The Regenerators : : Social Criticism in Late Victorian English Canada /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Cook, Ramsay,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©1985
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (290 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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