Canadian Baptists And Christian Higher Education

Author : George A. Rawlyk
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Baptist universities and colleges
ISBN : 9780773506770

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Canadian Baptists and Christian Higher Education by George A. Rawlyk Pdf

Since the late eighteenth century, Canadian Baptists have held sharply divergent views on the efficacy of higher education. For some, higher education undermines Evangelical piety; for others, it is a necessity if contemporary Baptists are to contend effectively with modern doubts about religion. The ongoing debate concerning Christian higher education has significantly shaped the contours of the Canadian Baptist experience for almost two centuries and continues to do so even in the 1980s. Canadian Baptists and Christian Higher Education deals with this debate and its effects on three educational institutions: Acadia University, McMaster University, and Brandon College.

Author : Stanley E. Porter,Bruce G. Fawcett
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725282810

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Christian Higher Education in Canada by Stanley E. Porter,Bruce G. Fawcett Pdf

The Toronto 2018 Symposium on Christian Higher Education provided an opportunity for leaders in the Canadian Christian higher education movement to reflect deeply on its development, current reality, and future possibilities. The Canadian Christian higher education scene comprises a wide range of institutions, including Christian universities, Bible colleges, and seminaries and graduate schools. Each type has its own distinctive history and likewise represents both challenges and opportunities. Even though they are intertwined in their common purpose, these higher educational institutions express this purpose in various ways. This volume is a collection of the papers and plenary talks designed to share the content of the symposium with a wider audience. The papers are all written by active scholars and researchers who are connected to the member institutions of Christian Higher Education Canada (CHEC). They not only illustrate the quality of the scholarship at these institutions, but they make their own critical contribution to an ongoing discussion regarding the role and place of Christian higher education within the wider society. This volume is intended to be helpful to students, faculty, staff, board members, and supporters of Canadian and other Christian higher education institutions, as well as interested individuals and scholars.

Author : Gordon L. Heath,Dallas Friesen,Taylor Murray
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532689314

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Baptists in Canada by Gordon L. Heath,Dallas Friesen,Taylor Murray Pdf

Baptists arrived in what would become Canada in the mid-eighteenth century, and from those early arrivals Baptists from a wide variety of backgrounds planted churches in every region of the vast nation. This book traces that history of Baptists in Canada, and provides historical antecedents and theological rationales for their church polity. Written in a generous spirit, it recognizes what Baptists share with other Christian communities and how they differ among themselves on some matters. It places Baptists in Canada in the larger historical and global context, and concludes with commentary on opportunities and challenges ahead.

Author : George A. Rawlyk
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Education
ISBN : 0773506845

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Canadian Baptists and Christian Higher Education by George A. Rawlyk Pdf

Since the late eighteenth century, Canadian Baptists have held sharply divergent views on the efficacy of higher education. For some, higher education undermines Evangelical piety; for others, it is a necessity if contemporary Baptists are to contend effectively with modern doubts about religion. The ongoing debate concerning Christian higher education has significantly shaped the contours of the Canadian Baptist experience for almost two centuries and continues to do so even in the 1980s. Canadian Baptists and Christian Higher Education deals with this debate and its effects on three educational institutions: Acadia University, McMaster University, and Brandon College.

Author : David T. Priestley
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780889206427

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Memory and Hope by David T. Priestley Pdf

How are Baptists distinctive as a Christian denomination? Canadian Baptists, confronted with the question of discovering a common identity from the welter of strands of influence that make up their heritage, may infer several answers from the essays in Memory and Hope. Focussing on Baptist history in central and western Canada, Memory and Hope discusses individuals, institutions and issues that have stirred Baptists in North America for two centuries, including confessionalism and eucharistic theology and fundamentalism vs. modernism. Recurring themes include the Baptist role in education in Canada, the establishment of new churches, overseas missions and social responsibility. Essayists also examine the powerful forces that have influenced Baptist history: immigration, theology and society. Studies of missionary Samuel Stearns Day, fundamentalists Aberhart, Maxwell and Shields and social gospellers Sharpe and Shaw illustrate the diversity of ideas and personalities that have shaped and been shaped by the Baptist Church. Memory and Hope is an important resource for the history of the Baptist Church in Canada. In the issues it raises on the role of churches in the twenty-first century, it will also make a significant contribution to the study of religion in general.

