Grammar of Consent

John Christopher "Aidan" Nichols OP is an English academic and Catholic priest. Nichols served as the first John Paul II Memorial Visiting Lecturer at the University of Oxford for 2006 to 2008, the first lectureship of Catholic theology at that university since the Protestant Reformation.

"This is a splendid book, a little masterpiece in the genre of wide-ranging surveys. Aidan Nichols ... writes with the mastery, balance and gracefulness that comes only from a lifetime of disciplined study and teaching." —The Christian Century"... a wealth of solid food to nourish and keep one strong in the way of faith. Aidan Nichols scores high as an imaginative thinker and a philosophically astute theologian." —Living Prayer"Nichols allows his readers to exercise their own illative powers and see glimpses of the divine arising less by explication than by storytelling and evocation." —Philosophy and Philosophy of Religion