Title The evangelical century : college and creed in English Canada from the Great Revival to the Great Depression / Michael Gauvreau

Published Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1991

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Description 1 online resource (x, 398 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits Series McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion, 1181-7445 McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. 1181-7445 Contents Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Between Awakening and Enlightenment: The Evangelical Colleges, 1820�1860 -- 2 Authority and History: Evangelicalism and the Problem of the Past -- 3 Prophecy, Protestantism, and the Millennium: The Preaching of History -- 4 The Evolutionary Encounter: Every Thought is to be Brought into Captivity to the Obedience of Christ -- 5 History, Prophecy, and the Kingdom of God: Toward a Theology of Reform -- 6 The Paradox of History: College and Creed in Crisis 7 The Passing of the Evangelical Creed: War, the College, and the Problem of Religious CertaintyConclusion: The Evangelical Mind and the Persistence of the Eighteenth Century -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y Summary 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 of the churches. By accommodating those aspects of modern thought most compatible with evangelicalism and filtering out those more threatening, clergymen-professors such as Samuel Nelles, Nathanael Burwash, George Monro Grant, and William Caven were able to find creative ways to move their churches toward social reform in the late nineteenth century. The evangelical synthesis lost its cultural supremacy only in the twentieth century, when the complexity of theological discussion in the church colleges broke down the close links between professor and preacher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-391) and index Notes Print version record Subject Presbyterian Church -- Canada -- Doctrines -- History Methodist Church -- Canada -- Doctrines -- History Theology -- Study and teaching -- Canada -- Presbyterian Church -- History Theology -- Study and teaching -- Canada -- Methodist Church -- History RELIGION -- Christianity -- Protestant. RELIGION -- History. Intellectual life Methodist Church -- Doctrines Presbyterian Church -- Doctrines Theology -- Study and teaching -- Methodist Church Evangelikale Bewegung SUBJECT Canada -- Intellectual life -- 19th century Canada -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87001732 Subject Canada Kanada Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780773562554 0773562559

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