Secularizing the Faith : : Canadian Protestant Clergy and the Crisis of Belief 1850-1940 / / David Marshall.
The intellectual ferment of the Victorian era posed a substantial challenge to religious institutions. In Canada as elsewhere the focus of religious belief, epecially in the Protestant sects, shifted perceptibly away from spiritual concerns. David B. Marshall explores the ways in which the clergy re...
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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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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020] ©1992 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (344 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Secularization and the Writing of Canadian Religious History
- 1. Clergymen and the Problem of Religious Doubt
- 2. The Emergence of Liberal Theology: A New Certainty?
- 3. Salvaging the Bible and the Evangelical Tradition
- 4. The False Promise of Missions
- 5. Stemming the Tide of Secularization, 1890-1914
- 6. Battling with the Great War
- 7. The 1920s: An Era of Drift
- 8. 'Why No Revival?'
- 9. Stumbling towards a Theological Reformulation
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Note on the Sources
- Index