Joseph Owens
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Joseph Owens, CSsR (April 17, 1908 in New Brunswick, Canada - October 30, 2005) was a Roman Catholic priest and theologian who wrote a number of books. He taught for a number of years at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies at the University of Toronto. His main areas of investigation involved Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, the field of Christian metaphysics and, in later years, the Rastafari movement. In 1974 he wrote a book called Dread, The Rastafarians of Jamaica, having spent time working and living with Rastafarians in Kingston, Jamaica, discussing theological and philosophical issues with them in order to write a book examining their beliefs within a religious, biblical context. In the book he attempts to allow the Rasta to explain their doctrines in their own words, while examining all the key doctrines in different chapters. The book is a rich and unique source of material about Rastafarian beliefs in the developmental stage of the religion.
[edit] Published works
- Dread, The Rastafarians of Jamaica (1974)
- An interpretation of existence
- An elementary Christian metaphysics
- Cognition
- St Thomas on the existence of God
- The Doctrine of Being in the Aristotelian Metaphysics
