significance of this teaching in a time of secular internationalism
  • The roots of this teaching in Scripture and Tradition
Dr Alan Fimister

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PRICE     $79 (£65)
               $40 (£30)

THE COURSE INCLUDES

  • 7 weekly lessons
  • of 90 minutes each
  • including Q&A
  • then on demand
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Course programme

Quas Primas as the climax of Leonine Catholic Social Teaching.

Optional Reading: Pius XI, Ubi Arcano Dei Consilio, (23 December 1922)

FIRST BROADCAST on Monday 3 March at 12pm EST (5pm GMT)

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The supernatural basis of true international amity.

Optional Reading: Pius XII, Summi Pontificatus (20 October 1939)

FIRST BROADCAST on Monday 10 March 2025 at 12pm EDT (4pm GMT)

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The biblical basis of Christ’s Kingship.

Optional Reading: St Thomas Aquinas, De Regno 

FIRST BROADCAST on Monday 17 March 2025 at 12pm EDT (4pm GMT)

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Christological basis of Christ’s Kingship.

Optional Reading: St Pope Leo the Great, Letter 28, The Tome “To Flavian” (451) 

FIRST BROADCAST on Monday 24 March 2025 at 12pm EDT (4pm GMT)

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Acquired Kingship.

Optional Reading: St Thomas Aquinas,  Summa Theologaie IIIa, 8

FIRST BROADCAST on Monday 31 March 2025 at 12pm EDT (5pm GMT+1)

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What would the Social Kingship of Christ look like?

Optional Reading: Leo XIII, Libertas (20 June 1888)

FIRST BROADCAST on Monday 7 April 2025 at 12pm EDT (5pm GMT+1)

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The Feast of the Kingship of Christ its purpose and destiny.

Optional Reading: Leo XIII, Annum Sacrum (25 May 1899)

FIRST BROADCAST on Monday 14 April 2025 at 12pm EDT (5pm GMT+1)

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Dr Alan Fimister

Dr Alan Fimister is Director of the Dialogos Institute. He studied at Oxford University (1994–1999), where he was senior scholar in theology at Exeter College and president of Oxford University's Newman Society.

He also studied at the International Theological Institute in Austria (2000–2002), before doing his PhD and teaching at the University of Aberdeen (2002–2007), after which he returned to teach at the International Theological Institute.

Dr Fimister has also taught for the Franciscan University of Steubenville, the University of Mary, Saint John Vianney Theological Seminary and the Augustine Institute.

He has written for the Spectator, the Catholic Herald, LifeSiteNews, the National Catholic Register and the Daily Caller. He published Robert Schuman: Neo-Scholastic Humanism and the Reunification of Europe (2008) and Integralism: A Manual of Politics Philosophy (2020) with Fr Thomas Crean OP.

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