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Languages : en
Pages : 634
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The Canadian Methodist Review
Author: Pulpit, Press, and Politics
Author: Scott McLarenPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442619783
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
When American Methodist preachers first arrived in Upper Canada in the 1790s, they brought with them more than an alluring religious faith. They also brought saddlebags stuffed with books published by the New York Methodist Book Concern – North America’s first denominational publisher – to sell along their preaching circuits. Pulpit, Press, and Politics traces the expansion of this remarkable transnational market from its earliest days to the mid-nineteenth century, a period of intense religious struggle in Upper Canada marked by fiery revivals, political betrayals, and bitter church schisms. The Methodist Book Concern occupied a central place in all this conflict as it powerfully shaped and subverted the religious and political identities of Canadian Methodists, particularly in the wake of the American Revolution. The Concern bankrolled the bulk of Canadian Methodist preaching and missionary activities, enabled and constrained evangelistic efforts among the colony’s Native groups, and clouded Methodist dealings with the British Wesleyans and other religious competitors north of the border. Even more importantly, as Methodists went on to assume a preeminent place in Upper Canada’s religious, cultural, and educational life, their ongoing reliance on the Methodist Book Concern played a crucial role in opening the way for the lasting acceptance and widespread use of American books and periodicals across the region.
The Canadian Methodist Magazine
Author: The Canadian Historical Review
Author: Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review
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Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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The Methodist Review
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Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 982
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Canadian Methodist Magazine
Author: Lord's Dominion
Author: Neil SemplePublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773565752
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Semple covers virtually every aspect of Canadian Methodism. He examines early nineteenth-century efforts to evangelize pioneer British North America and the revivalistic activities so important to the mid-nineteenth-century years. He documents Methodists' missionary work both overseas and in Canada among aboriginal peoples and immigrants. He analyses the Methodist contribution to Canadian education and the leadership the church provided for the expansion of the role of women in society. He also assesses the spiritual and social dimensions of evangelical religion in the personal lives of Methodists, addressing such social issues as prohibition, prostitution, the importance of the family, and changing attitudes toward children in Methodist doctrine and Canada in general. Semple argues that Methodism evolved into the most Canadian of all the churches, helping to break down the geographic, political, economic, ethnic, and social divisions that confounded national unity. Although the Methodist Church did not achieve the universality it aspired to, he concludes that it succeeded in defining the religious, political, and social agenda for the Protestant component of Canada, providing a powerful legacy of service to humanity and to God.
Quarterly Review of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
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Category : Church and the world
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The Methodist Review
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Category : Church and the world
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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