Rector Will Be Instituted Tuesday At St. Andrew's

Rector will be instituted Tuesday at St. Andrew's

The Rev. Harvey H. Guthrie Jr. will be instituted as rector of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church on Tuesday by Bishop H. Coleman McGehee Jr. of Detroit. Following the 7:30 p.m. ceremonies in the church at 306 N. Division St., a reception will be held in Henry Lewis Hall.

Rev. Guthrie has been dean of the Episcopal Divinity School since it came into being in 1974 out of a merger of the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge. Mass, and the Philadelphia Divinity School. Before the founding of the new school he was dean of the Episcopal Theological School from 1969 to 1974, and a member of its faculty since 1958. From 1950 to 1958 he was a fellow and instructor at the General Theological Seminary in New York.

He has functioned as professor of Old Testament at the Episcopal Divinity School and has served as a lecturer in that field at Columbia University in New York and at St. George’s College in Jerusalem.
 

In 1977, he occupied the Selwyn Lectureship for the Church in the province of New Zealand.  He is the author of God and History in the Old Testament (Seabury Press, 1960), Isreal's Sacred Songs-(Seabury Press, 1966), Wisdom and Canon (Seabury Western Theological Seminary, 1966), and Theology as Thanksgiving (Seabury Press, 1981).  He has also contributed to several volumes of essays on biblical and theological subjects, and has published articles and reviews in both American and European journals. He has been a visiting scholar at the Georg-August University in Goettingen, Germany, and a research fellow at Yale University.

President of the Association of Theological Schools in the U.S. and Canada in the 1980-1982 biennium, Dean Guthrie has also served on that association’s accrediting commission and executive committee. He has chaired the trustees of the Boston Theological Institute and the council of Deans of the Seminaries of the Episcopal Church. He is a trustee of Wellesley College and a member of the Advisory Committee on Theological Education Management.

Dean Guthrie served for 4 years a vicar of St. Martha’s Church, North White Plains, N. Y. before beginning his career in theological education. He has been assistant at St. Peter’s Church in New York City and Christ Church. Bronxville, N. Y; as interim minister at St. John’s Church in Beverly farms, Mass., and the church of the Redeemer, Chestnut Hill, Mass.

He was elected a deputy to the Episcopal Church’s General Convention from the diocese of Massachusetts in 1973, 1976, 1979, and 1982, and has served on various national and diocesan committees and commissions.

A native of California, where he received his primary and secondary education. Dean Guthrie received his B.A. from Missouri Valley College in 1944, studied at Union Theological Seminary in New York, and received his theological degrees from the General Theological Seminary--S.T.B. in 1948, S.T.M. in 1953, and Th.D. in 1958.

He and Doris M. Peyton were married in 1945 and have four grown children. They are hikers, bicyclists, campers, and cooking enthusiasts.
 

REV. HARVEY H. GUTHRIE JR.