Hugo Anthony Meynell
Personal Details
Hugo Anthony Meynell (born 23 March 1936), Meynell Langley, Derbyshire, England, shortly after the death of his father, Captain Godfrey Meynell, who won the Victoria Cross in action against Afghan raiders in India's Khyber Pass.[1] Hugo grew up as a member of an English family which arrived in England with the Norman conquest of England.[2] He was educated at Eton, and King's College at the University of Cambridge where he obtained his PhD and is listed in the Canadian Who's Who .[3] He was elected a member of the prestigious Royal Society of Canada in 1993.[citation needed]
Academic career
After completing his graduate work Dr. Meynell taught at the University of Leeds before moving to the University of Calgary in 1981. There he wrote thirteen academic books and numerous peer reviewed articles one of the most recent beingPostmodernism and the New Enlightenment (1999)[4].and his regular articles and reviews in the Hythrop Journal and similar publications.[5]
Christian Rationalism
Meynell is perhaps best described as a "Christian Rationalist" in the tradition of Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)and, more recently, Bernard Lonergan (1904-1984) on whose work he has written extensively.[citation needed] His numerous books on include works on philosophy, psychology and even music. A devout Roman Catholic convert he has an evangelical outlook and sympathy for British and American Protestantism.[citation needed] He also shares a healthy distaste for so-called Postmodernism and related academic fads.[6][improper synthesis?] Currently, he is engaged in a study of contemporary atheism.[7]
Publications
Meynell's many publications include:
- God and the World: the Coherence of Christian Theism,London, S.P.C.K., 1971
- An Introduction to the Philosophy of Bernard Lonergan, New York : Barnes & Noble Books, 1976
- Freud, Marx, and Morals, Totowa, N.J. : Barnes & Noble Books, 1981
- The Intelligible Universe: A Cosmological Argument, Totowa, N.J. : Barnes & Noble, 1982
- The Theology of Bernard Lonergan, Atlanta, Ga. : Scholars Press, 1986
- The Art of Handel's Operas, Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen Press, 1986
- Is Christianity true?,Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, 1994
- Redirecting philosophy: Reflections of the Nature of Knowledge from Plato to Lonergan,Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1998
- Postmodernism and the New Enlightenment,Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, 1999
References
- ^ The Times, London, Saturday, Oct. 5, 1935, p. 18 and The Times, London, Friday, Dec 27, 1935; pg. 7;
- ^ Cf. Burke's Landed Gentry, London, Shaw Pub. Co., 1937 and the National Register of Archives found at:
- http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?ID=F6370&tabType=HISTORY and numerous other Internet sites of Derbyshire
- ^ Canadian Who's Who, Toronto, University of Toronto Press 1996-2008
- ^ Postmodernism and the New Enlightenment,Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, 1999
- ^ Cf. "Hugo Meynell in Religious and Theological Abstracts
- ^ Redirecting philosophy: Reflections of the Nature of Knowledge from Plato to Lonergan,Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1998
- ^ Cf. The Heythrop Journal, Volume 37 Issue 3, Pages 336 - 347