The World is Our Parish : : John King Gordon, 1900-1989: An Intellectual Biography / / Keith Fleming.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Fleming, Keith ,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)

One of Canada's most outspoken and respected advocates of internationalism during the early Cold War, John King Gordon had a remarkably eclectic professional life. Keith R. Fleming's biography of Gordon explores the man's many careers, from his start as a Manitoba clergyman in the 1920s to his work as a United Nations field officer in Korea, the Middle East, and the Congo.In "The World Is Our Parish," Fleming traces how Gordon's passion for social reform and humanitarianism led him to become a clergyman, a political activist, a journalist, a professor, and one of Canada's leading advocates of liberal internationalism in the years after World War Two. An exceptional biography of an extraordinary but little-known Canadian, "The World Is Our Parish" uses Gordon's professional and intellectual journey to reveal the confluence of liberal Christianity, social democracy, and internationalism in Canadian politics and thought.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction: "Universe of the spirit" -- 1. "Breaking out of a comfortable cocoon" (1900-1924) -- 2. "I play spectator in an Aristotelian sense" (1924-1931) -- 3. "A fiery apostle of social justice" (1931-1934) -- 4. "Politics is the only road to heaven now" (1935-1938) -- 5. "A bifocal view towards American affairs" (1938-1949) -- 6. "A ringside view of contemporary history in the making" (1950−1961) -- 7. "To get on in the world you accept the beliefs and values of the establishment" (1962-1989) -- Conclusion: "An observer, not an actor" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index