A Full Orbed Christianity

Author : Nancy Christie,Michael Gauvreau
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1996-03-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780773565944

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Full-Orbed Christianity by Nancy Christie,Michael Gauvreau Pdf

Christie and Gauvreau look at the ways in which reformers expanded the churches' popular base 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 see it not as the garrison of anti-modernity but as the chief harbinger of cultural change before 1940.

Author : Nancy Christie,Michael Gauvreau
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0773522409

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A Full-Orbed Christianity by Nancy Christie,Michael Gauvreau Pdf

Looks at the ways in which reformers expanded the popular base of Protestant churches through mass revivalism, social work and sociology in Canadian universities and church colleges, and incorporation of independent reform organizations into the church-sponsored Social Service Council of Canada. Discusses the role of Protestant clergymen in formulating social legislation, demonstrating the Protestantism was the chief harbinger of cultural change before 1940. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Nancy Christie
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773522718

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Households of Faith by Nancy Christie Pdf

Households of Faith examines a variety of religious traditions with a particular focus on the way in which religious communities define gender identities. The authors explore the boundaries drawn in religious discourse between the private and public, offering a revisionist perspective on the theoretical framework of separate spheres. By analysing gender relations within the matrix of the family, they explore both the conflicts and interdependency of gender roles.

Author : Michael Snape
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317058298

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Secularisation in the Christian World by Michael Snape Pdf

The power of modernity to secularise has been a foundational idea of the western world. Both social science and church history understood that the Christian religion from 1750 was deeply vulnerable to industrial urbanisation and the Enlightenment. But as evidence mounts that countries of the European world experienced secularising forces in different ways at different periods, the timing and causes of de-Christianisation are now widely seen as far from straightforward. Secularisation in the Christian World brings together leading scholars in the social history of religion and the sociology of religion to explore what we know about the decline of organised Christianity in Britain, Europe, the United States, Canada and Australia. The chapters tackle different strands, themes, comparisons and territories to demonstrate the diversity of approach, thinking and evidence that has emerged in the last 30 years of scholarship into the religious past and present. The volume includes both new research and essays of theoretical reflection by the most eminent academics. It highlights historians and sociologists in both agreement and dispute. With contributors from eight countries, the volume also brings together many nations for the first consolidated international consideration of recent themes in de-Christianisation. With church historians and cultural historians, and religious sociologists and sociologists of the godless society, this book provides a state-of-the-art guide to secularisation studies.

Author : David de Bruyn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0999431730

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The Conservative Church by David de Bruyn Pdf

Christianity could die in one generation. The nature of Christianity (and any other religion, for that matter) is that the generation that professes it is responsible to preserve it and propagate it to the next. A failure to do so will mean that, at least as far as living adherents are concerned, Christianity will cease to be. For this reason, all Christians ought to be conservatives. Christians ought to be concerned with conserving all it means to be Christian, so as to pass this on to others. This book encourages church members in general and pastors in particular to consider practical methods to recover a more full-orbed Christianity in the context of a local church.

Author : Nancy Christie,Michael Gauvreau
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442660014

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Christian Churches and Their Peoples, 1840-1965 by Nancy Christie,Michael Gauvreau Pdf

Religious institutions, values, and identities are fundamental to understanding the lived experiences of Canadians in the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century. Christian Churches and Their Peoples, an inter-denominational study, considers how Christian churches influenced the social and cultural development of Canadian society across regional and linguistic lines. By shifting their focus beyond the internal dynamics of institutions, Nancy Christie and Michael Gauvreau address broad social issues such as the ways in which religion is linked to changing mores, the key role of laypeople in shaping churches, and the ways in which First Nations peoples both appropriated and resisted missionary teachings. With an important analysis of popular religious ideas and practices, Christian Churches and Their Peoples demonstrates that the cultural authority and regulatory practices of religious institutions both affirmed and opposed the personal religious values of Canadians, ultimately facilitating their elaboration of personal, ethnic, gender, and national identities.

