The Regenerators : : Social Criticism in Late Victorian English Canada / / Ramsay Cook.
A crisis of faith confronted many Canadian Protestants in the late nineteenth century. Their religious beliefs were challenged by the new biological sciences and by historical criticism of the Bible. Personal salvation, for centuries the central concern of Christianity, no longer seemed an adequate...
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Cook, Ramsay, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Regenerators : Social Criticism in Late Victorian English Canada / Ramsay Cook. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019] ©1985 1 online resource (290 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Heritage Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Roots of Modernism: Darwinism and the Higher Critics -- 3. The Anxieties of a Moral Interregnum -- 4. Positivism, Secular Thought, and the Religion of Humanity -- 5. Positivism, Secular Thought, and the Religion of Humanity -- 6. Richard Maurice Bucke: Religious Heresiarch and Utopian -- 7. Toward a Christian Political Economy -- 8. ‚A Republic of God, a Christian Republic‘ -- 9. ‚The New City of Friends‘: Evolution, Theosophy, and Socialism -- 10. ‚Was Christ, After All, a Social Reformer?‘ -- 11. The Modernist Pilgrim’s Progress -- 12. The Sacred Becomes the Secular -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star A crisis of faith confronted many Canadian Protestants in the late nineteenth century. Their religious beliefs were challenged by the new biological sciences and by historical criticism of the Bible. Personal salvation, for centuries the central concern of Christianity, no longer seemed an adequate focus in an age that gave rise to industrial cities and grave social problems.No single word, Cook claims, catches more correctly the spirit of the late Victorian reform movement than 'regeneration': a concept originall meaning rebirth and applied to individuals, now increasingly used to describe social salvation.In exploring the nature of social criticism and its complex ties to the religious thinking of the day, Cook analyses the thought of an extraordinary cast of characters who presented a bewildering array of nostrums and beliefs, from evolutionists, rationalists, higher critcis, and free-thinkers, to feminists, spiritualists, theosophists, socialists, communists, single-taxers, adn many more. THere is Goldwin Smith, 'the sceptic who needed God,' spreading gloom and doom from the comfort of the Grange; W.D. LeSueur, the 'positvist in the Post Office'; the heresiarch Dr R.M. Bucke, overdosed on Whitman, with his message of 'cosmis consciousness'; and a free-thinking, high-rolling bee-keeper named Allen Pringle, whose perorations led to 'hot, exciting nights in Napanee.' It is a world of such diverse figures as Phillips Thompson, Floar MacDonald Denison, Agnes Machar, J.W. Bengough, and J.S. Woodsworth, a world that made Mackenzie King.Cook concludes that the path blazed by nineteenth-century religious liberals led not to the Kingdom of God on earth, as many had hoped, but, ironically, to the secular city. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Church and social problems Canada History 19th century. Social gospel. Social reformers Canada History 19th century. Coursebook. HISTORY / Canada / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 9783110490947 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442627314 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442627314 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781442627314.jpg |
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