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Thomas Finan: Collected Writings

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ISBN: 9781782183600
AuthorTwomey, Vincent
Pub Date30/06/2019
BindingPaperback
Pages400
CountryIRL
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Publisher: Columba Books
Quick overview Originally from Enniscrone in Co. Sligo, Canon Thomas Finan was a priest of the Diocese of Kilalla for 55 years and the former Professor of Ancient Classics in St Patrick s College, Maynooth. He died in 2012 and this book is a selection of the vast collection of his writings, both academic and occasional, chosen and edited by distinguished author and theologian, Fr Vincent Twomey.
€38.00

Thomas Finan was a Christian humanist and in all his writings, be they strictly scholarly or just occasional essays or talks, he acknowledges the Christian indebtedness to the richness of Greco-Roman civilization - above all Plato and Aristotle. Thomas Finan's writing is an original and unique voice in the Irish cultural landscape. It is to be hoped that the publication of his collected writings will make him known to a new generation that never had the opportunity to sit at his feet.

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Thomas Finan was a Christian humanist and in all his writings, be they strictly scholarly or just occasional essays or talks, he acknowledges the Christian indebtedness to the richness of Greco-Roman civilization - above all Plato and Aristotle. Thomas Finan's writing is an original and unique voice in the Irish cultural landscape. It is to be hoped that the publication of his collected writings will make him known to a new generation that never had the opportunity to sit at his feet.

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