Columba Ryan
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Columba Ryan OP (born Patrick Ryan, 13 January 1916 in Hampstead – 4 August 2009) was a British priest of the Dominican Order and a philosophy teacher, university chaplain, and pastor. He was the brother of John Ryan, the British animator and cartoonist.
Life
Patrick Ryan was born in
At the age of 30 (in 1946) he completed his DPhil at
Ryan had an analytical mind and enjoyed philosophical controversy and debate. While teaching philosophy at the Dominican House of Studies at
He was briefly in charge of studies at Blackfriars, Oxford, where he was pro-regent of studies,[2] then became chaplain to the Catholic students at the University of Strathclyde.
Ryan's contribution to philosophy and theology was more through his influence on the people he taught, although a short piece 'The Traditional Concept of Natural Law: an Interpretation' (which he claimed to have written on the train before he gave it as a lecture) has been influential.
He was an early pioneer of religious broadcasting, producing and narrating films about the religious life.[4]
He died, aged 93, on what was then the Feast of
References
- Obituary, The Times, August 19, 2009.
- Independent Catholic News August 10, 2009
- Anthony J. Lisska, Aquinas's theory of natural law: an analytic reconstruction
- The Catholic Herald September 2009
Notes
- ^ Homily at Columba Ryan's Funeral by Vivian Boland OP, St Dominic's Priory, London, 18 August 2009.
- ^ Catholic Herald 2009
- ^ Catholic News 2009, see also Lisska p.80
- ^ Catholic Herald 2009
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