The Burning bush and a few acres of snow
Subtitle: the Presbyterian contribution to Canadian life and culture
By: edited by William Klempa.
Contributors: Klempa, William J.
Series: Carleton library series -- #180; Carleton library -- no. 180.
Publisher: Carleton University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Ottawa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: Presbyterian Church -- Canada -- Influence; Presbyterian Church -- Canada -- History; Canada -- Intellectual life
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. There's more to a Presbyterian than meets the eye; title: [pt.] I. Presbyterians and Canadian education. Schooling for Presbyterian leaders : the college years of Pictou Academy, 1816-38 / B. Anne Wood; title: Presbyterianism, liberal education and the research ideal : Sir Robert Falconer and the University of Toronto, 1907-32 / Michael Gauvreau; title: [pt.] II. Canadian Presbyterians and the state. 'Who pays the piper...' : Canadian Presbyterianism and church-state relations / John S. Moir; title: Canada's Sunday : the Presbyterian contribution, 1875-1950; title: [pt.] III. Presbyterians and Canadian literature and music. Ralph [Connor] and Stephen [Leacock] and Hugh [MacLennan] and Margaret [Laurence] : Canlit's view of Presbyterians / Joseph C. McLelland; title: Fleeing the emptiness : Presbyterian guilt in Laurence's Manawaka tetralogy and Davies' Deptford trilogy / Jack Robinson; title: Modernity without tears : the mythic world of Ralph Connor / D. Barry Mack; title: The contribution of Alexander Macmillan to Canadian hymnology / N. Keith Clifford; title: [pt.] IV. Presbyterians and Canadian theology. History of Presbyterian theology in Canada to 1875 / William Klempa; title: Canadian Presbyterians and Princeton Seminary, 1850-1900 / Richard W. Vaudry; title: Recovering the Reformation conception of revelation : the theological contribution of Walter Williamson Bryden to post-union Canadian Presbyterianism / John A. Vissers; title: The role of women in the preservation of the Presbyterian Church in Canada : 1921-28 / Roberta Clare.