I ALONE HAVE ESCAPED TO TELL YOU
This is the name of Ralph McInerny's new autobiography and I can hardly wait to read it. I have been a fan of McInery's for many years and finally met him in September, 2002 at Franciscan University of Steubenville's Catholic Writers' Conference. Both my husband and I were very impressed with him, not only as a writer, but as a person. Here is an excerpt of Dr. Jeff Mirus' review of I Alone Have Escaped to Tell You:
This is the title of the engaging memoir of Notre Dame philosopher Ralph McInerny, who is famous for just about everything, including his deep commitment to the Catholic Faith. The title comes from the book of Job, where various servants report a sequence of utter catastrophes to Job, each concluding with “I alone have escaped to tell you.”
It is a fitting title for McInerny’s autobiography (subtitled “My Life and Pastimes”) because the author really is one of relatively few academics who have survived the intellectual upheavals of the past half-century with both their Faith and reason intact, and so lived to explain clearly and honestly how things went. His concluding chapter is significantly titled “On the Banks of the Mainstream”.
Ralph McInerny is a Renaissance man. In addition to being a distinguished professor at Notre Dame for nearly his entire academic career, he has served as the director of both the Medieval Institute and the Maritain Center there. As a scholar he is known for such works as Thomas Aquinas and Praeambula Fidei: Thomism and the God of the Philosophers. He was the founder of two magazines, Crisis and Catholic Dossier, and of the International Catholic University, in conjunction with EWTN.
But as an author McInerny is known for far more than his first-rate philosophical work. He has written several novels, both serious and humorous. Perhaps the most widely acclaimed is Priest, a best-seller which explores the life of a young priest assigned to teach moral theology just as the Church was hit with post-Vatican II factionalism. McInerny is also the author of the well-known Father Dowling mysteries, both books and short stories, some of which have been made into a television series. He has written many other fictional works and mysteries under various pseudonyms. [Read the entire review.]
This is the title of the engaging memoir of Notre Dame philosopher Ralph McInerny, who is famous for just about everything, including his deep commitment to the Catholic Faith. The title comes from the book of Job, where various servants report a sequence of utter catastrophes to Job, each concluding with “I alone have escaped to tell you.”
It is a fitting title for McInerny’s autobiography (subtitled “My Life and Pastimes”) because the author really is one of relatively few academics who have survived the intellectual upheavals of the past half-century with both their Faith and reason intact, and so lived to explain clearly and honestly how things went. His concluding chapter is significantly titled “On the Banks of the Mainstream”.
Ralph McInerny is a Renaissance man. In addition to being a distinguished professor at Notre Dame for nearly his entire academic career, he has served as the director of both the Medieval Institute and the Maritain Center there. As a scholar he is known for such works as Thomas Aquinas and Praeambula Fidei: Thomism and the God of the Philosophers. He was the founder of two magazines, Crisis and Catholic Dossier, and of the International Catholic University, in conjunction with EWTN.
But as an author McInerny is known for far more than his first-rate philosophical work. He has written several novels, both serious and humorous. Perhaps the most widely acclaimed is Priest, a best-seller which explores the life of a young priest assigned to teach moral theology just as the Church was hit with post-Vatican II factionalism. McInerny is also the author of the well-known Father Dowling mysteries, both books and short stories, some of which have been made into a television series. He has written many other fictional works and mysteries under various pseudonyms. [Read the entire review.]
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