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Profile
Ralph
McInerny holds degrees from the St.Paul Seminary, University
of Minnesota and Laval University. He has taught at the University
of Notre Dame since 1955 and since 1978 he has been the Michael
P. Grace Professor of Medieval Studies. For seven years he
was director of the Medieval Institute; since 1979 he has
been director of the Jacques Maritain Center.
He
has published extensively both academically and in the field
of fiction. In the first category are Aquinas and Analogy,
The Question of Christian Ethics, Aquinas on Human Action
and the Penguin Classic, Thomas Aquinas Selected Writing. His biography of Jacques Maritain, The Very Rich Hours of
Jacques Maritain has just appeared (2003). He is the author
of the Father Dowling mysteries, the most recent of which
is Last Things (2003), the Andrew Broom mysteries,
the Sister Mary Teresa mysteries and a series of mysteries
set at the University of Notre Dame, the most recent of which
is Irish Coffee (2003).
He
has served as president of the American Catholic Philosophical
Association, The Metaphysical Society, the American Maritain
Society and the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars. He has been
visiting professor at nearly a dozen universities and is the
recipient of various fellowships, honors and awards, among
them the Bouchercon Lifetime Achievement award. He is a fellow
of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas.
His Gifford Lectures, delivered in Glasgow in 1999-2000,
were published under the title Characters in Search of
Their Author (2001).
He was recently appointed to membership on President
Bush’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities. |
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