An outstanding scholar, teacher and preacher, the Rev’d Dr. Robert Darwin Crouse has inspired and shaped generations of students in the love of learning.

He has spoken and written extensively and consistently over five decades on patristic thought, notably Augustine and Boethius, and medieval theology, especially Dante and Aquinas, in both academic and pastoral settings. Deeply rooted in the Anglican traditions of devotion and learning, he was the first non-Roman Catholic theologian to be appointed to teach at the Pontifical Patristic Institute Augustinianum in Rome. Along with his academic and pastoral commitments he was an avid musician and gardener. His family home in rural Nova Scotia was a place of quiet contemplation and generous hospitality. Educated at King’s Collegiate School in Windsor, Nova Scotia, the University of King’s College and Dalhousie University in Halifax, NS, Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Trinity College, University of Toronto, Ontario, his life as a teacher, preacher, and priest was centered at King’s College and the Department of Classics at Dalhousie. He was, above all else, a contemplative who sought the integration and harmony of all things human and divine; yet one, who like St. Bernard in Dante’s Paradiso, “freely undertook the task of teaching.”