Hugo Meynell taught in the departments of Philosophy and Theology at Leeds University from 1963, and in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Calgary from 1981. He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1993, and retired in 2001. He has published books on ethics, aesthetics, epistemology and metaphysics,philosophy of religion, Christian apologetics, modern Protestant thought, the theology of Karl Barth, the philosophy and theology of Bernard Lonergan, postmodernism, the operas of Handel, and abuses in the contemporary university.