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. ["The Times", London, Saturday, Oct. 5, 1935, p. 18 and "The Times", London, Friday, Dec 27, 1935; pg. 7;] Hugo grew up as a member of an English family which arrived in England with the Norman conquest of England. ["Burke's Landed Gentry", London, Shaw Pub. Co., 1937] 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" . [Elizabeth Lumley, ed.,"Canadian Who's Who", Toronto, University of Toronto Press 1996, pp. 851.852] He was elected a member of the Royal Society of Canada in 1993. [ [Lumley 1996, p851; [http://www.rsc.ca/index.php?page_id=96&lang_id=1&first_name=Hugo&last_name=Meynell&academy=&institute_name=&year_election=&submit=Search Membership record for Hugo Meynell] , Royal Society of Canada]

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 [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] and numerous peer reviewed articles as well as regular book reviews in the "Hythrop Journal" and similar publications. [Cf. "Hugo Meynell" in "Religious and Theological Abstracts"]

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. [Hugo Meynell, "The Theology of Bernard Lonergan", Atlanta, Ga. : Scholars Press, 1986] His numerous books on include works on philosophy, psychology and even music. [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] 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 so-called Postmodernism and what he calls "academic fads." [Cf. "Redirecting philosophy: Reflections of the Nature of Knowledge from Plato to Lonergan",Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1998, pp. x-xii] Currently, he is engaged in a study of contemporary atheism. [Cf. "The Heythrop Journal", Volume 37 Issue 3, Pages 336 - 347]

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

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