Nationality United States Name Ralph McInerny | Role Author Education Laval University | |
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Born Ralph Matthew McInerny
February 24, 1929
Minneapolis, Minnesota ( 1929-02-24 ) Occupation religious scholar, author Died January 29, 2010, Mishawaka, Indiana, United States Books Ethica Thomistica: The Mora, Praeambula fidei, Dante and the Blessed, A first glance at St Thom, I Alone Have Escaped t Similar People Charles De Koninck, Jacques Maritain, Thomas S Hibbs, G K Chesterton, John Mortimer | ||
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Ralph Matthew McInerny (February 24, 1929 – January 29, 2010) was a prolific American author and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. McInerny's most popular mystery book series featured Father Dowling. This character was the basis for the Father Dowling Mysteries television show, which ran from 1987 to 1991.
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He sometimes wrote under the pseudonyms of Harry Austin, Matthew FitzRalph, Ernan Mackey, Edward Mackin and Monica Quill.
McInerny was a Roman Catholic. He died of esophageal cancer on January 29, 2010.
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Academic career
McInerny wrote his PhD dissertation entitled The Existential Dialectic of Soren Kierkegaard under Professor Charles De Koninck at Laval University (Quebec).
He was Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Jacques Maritain Center, and Michael P. Grace Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He taught there from 1955 until his retirement in 2009.
McInerny was also a Fulbright Scholar, receiving educational funds from the Fulbright Commission Belgium. He served as President of the Metaphysical Society of America in 1993.
McInerny's brother Dennis, also a philosophy professor, believes that his brother's greatest legacy is not to be found in his novels, but in his adherence to scholastic and Thomistic beliefs.