The Evangelical Century: College and Creed in English Canada from the Great Revival to the Great Depression (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion, #5) (McGill-Queen's Studies in the Hist of Re)

by Michael Gauvreau

0 ratings • 0 reviews • 0 shelved
Book cover for The Evangelical Century

Bookhype may earn a small commission from qualifying purchases. Full disclosure.

Gauvreau explores the persistence and development of the evangelical creed as the intellectual expression of Protestant religion which largely defined English-Canadian culture in the Victorian period. This popular theology, which linked Methodist and Presbyterian church colleges to the world of popular preaching, was based on the Bible not only as the foundation of personal piety but as a sacred record of human history: past, present, and future. Gauvreau shows that the evangelical creed proved flexible when faced with the challenges of Darwinian evolution, higher criticism, and other new intellectual currents, and that it remained central to the intellectual life...Read more
  • ISBN10 0773562559
  • ISBN13 9780773562554
  • Publish Date 14 May 2014 (first published 1 January 1991)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint McGill-Queen's University Press
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 417
  • Language English