The Reverend Professor Robert Darwin Crouse died in his sleep at his home in Crousetown, Lunenburg, Friday night. He had been very ill for several years but he played the organ for the Liturgy at St Mary’s Crousetown the Sunday before last.
It is a passing so momentous for so many, including all of us in the Department, that I can say nothing more at present than to express my thanks to God as Professor Crouse’s perpetual student for all He did for us through this great scholar, spiritual father, saintly exemplar, and unsurpassable teacher.
A student of James Doull, with him he refounded the Classics Department, giving it the character which it now has and which has made it so exceptionally successful. No student of his ever ceases to hear him and so
to walk in the presence of the Logos.
Dr Wayne J. Hankey
Carnegie Professor and Chairman
Department of Classics with Religious Studies
Dalhousie University and Kings College
What would be the major books and articles written by Dr. Crouse? I checked Amazon and there only seems to be this Brill study that he had edited: http://www.amazon.com/Creation-Ancient-Medieval-Thought-Itellectual/dp/9004156194/
Dr Crouse was one of the hidden giants of Anglicanism in North America. I was introduced to his work a couple years ago by Bishop Burton, and my first thought was: Why haven’t I heard of this man before?
If you haven’t, please do take and read his essays. Many of them can be found online. He was a great font of knowledge, piety, and wisdom, and a model for Anglican scholar-priests everywhere.
Many of Fr. Crouse’s sermons and essays may be found here
http://www.stpeter.org/crouse/
Dr. Crouse’s sermons may also be found online at http://www.lectionarycentral.com
This is a heavy loss, brothers. It will be interesting to see who will take Dr. Crouse’s place in guiding the Atlantic Theological Conferences. Perhaps Wayne Hankey?
“Perhaps Wayne Hankey?”
I believe that Dr. Hankey “poped” the better part of a decade ago.
I studied Christology with Dr. Crouse at Trinity (TSM) and what a treat it was – he really was a wonderful a godly man.