Robert Edward Brennan

Not to be confused with the social activist, also named Robert Brennan

Robert Edward Brennan OP STM (29 July 1897 – 17 June 1975), was an American Roman Catholic priest, psychologist, theologian and professor.

Biography

Robert E. Brennan was born at Lima, Allen County, Ohio, the son of Edward and Bridget O’Brien Brennan.

In 1918, he joined the Dominican Order and continued his studies at the Dominican seminary in Springfield, Kentucky, and at the Catholic University of America. The same year, 1925, that he was ordained to the priesthood he obtained the doctorate in philosophy from Catholic University. After ordination Father Brennan was sent to the Chinese missions where he became prefect of studies in the Dominican schools.

In 1931, he was assigned a position as professor of psychology at Providence College, where he establish the Thomistic Institute in 1937. Brennan was also attached to the Institute of Psychology at the University of Montreal (1942–1946).

In 1958, he translated Chenu's The Scope of the Summa into English.

He died in Somerset, Perry County, Ohio.

Works

• A Theory of Abnormal Cognitive Processes, According to the Principles of St. Thomas Aquinas (1925)
• General Psychology: An Interpretation of the Science of Mind Based on Thomas Aquinas (1937)
• Thomistic Psychology: An Philosophic Analysis of the Nature of Man (1941)
• History of Psychology: From the Standpoint of a Thomist (1945)
• The Image of His Maker: A Study of the Nature of Man (1948)
• Irish Diary (1962)
• The Seven Horns of the Lamb: A Study of the Gifts Based on Saint Thomas Aquinas (1966)

Selected publications

• "The Thomistic Concept of Imagination," The New Scholasticism, Vol. XV, No. 2 (1941)
• "The Autograph of the Angelic Doctor," The Homiletic and Pastoral Review , Vol. XL, No. 7 (1941)
• "The Thomist Revival," The American Ecclesiastical Review, Vol. CIV, No. 1 (1941)
• "Modern Psychology and Man," The Thomist, Vol. III, No. 1 (1941)
• "The Thomistic Concept of Culture," The Thomist, Vol. V (1943)
• "My Psychology Credo," The Catholic School Journal, Vol. XLVIII, No. 7 (1948)

Collaborations

• "Troubadour of Truth." In: Essays in Thomism. New York: Sheed & Ward (1942).

References

• Kugelmann, Robert (2011). Psychology and Catholicism: Contested Boundaries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

External links

• Works by Robert E. Brennan at Open Library
• Works by Robert E. Brennan at Hathi Trust