Gerald Vann

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Gerald Vann, O.P. (24 August 1906 - 14 July 1963) was a British Roman Catholic theologian and philosopher. He was born in St Mary Cray, Kent. He joined the Dominican Order in 1923 and was ordained a priest in 1929.

Vann obtained a doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Collegio Angelico, the future Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum in Rome in 1931.^[1]

His books include works on just war theory and St. Thomas Aquinas. He died in Newcastle after a long illness.

• On Being Human (1933)
• Morals Makyth Man (1937) (repr. as Morals and Man, 1960)
• Morality and War (1939)^[2]
• Of His Fullness (1939)
• Saint Thomas Aquinas (1940) (repr. as The Aquinas Prescription, 2000)
• The Heart of Man (1944)
• The Divine Pity (1945) (repr. as The Seven Sweet Blessings of Christ, 1997)
• Eve and the Gryphon (1946) (repr. as Heart of Compassion, 1998)
• His Will is our Peace (1947)
• The Pain of Christ and the Sorrow of God (1947)
• Awake in Heaven (1948)
• The Two Trees (1948)
• The Seven Swords (1950) (repr. as At the Foot of the Cross, 1998, and as Mary's Answer for Our Troubled Times, 2001)
• The High Green Hill (1951)
• The Wisdom of Boethius (1950)
• The Water and the Fire (1953)
• Stones or Bread? (1957) (co-author with P. K. Meagher;^[3] repr. as The Temptations of Christ, 1966, and as The Devil and How to Resist Him, 1997)
• The Paradise Tree (1959)
• The Son's Course (1959)
• Blackfriars School, 1659-1959 (1959)
• To Heaven with Diana (1960)
• The Eagle's Word: A Presentation of the Gospel according to St. John (1961)
• The Missal Step by Step (with D. A. Young and P. Quail, illustrator, 1963)
• Moral Dilemmas (1963)

In 1935, Vann wrote an Introduction to the English translation of the book The Burden of Belief by Ida Coudenhove.^[4]