Author : Gordon L. Heath,Paul R. Wilson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781630877842

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Baptists and Public Life in Canada by Gordon L. Heath,Paul R. Wilson Pdf

Public discussion about the relationship between religion and public life in Canada can be heated at times, and scholars have recently focused on the historical study of the many expressions of this relationship. The experience of Canada's smaller Protestant Christian groups, however, has remained largely unexplored. This is particularly true of Canada's Baptists. This volume, the first produced by the Canadian Baptist Historical Society, explores the connections between Baptist faith and Baptist activity in the public domain, and expands the focus of the existing scholarship to include a wide range of Canadian Baptist beliefs, attitudes, perspectives, and actions related to the relationship between Baptist faith and practice and public life.

Author : Harry A. Renfree
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781556351389

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Heritage and Horizon by Harry A. Renfree Pdf

ÒIn this age of hi-tech, impersonal living, our individual identities are in danger of being submerged and our collective past is easily forgotten. History is therefore more important now than it has been in any previous time. It is a corrective that insists we are not defined as a number in a data bank, but as people who have lived in relation to time and circumstances. Our roots lie not in a code but in interactions with other people and in the flow of daily events. ÒCanadian Baptists have eagerly awaited the day that someone would produce a comprehensive, candid and faithful report of who we are and what major events helped shape our identity. This book can only strengthen Canadian Baptist relationships, as it brings to mind our common or similar beginnings. ÒThe author of this history, Dr. Harry A. Renfree, has done us an immense service by giving us a history worth reflecting upon and one which ought to spur us on to glorify God in His church's mission. Well qualified to share his gifts as writer and interpreter, Dr. Renfree is a Canadian Baptist who has given lifelong leadership in the cause of Christ in this country. ÒMy hope is that the readers of this book will come to understand how Canadian Baptists have sought to serve Christ throughout their history and right up to the present day. May God's leading in this historic endeavour cause us to grieve over the errors of the past, to rejoice in the grace of God that has marked our joyful times and to firmly resolve to go forth in this day in our land to honour the Baptist name through true humility and servanthood.--R. C. CoffinGeneral SecretaryÐTreasurerCanadian Baptist Federation

Author : Acadia Divinity College
Publisher : Burlington, Ont., Canada : G.R. Welch
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Baptists
ISBN : WISC:89072946593

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Baptists in Canada by Acadia Divinity College Pdf

Author : Donald D. Schmeltekopf,Dianna M. Vitanza
Publisher : Baylor University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781932792270

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The Future of Baptist Higher Education by Donald D. Schmeltekopf,Dianna M. Vitanza Pdf

The Future of Baptist Higher Education investigates four key issues that inform Baptist efforts at higher education -- the denominational conflict that has afflicted Baptists since the 1980s, the secularization of higher education in America, the dominance of the market-driven tendencies in American higher education today, and the meaning of Christian higher education, but more specifically, the meaning of Baptist higher education. This volume clearly illustrates that the meaning of Baptist and Christian higher education, as with the Christian life itself, is far more complex than any one imperial interpretation.

Author : Taylor Murray,Paul R. Wilson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725260719

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Canadian Baptist Fundamentalism, 1878-1978 by Taylor Murray,Paul R. Wilson Pdf

As the first single-volume work to present a national picture of Baptist engagement with the fundamentalist movement in Canada in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Canadian Baptist Fundamentalism fills an important gap in the historiography. It explores the contributions of well-known fundamentalists, such as T. T. Shields, William “Bible Bill” Aberhart, and J. J. Sidey, while also introducing the reader to several lesser-known figures, including Joshua Denovan, E. J. Stobo, and T. A. Meister. Together, these studies demonstrate the diversity of the fundamentalist movement as it emerged and developed across Canada. By drawing on material from across the country, Canadian Baptist Fundamentalism addresses old themes in new ways—and, in the process, raises a variety of questions and possibilities for new avenues of study.

