R. E. Houser
Rollen Edward Houser | |
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| Spouse | Mary Catherine Sommers |
| Children | 4 |
| Institutions | University of St. Thomas |
| Thesis | Thomas Aquinas on Transcendental Unity: The Scholastics and Aristotelian Predecessors (1981) |
| Academic advisors | Edward A. Synan[1] |
Rollen Edward Houser is a Thomistic philosopher and professor emeritus at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas.[2]
Biography
[edit]Raised in Texas, Hauser earned a liberal arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1968.[3] He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.[4] After graduation, he served in the US military until 1970, including a deployment to Vietnam.[3] In 1970, Hauser entered the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies at the University of Toronto, earning an M.A. in 1973, a licentiate in 1976, and a Ph.D. in 1981.[3]
Houser taught at Niagara University from 1976 to 1987 before taking a post at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas.[3] He retired in 2018, and in 2019 he was awarded the Aquinas Medal from the American Catholic Philosophical Association.[2][3] In view of the award, Archbishop J. Michael Miller said, "Dr. Ed Houser has made an outstanding contribution to scholarship on St Thomas."[2]
Hauser is married to Mary Catherine Sommers, also a faculty member at the University of St. Thomas.[2] They have four children.[2]
Bibliography
[edit]- The Cardinal Virtues: Aquinas, Albert, Philip the Chancellor (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2004)
- Logic as a Liberal Art: An Introduction to Rhetoric and Reasoning (The Catholic University of America Press, 2020)
References
[edit]- ^ Houser, R. E., ed. (1999). Medieval Masters: Essays in Memory of Msgr. E.A. Synan. University of Notre Dame Press. ISBN 9780268042141.
- ^ a b c d e "UST Professor R.E. Houser Receives Prestigious Aquinas Medal". Houston, TX: University of St. Thomas. 13 November 2019. Retrieved 14 June 2022.
- ^ a b c d e De Haan, Daniel D. (2019). "Rollen Edward Houser ACPA Aquinas Medal 2019". Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. 93: 19–22. doi:10.5840/acpaproc201993125. S2CID 239346814.
- ^ "About Dr. R. E. Houser". The Cardinal Newman Society. Retrieved 14 June 2022.