Fairweather, Eugene Rathbone

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    • Eugene Rathbone Fairweather (2 November 1920 – 6 April 2002) was a Canadian Anglican theologian.
    • Fairweather was born in Ottawa, Ontario in 1920, and grew up in Montreal. He was educated at McGill University (BA 1941), the University of Toronto (MA 1943), Trinity College (Toronto) (BD 1944). While at the University of Toronto, Fairweather was ordained a deacon and assistant curate; while at Trinity College, he was further ordained a priest.
    • In 1947, Fairweather went to New York City to attend the Union Theological Seminary, where he obtained his ThD in 1949, and where he undertook doctoral studies under the supervision of Paul Tillich and Reinhold Niebuhr. During his time in New York he served as an assistant priest at the Cathedral of St John the Divine.
    • Upon the completion of his doctorate in 1949 he returned to Trinity College in Toronto to teach, and in 1964 became the Keble Professor of Divinity. He continued to teach there until his retirement in 1986. He served for many years as an assistant priest at the Church of St Mary Magdalene.
    • He had a strong focus on certain major theological thinkers in the tradition of the Western Church such as Augustine, Anselm, and Aquinas, but at the same time exhibited a lively interest in (and wrote about) many important figures in the history of Canadian Anglicanism, such as John Strachan, John Medley, Tully Kingdon, and Harold Hamilton.
  • Second great grandson to United Empire Loyalist listed in Loyalist Directory: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=2686
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