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The Robert Crouse Memorial Lecture
The Robert Crouse Memorial Lecture was founded in 2016 in honour of the Rev’d Dr. Robert Darwin Crouse of blessed memory, scholar, priest, and organist, whose dies natalis is 15 January, 2011.
Portrait of Father Crouse in the Dalhousie Classics Library by Andra Striowski
Through his renowned sermons, great learning, and gentle humility, Fr. Crouse educated and inspired a whole generation of priests, bishops, and academics, who are now serving in dioceses and universities throughout Canada, the United States, and Europe. An organist and harpsichordist, in the early 1970s Dr. Crouse established the current choir at King's whose execution of both polyphony and plainchant continues to enhance and shape the poetic liturgy of the King's Chapel. His writings and his love for the medieval Italian poet, Dante, continue to powerfully shape the personal and intellectual formation of students at the University of King's College and its Chapel.
In his address at King’s Encaenia in 2007, Fr Crouse spoke of “recollection” as the “fundamental task of education”: “The past is past, no doubt; yet, paradoxically, the past is also present and becomes more contemporary in our recollection of it. Indeed, it is that presence of the past which constitutes the basis of our very recognition of the present, and establishes the horizon of our expectation.”
This Year's Lecturer: The Most Rev'd Mark MacDonald
The Most Rev. Mark MacDonald became the Anglican Church of Canada’s first National Indigenous Anglican Bishop in 2007, after serving as bishop of the U.S. Episcopal Diocese of Alaska for 10 years. In 2019 Bishop MacDonald was elevated to Archbishop. He holds a B.A. in religious studies and psychology from the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota, an M.A. in divinity from Wycliffe College, and did post-graduate work at Luther-Northwestern Theological Seminary in Minneapolis. He has had a long and varied ministry, holding positions in Mississauga, Ontario, Duluth, Minnesota, Tomah, Wisconsin, Mauston, Wisconsin, Portland, Oregon, and the southeast regional mission of the Diocese of Navajoland. Immediately prior to his ordination to the episcopate, Archbishop MacDonald was canon missioner for training in the Diocese of Minnesota and vicar of St. Antipas’ Church, Redby, Minnesota, and St. John-in-the-Wilderness Church, Red Lake, Red Lake Nation, Minnesota. Since 2013 Archbishop MadDonald has been the World Council of Churches (WCC) President for North America, and, in that capacity, was recently (pre COVID) a guest of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I. Archbishop MacDonald has authored and co-authored numerous works and is co-editor of The Chant of Life: Inculturation and the People of the Land (Liturgical Studies IV).
(Adapted from Archbishop Mark MacDonald’s biographical sketch from the Anglican Church of Canada website.)
Last Year's Lecture: 'The Necessity of Platonism for Christian Theology' by the Very Rev'd Dr Andrew Louth
Last year's lecture continues to be available for viewing at https://www.kingschapel.ca/videos-and-audio
Fr Louth's lecture ought soon to be available in print in Selected Papers of Andrew Louth, Volume 1, Studies in Theology, ed. John Behr and Lewis Ayres (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).