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Genre/Form: | Church history History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John G Stackhouse |
ISBN: | 157383131X 9781573831314 |
OCLC Number: | 650080880 |
Notes: | Reprint. Originally published: Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993. |
Description: | xii, 333 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Introduction -- Part one : The eccentrics : Shields and Aberhart. Introduction -- T.T. Shields : the fundamentalist extreme -- William Aberhart : beyond fundamentalism -- Part two : The mainstream of Canadian evangelicalism in the 1960s. Introduction -- Toronto Bible College : 1894-1968 -- Prairie Bible Institute : 1922-1977 -- Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship : 1929-1970 -- Part three : The mainstream broadens and coalesces : Canadian evangelicalism to the early 1990s. Introduction -- Sermons from science at Expo '67 -- Ontario Bible College and Ontario Theological Seminary -- Prairie Bible Institute -- Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship -- Trinity Western University -- Regent College -- The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada -- Part four. The character of Canadian evangelicalism in the twentieth century. |
Responsibility: | John G. Stackhouse, Jr. |
Abstract:
In the 1980s, evangelical Protestantism emerged as a prominent new force in Canada. While political campaigns and sexual scandals among American evangelicals attracted attention north of the border as well, Canadian evangelicals were quietly establishing a network of individuals and institutions that reflected their distinctive concerns. While the United, Anglican, and Presbyterian churches continued to enjoy "mainline Protestant" status in Canadian culture, more Canadians who actually practiced Christianity in measurable ways could be counted among the evangelicals than among these dominant Protestant denominations. And while most Canadians -- including experts in religious studies -- continued to think of Canadian Christianity in traditional denominational terms, "evangelicalism" was coming into focus as a category essential to understanding this new pattern of allegiance and activity. - Introduction.
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