Baptists and public life in Canada
By: edited by Gordon L. Heath and Paul R. Wilson
Contributors: Canadian Baptist Historical Society
Series: McMaster Divinity College Press. McMaster general series -- 2. -- Volume 1 in the Canadian Baptist Historical Society series; General series (McMaster Divinity College. Press) -- v. 2.; General series (McMaster Divinity College. Press) -- v. 1.
Publisher: MacMaster Divinity College Press; Pickwick Publications
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Hamilton, Ont; Eugene, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9781608996810
Subjects: Doctrines; Church and state; Baptists; History
Description: Public discussion about the relationship between religion and public life in Canada can be heated at times, and scholars have recently focused on the historical study of the many expressions of this relationship. The experience of Canada's smaller Protestant Christian groups, however, has remained largely unexplored. This is particularly true of Canada's Baptists. This volume, the first produced by the Canadian Baptist Historical Society, explores the connections between Baptist faith and Baptist activity in the public domain, and expands the focus of the existing scholarship to include a wide range of Canadian Baptist beliefs, attitudes, perspectives, and actions related to the relationship between Baptist faith and practice and public life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 388-392) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Baptist individuals and public life. Jonathan Woolverton : education advocate, 1811-1883 / Sharon M. Bowler; title: Fighting fire with fire : T. T. Shields and his confrontations with Premier Mitchell Hepburn and Prime Minister Mackenzie King, 1934-1948 / Doug Adams; title: The formation of a public intellectual : Wilfred Currier Keirstead, Christian personaland modernity / Daniel C. Goodwin; title: "One here will constant be" : the Christian witness of T.C. "Tommy" Douglas / Sandra Bearsall; title: pt. 2. Baptist responses to conflict. "A very present help in trouble" : the Canadian Baptist's response to the Fenian invasion of 1866 / James Tyler Robertson; title: Traitor, half-breeds, savages, and heroes : Canadian Baptist newspapers and constructions of Riel and the events of 1885 / Gordon L. Heath; title: Caring for their community : the philanthropic and moral reform efforts of Toronto's Baptists, 1834-1918 / Paul R. Wilson; title: "Sheep not of this fold" : case studies of non-Baptist student populations at McMaster University, 1890-1929 / C. Mark Steinacher; title: A missed opportunity : Central-Canadian Baptists and the Forward Movement, 1919-1920 / Donald A. Goertz; title: For whose kingdom? : Central Canadian Baptists, Watson Kirkconnell, and the evangelization of immigrants, 1880-1939 / Robert R. Smale.