The bequest is a permanent gift assigning all books and papers to the perpetual care and oversight of the Graduate Theological Foundation, to be housed in the Tower Building, home of the Foundation, in South Bend, Indiana. The collection consists of 60 years of accumulated volumes in all branches of theology -- historical, systematic, and philosophical -- and represents the gathering of a personal library which helped Macquarrie to both launch his career and maintain his international preeminence as a leading theologian.

Access to this collection will be by residential appointment as a Visiting Fellow for short-term research. Macquarrie has for a number of years been a member of the Foundation's faculty, teaching and supervising doctoral studies in his capacity as the Martin Heidegger professor of Philosophical Theology.

"The gift of the library and papers from Canon Macquarrie is a major contribution to our institution’s ongoing involvement in the nurturing of scholarship," said Dr. John Morgan, president of the Foundation. "His favoring the Foundation with such a gift is not taken lightly, and our commitment to maintaining it in perpetuity for present and future generations of theologians and students of theology is unwavering. We are truly appreciative of such a gesture of generosity."

The Graduate Theological Foundation was established in 1962 in the Archdiocese of New York and has maintained its commitment as a graduate degree-granting institution in the field of ministry in Indiana since 1984. Affiliated with both Oxford University and the Centro Pro Unione in Rome, the Foundation is an associate foundation member of the American Council on Education, the Association of American Colleges and Universities, the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education, and the National Business Education Association. 

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