Mary T. Clark

Sister Mary T. Clark, RSCJ is an American academic and civil rights advocate. She is best known as a scholar of the history of philosophy, and is associated especially with Augustine of Hippo. Much of her career was spent at Manhattanville College, from which she graduated in 1939 and with which her association stretches over three-quarters of a century. She now has the status of an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, and a Chair of Christian Philosophy at the College, from which she retired in 2011, bears her name.^[1] She has remarked that the "gift I've received from my Manhattanville education was the realization that there is no freedom without truth."^[2]

Her books include Augustine, An Aquinas Reader, Augustine: Philosopher of Freedom (with Vernon J. Bourke), Logic: a Practical Approach (with Helen Casey), Augustinian Personalism, Discrimination Today: Guidelines for Civic Action, Augustine of Hippo: Selected Writings, and The Problem of Freedom. She also contributed a chapter on Augustine's De Trinitate to The Cambridge Companion to Augustine^[3][4] and translated the Theological Treatises on the Trinity of Marius Victorinus.^[5]

She was formerly the President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, of the Metaphysical Society of America, and of the Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy.^[6][7] She also served on the Executive Committee of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association. She currently serves as a Visitor of Ralston College.^[8]

She was among the original Editorial Advisors of the scholarly journal Dionysius, to which she contributed a discussion of the relevance of Augustine's theology of the Trinity,^[9] and was in addition a member of the Board of Editorial Consultants of the Personalist Forum.^[10]

During the 1960s she led the Social Action Secretariat of the National Federation of Catholic College Students, which "initiated action, created literature, and hosted events during the civil rights era".^[11][12]

She is a Roman Catholic Nun of the Society of the Sacred Heart, which she entered in 1939.^[13][14]

It is sometimes mistakenly asserted that her association is with Manhattan College rather than Manhattanville College.

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• Manhattanville College
• The Society of the Sacred Heart
• Mary T. Clark on the De Trinitate of Augustine
• Augustine on Justice
• The Synthesis Tradition
• Neoplatonism and Christian Thought
• Personalism Revisited