Eugene Rathbone Fairweather was a Canadian Anglican theologian.
10 Facts About ER Fairweather
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ER Fairweather was born in Ottawa, Ontario in 1920, and grew up in Montreal.
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ER Fairweather was educated at McGill University, the University of Toronto, Trinity College.
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In 1947, ER 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.
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ER Fairweather continued to teach there until his retirement in 1986.
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ER Fairweather served for many years as an assistant priest at the Church of St Mary Magdalene.
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ER Fairweather served at various times as the President of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, the Canadian Theological Society, and the American Theological Society.
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ER Fairweather was the Editor of the Canadian Journal of Theology from 1960 to 1970.
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ER Fairweather was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, as well as an honorary doctor of McGill University in Montreal, the University of King's College in Halifax, and Huron College in London, Ontario.
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ER Fairweather was in addition an official Anglican observer at the Second Vatican Council as well as a participant in the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission, in connexion with which the Cross of St Augustine was conferred upon him in 1981 by the Archbishop of Canterbury.