Relational ontology research

The ROR projects stems from the conviction that overcoming the contemporary crisis requires an ontological work to extend metaphysics to the relational dimension.

This can be achieved from different fronts: from the analysis of patristic thought to anthropology; from the awareness of the fundamental role of hermenutics to the relationship with the social sciences.

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Nature Lost, Nature Regained

Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Roma, 24-26 giugno 2026

The Centre for Theology and Philosophy and the Relational Ontology Research (ROR) Group of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross (Santa Croce, Rome) invite scholars from across disciplines to explore the contested idea of nature. Once regarded as the very ground of intelligibility—what Aristotle called physis and the scholastics treated as a principle of order—nature in modernity has been dismantled, dissolved, or reduced to a functional mechanism. Declared obsolete by some, defended or reimagined by others, “nature” remains at the center of our deepest debates: about the human person, technology, freedom, metaphysics, and meaning itself. The conference is co-sponsored by ICT (Toulouse), St Mary Seminary and University (Baltimore), Triertium (Olomouc) and New Trinitarian Ontologies (Austin).

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