Author Archives: Eamonn P. Gaines

About Eamonn P. Gaines

I am a graduate of UCD, and Maynooth University. I have taught philosophy and latterly, theology for the last twenty years. My teaching career has spanned both universities at Maynooth, the Queen's University Belfast, the Redemptoris Mater, Dundalk, St Malachy's Seminary, Belfast, the Maryvale Institute, Birmingham, the Dominican Studium (Dublin) and the Priory Institute, Tallaght. I have also been a guest lecturer at the University of Klaipeda, Lithuania. I am or have been a member of the Irish Philosophical Society, the Royal Institute of Philosophy, the American Catholic Philosophical Association, the Cáirde Thomáis Naofa, the Bioethics Study Group Ireland, The Guild of Catholic Scholars and the Third Order of St Dominic. I am at present researching and writing on the concept of persona in the Latin Christian intellectual tradition, leading to a PhD from the University of Limerick. Thereafter I hope to embark on an intellectual biography of the Thomist philosopher, social scientist and churchman, Jeremiah Newman (1926–1995).

God’s Latin Plagiarist

In the 19th Century, the Church in Europe sought to rebuild after the depredations of the Napoleonic years. One of the significant figures of that reconstruction was Jacques-Paul Migne (1800-1875) whose cheap and cheerful collections of the Church Fathers of … Continue reading

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Faciendi plures libros nullus est finis (Eccl. 12:12)

Of the making of books there might be no end but of the making of dictionaries there sometimes seems to be no proper beginning. I complained to my distinguished doktormutter that there is no proper Latin dictionary for specialists in … Continue reading

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Some links about Persona

For those who tuned in to my brief guest spot on the Aquinas Institute Ireland lecture, hosted by Fr Conor McDonagh OP, the links which I promised are set out below: New Catholic Encyclopedia on Person in Philosophy and Person … Continue reading

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