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, Hugo grew up as a member of an English family which arrived in England with the Norman conquest of England. 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, and is listed in the Canadian Who's Who.

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 and numerous peer reviewed articles as well as regular book reviews in the Heythrop Journal and similar publications.

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. His numerous books 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. In his recent books he expresses a strong distaste for postmodernism and what he calls "academic fads". Currently, he is engaged in a study of contemporary atheism.

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