Robert Cummings Neville (born May 1, 1939 in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.) is an American systematic philosopher and theologian, author of numerous books and papers, and for much of his career was Dean of the Boston University School of Theology. J. Harley Chapman and Nancy Frankenberry, editors of a festchrift—a collection of critical essays written in Neville's honor—entitled Interpreting Neville, consider him to be “one of the most significant philosophers and theologians of our time".” Neville was Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and has taught at Yale, Fordham, and the State University of New York Purchase. He currently (April, 2011) holds three full professorships at Boston University: in philosophy, religion, and theology. He was granted a Doctorate honoris causa by the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Far Eastern Studies in 1996.
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