Wayne Hankey
| Wayne Hankey | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1944 Lower Sackville |
| Awards | Dalhousie University Medal in Philosophy (1965), University of Dallas Aquinas Medal (2015)[1] |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of King's College |
| Academic work | |
| Main interests | Neoplatonism, Islamic and Jewish philosophy in the middle ages, Relations between Hellenistic Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Medieval philosophy, Contemporary French philosophy |
Dr. Wayne Hankey (born 1944), is a Canadian religious philosopher.
He was raised in Lower Sackville Nova Scotia. He studied Classics, philosophy, and theology at University of King's College, Dalhousie University, Trinity College, the University of Toronto, and Oxford University. He has been teaching university classes for more than 40 years, including four years at York University.[2] He spent several years conducting research in Rome and Paris and has held research positions at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, and Boston College. After initiating the Foundation Year Program at King’s, he was the program's first director between 1972 - 1978. He also designed and spearheaded the development and subsequent construction of the university's new library during his time as Librarian of the College (1981–1993). He was responsible for the creation of the Religious Studies Programme at Dalhousie University and for seven years until 2015 chaired the Department of Classics with Religious Studies and Arabic. He is presently a Professor of Classics at Dalhousie University.
He has published four books and edited seven volumes. His first monograph, God in himself : Aquinas' doctrine of God as expounded in the "Summa theologiae" treated the Neoplatonic sources and structure of the doctrine of God in the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas and was published by Oxford University Press in 1987; OUP republished it in 2000 in its series “Oxford Scholarly Classics.” According to WorldCat, the book is held in 552 libraries [3] Since his book entitled One Hundred Years of Neoplatonism in France: A Brief Philosophical History he has published three jointly edited volumes and has in press "Aquinas’ Neoplatonism in the Summa Theologiae on God. A Short Introduction", South Bend, Indiana, St Augustine’s Press. He has published almost one hundred academic articles and reviews, and has produced many journalistic, theological, and devotional publications and addresses. Since 1997, he has been Secretary and Editor of Dionysius.
Bibliography
- God in Himself, Aquinas’ Doctrine of God as Expounded in the Summa Theologiae, Oxford Theological Monographs (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987), 196 pages. (Reprinted in 2000 for the Oxford Scholarly Classics series.
- Pantokrator, the Cosmic Christ: A Theology of Nature. (Charlottetown: St. Peter’s Publications, Inc., 2005).