2021 Robert Crouse Memorial Lecture | DR. ANDREW LOUTH “The Necessity of Platonism for Christian Theology” | This is a recorded lecture, courtesy King’s College, Cambridge.

The question of the Platonic foundations of Christian theology was a central theme of the scholarship of Father Crouse. For him, the wisdom of the Greeks was not superseded by Christian revelation, but built upon and brought to its fulfillment. Building on his recent work on the writings of Hans Urs von Balthasar, Dr. Louth will explore this theme in honor of Father Crouse, he says, “hoping this will be a fitting tribute to one I much admire.”