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A full-orbed Christianity : the protestant churches and social welfare in Canada, 1900-1940 / Nancy Christie and Michael Gauvreau

Author
Christie, Nancy, 1958-
Published
Montreal, Qué : McGill-Queen's University Press, [1996]
Copyright Date
©1996
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiv, 367 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Gauvreau, Michael, 1956-
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Language Note
English.
Contents
The "urgency of evangelism" -- Reviving the religion of the vernacular -- To "complete the circle of scientific theology" -- A "uniting social aim": the protestant churches and social work in equipoise -- The protestant churches, the social survey, and "rural planning" -- The social service council of Canada: "a clearing-house" for the modern state -- The united church and the "revival of personal religion."
Summary
"Nancy Christie and Michael Gauvreau look at the ways in which reformers expanded the popular base of Protestant churches through mass revivalism, established social work and sociology in Canadian universities and church colleges, and aggressively sought to take a leadership role in social reform by incorporating independent reform organizations into the church-sponsored Social Service Council of Canada. They also explore the instrumental role of Protestant clergymen in formulating social legislation and transforming the scope and responsibilities of the modern state." "The enormous influence of the Protestant churches before World War II can no longer be ignored, nor can the view that the churches were accomplices in their own secularization be justified. A Full-Orbed Christianity calls on historians to rethink the role of Protestantism in Canadian life and to recognize that it was not a garrison of anti-modernity but the chief harbinger of cultural change before 1940"--Jacket
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9780773565944 (electronic bk.)
0773565949 (electronic bk.)
0773513973
9780773513976
0773522409
9780773522404
1282853872
9781282853874
9786612853876
6612853875
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-357) and index.
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