Hugo Anthony Meynell

Hugo Anthony Meynell (born 23 March 1936), Meynell Langley, Derbyshire, England, is an English academic and author. Born half a year after the death of his father, Captain Godfrey Meynell, who was awarded the Victoria Cross for 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. He was elected a member of the Royal Society of Canada in 1993,[3] and is listed in the Canadian Who's Who.[4]

Academic career

After completing his graduate work Dr. Meynell taught at the University of Leeds before moving to the University of Calgary in 1981. He has written thirteen academic books[5] and numerous peer reviewed articles as well as regular book reviews in the Heythrop Journal and similar publications.[6]

Christian Rationalism

Meynell describes himself as a "Christian Rationalist" in the tradition of Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) and Bernard Lonergan (1904-1984), on whose work he has written.[7] His numerous books include works on philosophy, psychology, and even music.[8] A devout Roman Catholic convert, he has an evangelical outlook and sympathy for British and American Protestantism. In his recent books he expresses a strong distaste for postmodernism and what he calls "academic fads".[9] Currently, he is engaged in a study of contemporary atheism.[10]

Books

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

  1. ↑ The Times, London, Saturday, Oct. 5, 1935, p. 18 and The Times, London, Friday, Dec 27, 1935; pg. 7;
  2. ↑ Burke's Landed Gentry, London, Shaw Pub. Co., 1937
  3. ↑ [Lumley 1996, p851; Membership record for Hugo Meynell, Royal Society of Canada
  4. ↑ Elizabeth Lumley, ed.,Canadian Who's Who, Toronto, University of Toronto Press 1996, pp. 851.852
  5. ↑ Eleven of these are listed in Lumley, p. 1996, the other two are Redirecting philosophy: Reflections of the Nature of Knowledge from Plato to Lonergan, Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1998; and Postmodernism and the New Enlightenment, Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1999
  6. ↑ Cf. "Hugo Meynell" in Religious and Theological Abstracts
  7. ↑ Hugo Meynell, "The Theology of Bernard Lonergan", Atlanta, Ga. : Scholars Press, 1986
  8. ↑ See his books: 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, and The Art of Handel's Operas, Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen Press, 1986
  9. ↑ Cf. Redirecting philosophy: Reflections of the Nature of Knowledge from Plato to Lonergan, Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1998, pp. x-xii
  10. ↑ Cf. The Heythrop Journal, Volume 37 Issue 3, Pages 336 - 347
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