Richard Finn was educated at
St Catharine's College, Cambridge (
BA English,
MA). He joined the
Order of Preachers in 1985 and was
ordained a
Priest in the
Roman Catholic Church in 1990. He read
Classical Moderations and
Literae Humaniores at
Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he was awarded the Haigh Prize. After a period as Chaplain to the
University of Leicester he became Assistant Chaplain at
Fisher House, Cambridge. He completed a
MPhil at
Jesus College, Cambridge. Returning to
Corpus, he studied for a
DPhil, producing a thesis entitled
The Christian promotion and practice of almsgiving in the later Roman Empire: (313-450), which was supervised by
Averil Cameron and
Peter Garnsey. It formed the basis of his book
Almsgiving in the later Roman Empire: Christian promotion and practice (313-450) (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2006). He became Regent of
Blackfriars, Oxford in September 2004, and is Chair of the advisory board of its Las Casas Institute on ethics, governance and social justice. His second book,
Asceticism in the Graeco-Roman World, has been published by
Cambridge University Press (2009). He is an adviser to the
Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. He has been a lecturer at the
Centre for Christianity and Culture (Regent's Park College, Oxford) and at
Melbourne College of Divinity. ==Sermons==