Title: A full-orbed Christianity
First published: 1996
Description: Nancy Christie and Michael Gauvreau look at the ways in which reformers expanded the popular base of Protestant churches through mass revivalism, established social work and sociology in Canadian universities and church colleges, and aggressively sought to take a leadership role in social reform by incorporating independent reform organizations into the church-sponsored Social Service Council of Canada.

They also explore the instrumental role of Protestant clergymen in formulating social legislation and transforming the scope and responsibilities of the modern state.

The enormous influence of the Protestant churches before World War II can no longer be ignored, nor can the view that the churches were accomplices in their own secularization be justified. A Full-Orbed Christianity calls on historians to rethink the role of Protestantism in Canadian life and to recognize that it was not a garrison of anti-modernity but the chief harbinger of cultural change before 1940.
Subjects: History, Social conditions, Christian sociology, Protestant churches, Church and social problems, Conditions sociales, Protestantismus, Sociale hervormingen, Sociologie religieuse, Églises protestantes, Église et problèmes sociaux, Histoire, Protestantse kerken, Soziale Situation, Geschichte 1900-1949, Christianisme, Public welfare, canada, Canada, social conditions, Church history
Places: Canada
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: HN39.C2 C48 1996