The Guild of Scholars of the Episcopal Church is a society of lay Episcopal academics which meets annually at General Theological Seminary

General Theological Seminary

The General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church is a seminary of the Episcopal Church in the United States and is located in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan in New York....

 in New York in November of each year.

History

The Guild was founded in 1945 and has included such eminent members as Cleanth Brooks

Cleanth Brooks

Cleanth Brooks was an influential American literary critic and professor. He is best known for his contributions to New Criticism in the mid-twentieth century and for revolutionizing the teaching of poetry in American higher education...

, Brooks Otis

Brooks Otis

Brooks Otis was an American scholar of Classical languages and literature. Born in Boston, he graduated from Harvard in 1929, took the M.A. in 1930, and received the Ph.D. in 1935. He was one of the founders of the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome, Italy, in 1965...

, Henry Babcock Veatch

Henry Babcock Veatch

Henry Babcock Veatch, Jr. was a twentieth-century American philosopher.-Life and career:Veatch was born in Evansville, Indiana. He obtained his Ph.D...

, Frederick Pottle, W. H. Auden

W. H. Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden , who published as W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet,The first definition of "Anglo-American" in the OED is: "Of, belonging to, or involving both England and America." See also the definition "English in origin or birth, American by settlement or citizenship" in See also...

, Dell Hymes

Dell Hymes

Dell Hathaway Hymes was a sociolinguist, anthropologist, and folklorist whose work dealt primarily with languages of the Pacific Northwest. He was one of the first to call the fourth subfield of anthropology "linguistic anthropology" instead of "anthropological linguistics"...

, Hyatt Waggoner and Richard W. Bailey

Richard W. Bailey

Richard Weld Bailey was a noted American linguist, scholar of the English language, and the Fred Newton Scott Collegiate Professor of English at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor....

. Norman Pittenger

Norman Pittenger

William Norman Pittenger was an Anglican theologian. He played an important role as promoter of process theology and he became one of the first acknowledged Christian defenders for the open acceptance of homosexual relations among Christians...

 was a past chaplain. Current members include the literary academics John V. Fleming

John V. Fleming

John V. Fleming is an American literary critic and the Louis W. Fairchild, '24 Professor of Literature and Comparative Literature, emeritus, at Princeton University.-Career:...

, Debora Shuger and Charles Forker, the chemical weapons specialist George Parshall

George Parshall

George W. Parshall is a distinguished member of the organometallic chemistry and homogeneous catalysis communities and has played a key role in advising the U.S...

, the religious historians David L. Holmes

David L. Holmes

David L. Holmes is the Walter G. Mason Professor of Religious Studies at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia in the United States.- Biography :...

 and Robert Bruce Mullin, and the psychiatrist Margaret Morgan Lawrence. The chaplain, in perpetuity, of the Guild is the Rev. Canon J. Robert Wright

J. Robert Wright

J. Robert Wright is the St. Mark's in the Bowery Professor of Ecclesiastical History at General Theological Seminary in New York City...

. David Hurd

David Hurd

David Hurd is a composer, concert organist, choral director and educator.He is a Professor of Sacred Music and Director of Chapel Music at the General Theological Seminary, Chelsea, New York City. He is also the Music Director at the Church of the Holy Apostles, also in Chelsea.Dr. Hurd attended...

offers a regular organ recital at every meeting.

External links

• Guild of Scholars of the Episcopal Church website