The United Church of Canada : a history /
Schweitzer, Don,1958-
[Waterloo, Ont.] : Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
c2012.
"From its inception in the early 1900s, The United Church of Canada set out to become the national church of Canada. This book recounts and analyzes the history of the church of Canada's largest Protestant denomination and its engagement with issues of social and private morality, evangelistic campaigns, and its response to the restructuring of religion in the 1960s.
A chronological history is followed by chapters on the United Church's worship, theology, understanding of ministry, relationships with the Canadian Jewish community, Israel, and Palestinians, changing mission goals in relation to First Nations peoples, and changing social imaginary."--pub. desc.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"From its inception in the early 1900s, The United Church of Canada set out to become the national church of Canada. This book recounts and analyzes the history of the church of Canada's largest Protestant denomination and its engagement with issues of social and private morality, evangelistic campaigns, and its response to the restructuring of religion in the 1960s.
A chronological history is followed by chapters on the United Church's worship, theology, understanding of ministry, relationships with the Canadian Jewish community, Israel, and Palestinians, changing mission goals in relation to First Nations peoples, and changing social imaginary."--pub. desc.
Part I. Chronology -- ch. 1. Unity among many : the formation of the United Church of Canada, 1899-1930 / C.T. McIntire -- ch. 2. The 1930s / Eleanor J. Stebner -- ch. 3. The United Church and the Second World War / Ian McKay Manson -- ch. 4. Golden age : the United Church of Canada, 1946-1960 / John H. Young -- ch. 5. "And whether pigs have wings" : the United Church in the 1960s / Sandra Beardsall -- ch. 6. The 1970s : voices from the margins / Joan Wyatt -- ch. 7. The 1980s : what does it mean to be the United Church of Canada? emergent voices, self-critique, and dissent / Tracy J. Trothen -- ch. 8. 1990-2003 : the church into the new millennium / Ross Bartlett -- Part II. thematic issues -- ch. 9. Worship on the way : the dialectic of United Church worship / William S. Kervin -- ch.10. Look at ministry : diversity and ambiguity / Charlotte Caron -- ch. 11. United Church mission goals and First Nations peoples / Alf Dumont and Roger Hutchinson -- ch. 12. Jews and Palestinians : an unresolved conflict in the United Church mind / Alan Davies -- ch. 13. Awash in theology : issues in theology in the United Church of Canada / Michael Bourgeois -- ch. 14. Changing social imaginary of the United Church of Canada / Don Schweitzer.
United Church of Canada
Église unie du Canada
Issued also in electronic formats.