Author : Keith C. Sewell
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498238762

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The Crisis of Evangelical Christianity by Keith C. Sewell Pdf

In the broad context of Christianity as it developed over two millennia, and with special reference to the last three centuries, this discussion finds that Evangelicalism has repeatedly offered a reduced and distorted understanding of the faith. The evangelical outlook is much less scriptural than evangelicals generally assume. When it comes to appreciating the order of creation, our calling to develop integral Christian thinking and living, the religious significance of culture, and the coming of the kingdom, reductionist Evangelicalism struggles with its only rarely acknowledged deficiencies. As a result, we have all too often ended up with a Christianity shorn of its cosmic scope and wide cultural implications, and restricted to institutional church life and the cultivation of private spiritual experience. The consequences are frequently enervating and corrosive. Without disregarding what is important in the past, evangelicals are here challenged to take the Bible much more seriously, and thereby transcend the limitations of their habitual reductionism. Evangelicals are encouraged to embrace an integral and full-orbed understanding of Christian discipleship that will equip the faithful to address the deep and complex challenges of the twenty-first century.

Author : Wilbur Fisk Crafts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Christian sociology
ISBN : UCAL:$B267728

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Practical Christian Sociology by Wilbur Fisk Crafts Pdf

Author : David De Bruyn
Publisher : Religious Affections Ministries
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0982458274

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The Conservative Church by David De Bruyn Pdf

Christianity could die in one generation. The nature of Christianity (and any other religion, for that matter) is that the generation that professes it is responsible to preserve it and propagate it to the next. A failure to do so will mean that, at least as far as living adherents are concerned, Christianity will cease to be. For this reason, all Christians ought to be conservatives. Christians ought to be concerned with conserving all it means to be Christian, so as to pass this on to others. This book encourages church members in general and pastors in particular to consider practical methods to recover a more full-orbed Christianity in the context of a local church.

Author : Pamela E. Klassen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520270992

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Spirits of Protestantism by Pamela E. Klassen Pdf

“Klassen’s book is much more than a first-rate study of how two churches in Canada positioned themselves within the ostensibly parallel worlds of biomedicine and spiritual healing. It is, at its core, an insightful meditation on the relationship between liberal Protestantism and the project of modernity. A must read not only for students of Christianity, but all those interested in the legacies of secularism and enchantment." —Matthew Engelke, London School of Economics

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1504 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Unitarianism
ISBN : UOM:39015080394177

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Christian Register and Boston Observer... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gary Richard Miedema
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0773528776

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For Canada's Sake by Gary Richard Miedema Pdf

This study uses the Centennial Celebrations of 1967 and Expo 67 to explore how religion informed Canadian nation-building and national identities in the 1960s.

Author : Ryan M. McGraw
Publisher : Reformation Heritage Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781601783059

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What Is a Christian? by Ryan M. McGraw Pdf

What is a Christian? This is a truly vital question because never-ending happiness or everlasting horror hinges upon understanding the correct, biblical answer to it. Yet few questions have provoked so much confusion. Ryan McGraw lays out what it means to be a Christian in terms of what one believes, what one experiences, and what one does—a full-orbed Christianity of head, heart, and hands. If you are investigating what it means to follow Jesus Christ, if you are wrestling with the question of whether you are truly saved, if you desire to grow as a Christian by getting back to the basics, or if you are seeking to help others, here are simple and clear answers from the Holy Scriptures.

Author : Eric W. Sager
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780228005964

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Inequality in Canada by Eric W. Sager Pdf

In Inequality in Canada Eric Sager considers one of the defining – but hardest to define – ideas of our era and traces its different meanings and contexts across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Sager shows how the idea of inequality arose in the long evolution in Britain and the United States from classical economics to the emerging welfare economics of the twentieth century. Within this transatlantic frame, inequality took a distinct form in Canada: different iterations of the idea appear in Protestant critiques of wealth, labour movements, farmer-progressive politics, the social gospel, social Catholicism in Quebec, English-Canadian political economy, and political and intellectual justifications of the social security state. A tradition of idealist thought persisted in the twentieth century, sustaining the idea of inequality despite deep silences among Canadian economists. Sager argues that inequality goes beyond the distribution of income and wealth: it is the idea that there are wide gaps between rich and poor, that the gaps are both an economic problem and a social injustice, and that when inequality appears, it is as a problem that can be either eliminated or reduced. It is precisely because inequality appears in different contexts, and because it changes, Sager reasons, that we can begin to perceive the contours and cleavages of inequality in our time. In our century, a political solution to inequality may rest on the recovery of an ethical ideal and egalitarian politics that have long preoccupied the history of Canadian thought.

Author : John Monro Gibson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Christianity
ISBN : UCD:31175014174646

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Christianity According to Christ by John Monro Gibson Pdf