James McEvoy (philosopher)

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James Joseph McEvoy
Queen’s University of Belfast

St Patrick's College, Maynooth

Christian Neo-Platonism
Thesis (1974)

James J. McEvoy (14 October 1943 in

philosopher and priest. His principal academic interests were related to medieval philosophy, particularly the work of John Scotus Eriugena and Robert Grosseteste
. He also wrote about the philosophy of friendship.

Biography

McEvoy undertook undergraduate and postgraduate study in the Department of Scholastic Philosophy at

Université catholique de Louvain for a dissertation on the philosophy of Grosseteste, which he wrote under the supervision of Fernand Van Steenberghen.[2][3][4]

McEvoy held chairs of philosophy at The Queen’s University Belfast (1975–88), Louvain-la-Neuve (1988–95), and Maynooth (1995-2004). He served as dean of the Faculty of Philosophy of the

National University of Ireland Maynooth. He was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 1982 and conferred with an honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Leicester at Lincoln Cathedral in 2004, the same year that a volume on friendship, Amor amicitiae, was published in his honour.[5]

Bibliography

  • The Philosophy of Robert Grosseteste (Clarendon Press, 1982)
  • Robert Grosseteste: Exegete and Philosopher (Variorum, 1994)
  • Roberti Grosseteste: New Perspectives on his Thought and Scholarship (Brepols, 1995)
  • (ed.) Roberti Grosseteste: Expositio in Epistolam Sancti Pauli ad Galatas (Brepols, 1995)
  • (ed., with J. Follon) Sagesses de l'amitié (2 vols, Editions du Cerf, 1997, 2003). An anthology of texts on friendship from Antiquity to the Renaissance.
  • Robert Grosseteste, Great Medieval Thinkers Series (Oxford University Press, 2000)
  • (ed., with Michael Dunne) History and Eschatology in John Scottus Eriugena and his Time (Leuven University Press, 2002)
  • (ed.) Mystical Theology: The Glosses by Thomas Gallus and the Commentary of Robert Grosseteste on De Mystica Theologia (Peeters, 2003)
  • (ed., with Maurice P. Hogan) The Mystery of Faith: Reflections on the Encyclical "Ecclesia de Eucharistia" (Columba Press, 2005)
  • (ed., with Michael Dunne) The Irish Contribution to Scholastic Thought (Four Courts Press, 2009)
  • (ed., with Declan Lawell and J. Stanley McQuade) Roberti Grosseteste Episcopi Lincolniensis Versio Caelestis Hierarchiae Pseudo-Dionysii Areopagitae (Brepols, 2015)

Further reading

  • Philipp W. Rosemann, "James McEvoy: Scholarly Priest from a Place Apart," in Priest, Scholar, Teacher, Friend: James McEvoy in Memoriam, ed. Mette Lebech (Maynooth: Department of Philosophy, Maynooth University, and Faculty of Philosophy of the Pontifical University at St Patrick's College, 2020), 11–24

References

  1. ISBN 9782503555935
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  2. ISBN 9042913959
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  3. ^ "Tireless, popular teacher and a committed and dignified scholar". The Irish Times. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
  4. doi:10.1163/187254711X555504
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  5. ^ "Rev. Professor James McEvoy". University of Leicester. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
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