Author : Roger A. Ward,David P. Gushee
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Education
ISBN : 0881461040

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The Scholarly Vocation and the Baptist Academy by Roger A. Ward,David P. Gushee Pdf

Offers a look at how Baptists have formed and sustained scholarly life in America. This title is based on a group of Baptist scholars interested in critically examining the history, challenges, and possibilities of a scholarly life in the Baptist Academy.

Author : Donald Campbell Masters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Education
ISBN : UCAL:B3240851

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Protestant Church Colleges in Canada by Donald Campbell Masters Pdf

Author : Perry L. Glanzer
Publisher : ACU Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781684268634

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Christian Higher Education by Perry L. Glanzer Pdf

Utilizing a common set of objective institutional markers as a compass, this book guides readers through the terrain of various Christian institutions. The Christian higher education landscape confuses many people. Future students, parents, staff, and even faculty often do not understand the important subtleties and nuances. They need a guide that empirically explores the ways Christian universities operationalize their Christian identity. This book will guide them through the field of Christian higher education and introduce our Operationalizing Christian Identity Guide (OCIG), which identifies the major ways Christian colleges and universities use their Christian identity to make mission, marketing, membership, curriculum, cocurricular, and other decisions (an online spreadsheet of OCIG scores for all the Christian colleges and universities in North America updated in real-time will be available to readers). These markers are identifiable by anyone, no matter their religious or nonreligious background. The OCIG is then employed to provide readers a tour of Protestant, historically Black, Catholic, evangelical/multidenominational, and Eastern Orthodox institutions in the United States and Canada. Parents, students, staff, and faculty will be equipped to engage Christian higher education with a clearer understanding of these key elements and their importance to the mission and purposes of individual institutions and Christian higher education at large.

Author : Sharon M. Bowler
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498237161

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Canadian Baptist Women by Sharon M. Bowler Pdf

The stories of the women have often stayed in the shadows of Canadian Baptist history. The writers of this book have sought out neglected primary source materials to reveal the lives and work of an array of Baptist women in Canada's history. Read here about the Acadian Mary Lore hungrily reading her French Bible and welcoming the message of Baptist missionaries in Lower Canada, Jane Gilmour leaving her home in Britain to minister with her husband in Montreal and the wilds of Upper Canada, a group of remarkable black Baptist women in southern Ontario in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Isabel Crawford from Niagara becoming an advocate for the Kiowa people of Oklahoma, Miriam Ross from Nova Scotia ministering in the Congo, Lois Tupper, pioneer female Baptist theological educator, and, more generally, the work of Baptist women in the Maritimes in the nineteenth century and western Canada in the first half of the twentieth century. Empowered by their Baptist faith, these Canadian women did remarkable things, and their stories deserve to be told and read.

Author : Charles M. Johnston
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780773584211

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McMaster University, Volume 1 by Charles M. Johnston Pdf

The Toronto Years is the first of three volumes relating the history of McMaster University. It is not simply an institutional chronicle, which lists names for the record; it is a dramatic and colourful story that shows how the university grew out of earlier Baptist educational endeavours and describes its eventful first forty years, spent on the Bloor Street Campus in Toronto. McMaster University was established in 1887 as a trust of the Baptist constituency, which helped to ensure vital and ongoing financial support, but which also embroiled the school in the often bitter theological debates sweeping through the churches. In the 1920s, the struggle between modernism and fundamentalism threatened the university’s very existence. Fluctuating enrolment, wartime stresses, and education continually forced confrontations over the question of federation with the provincial university in Toronto. Charles Johnston describes the achievements of a small group of courageous and skilful administrators amid the conflicting currents of educational and religious development in Canada during a period when universities were the targets of traditional criticisms of urban values. This volume will be of interest to anyone concerned with the cultural and intellectual growth of the nation.