Title: The Lord's dominion :
Authors: Semple, Neil,
Date: 1996
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press,
Physical description: x, 565 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: B
Abstract: "In this first comprehensive history of Canadian Methodism, Neil Semple covers every aspect of Canadian Methodism. He examines early nineteenth-century efforts to evangelize British North America and the revivalistic activities so important in the mid-nineteenth-century. He documents Methodists' missionary work, both overseas and in Canada among aboriginal peoples and immigrants. He analyses the Methodist contribution to Canadian education and the leadership the church provided for the expansion of the role of women in society. He also assesses the spiritual and social dimensions of evangelical religion in the personal lives of Methodists, addressing such social issues as prohibition, prostitution, the importance of the family, and changing attitudes toward children in Methodist doctrine and in Canada as a whole."--Jacket.
Contents: 1. The Origins of Methodism -- 2. The Early Mission to British North America -- 3. Methodism as a Personal Spiritual and Moral Movement -- 4. Upper Canadian Wesleyan and Episcopal Methodism, 1820-54 -- 5. Divergent Visions: The Wesleyans in the Atlantic Region and the Smaller Connexions before 1855 -- 6. Mass Evangelism before 1860 -- 7. The Methodists and Native Peoples before 1860 -- 8. The Elaboration of a National Methodist Church -- 9. The Transformation of the Social Means of Grace -- 10. Methodist Education -- 11. Methodist Missions in Canada, 1854-1925 -- 12. Methodist Overseas Missions, 1873-1925 -- 13. Methodism and the Creation of a Moral Order -- 14. Young People and the Methodist Moral Order -- 15. Methodism in the Early Twentieth Century -- 16. Methodism and the Formation of the United Church of Canada -- Epilogue: Methodism -- the Continuing Legacy.
Subject headings (LCSH): Canada--Church history.; Methodism.; Methodist Church of Canada--History.; Methodist Church--Canada--History.