In Amazing Grace sixteen church historians provide a survey of evangelicalism throughout the Anglo-Saxon world. Some articles focus on colourful leaders and thinkers; others draw on economic, political, social, and cultural history as well as theology. In this comparative history the authors show how conversionism, revivalism, activism, and confidence in the authority of Scripture united world evangelicals, while historical and cultural differences set apart each group's expression of faith.

Amazing Grace: Evangelicalism in Australia, Britain, Canada, and the United States

Noll, Mark A.

Rawlyk, George A.

Religion & Spirituality

Baker Pub Group

Rawlyk sees the Baptists of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick as reaching their zenith during the latter half of the nineteenth century. He makes some controversial comments on the differences between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia Baptists of both the present and past century. Ravished by the Spirit does not deal merely with a distnt historical past but raises some fundamental and disconcerting questions about the vulnerability of the Baptist denomination in contemporary Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

Ravished by the Spirit: Religious Revivals, Baptists, and Henry Alline (Hayward Lectures)

McGill-Queen's University Press

Canadian Baptists and Christian Higher Education

In his chapter on Acadia, Barry Moody argues that the university has been surprisingly open to a variety of theologies and pedagogical perspectives, tracing this to the liberality and breadth of vision of Nova Scotia Baptists. His study helps explain the remarkable strength of the Baptist tradition in late nineteenth-century Nova Scotia. J.R.C. Perkin's chapter on one of Acadia's distinguished presidents, Watson Kirkonnell, shows Kirkonnell as representative of this tradition and its strength. G.A. Rawlyk examines some of the underlying forces which significantly affected the development of McMaster University. He suggests that the cutting edge of McMaster's nineteenth century Evangelicalism may have been dulled by the enthusiastic manner in which "consumerism" and "modernity" were appropriated by the Baptist Convention leadership which controlled the university. In his discussion of Brandon College, Walter Ellis argues that Brandon failed as a Baptist institution of higher learning largely because it was out of touch with Western Canadian realities. If it had been a bible college rather than a Manitoba variant of McMaster, Brandon might still be in existence and Conventional Baptists might as a result be a far stronger force in the West. These essays on individual institutions highlight the pressure on denominational universities to emphasize not only Christian spirituality but secular scholarship. They will be of interest to all those who are concerned not only with the fate of Baptist institutions but the entire Christian church in Canada.

Amazing Grace: Evangelicalism in Australia, Britain, Canada, and the United States (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion)

McGill Queens Univ Pr

Relative to evangelicalism elsewhere in the English-speaking world, radical evangelicalism in Canada was defined centrally (often almost exclusively) by the New Birth experience or by similar experiences, such as sanctification. Over time, however, there has been significant change regarding the centre of Canadian evangelicalism. This change, sometimes gradual and sometimes sudden, is of crucial importance in understanding all aspects of evolving Canadian Protestantism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Prominent preachers such as Henry Alline, William Black, David George, Freeborn Garrettson, and Harris Harding as well as rank-and-file evangelists figure in The Canada Fire. Through letters, diaries, and autobiographies the actors and actresses in this unfolding religious drama speak for themselves, and their voices are permeated with vulnerability and honesty. The Canada Fire is not only a book about the distant past; it also throws light on the changing face of Canadian Protestantism in general, and Canadian evangelicalism in particular.

The Canada Fire: Radical Evangelicalism in British North America, 1775-1812

History

World

An impressive list of specialists in the field examine the evangelical impulse in various denominations, from the mainstream Methodists, Presbyterians, Anglicans, and United, through Baptists, Mennonites, and Lutherans, to the more sectish groups, including Holiness, Christian Mission Alliance, and the Pentecostals. Also included are comparisons between Canadian and American, British, and Australian evangelicalism and essays on evangelical networks, leaders and revivals, women, and evangelicalism in the 1990s. Growing out of a conference sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trusts in 1995 at Queen's University, the essays elaborate a variety of important themes in the study of historical and contemporary evangelicalism and weave them together to provide an informative and challenging exploration of aspects of the evangelical experience in Canada. Contributors include Phyllis D. Airhart, Alvyn J. Austin, David W. Bebbington, Edith L. Blumhofer, Robert K. Burkinshaw, Sharon Anne Cook, Nancy Christie, P. Lorraine Coops, Duff Crerar, Michael Gauvreau, Daniel C. Goodwin, Andrew S. Grenville, Bruce L. Guenther, Bryan V. Hillis, D. Bruce Hindmarsh, Mark Hutchinson, William H. Katerberg, Kevin Kee, Ronald A.N. Kydd, Barry Mack, Mark A. Noll, David Plaxton, Darrel R. Reid, John G. Stackhouse, Jr, Marguerite Van Die, Richard W. Vaudry, and Marilyn Färdig Whiteley.

Aspects of the Canadian Evangelical Experience (McGill-Queen’s Studies in the Hist of Re) (Volume 28)

Christian Books & Bibles

Sixteen church historians open a window of comparative history on the story of evangelicals in Canada, the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, France, and the United Kingdom. Amazing Grace shows that churches sharing traditions of conversionism, revivalism, activism, and confidence in the authority of Scripture could still look, act, and express their faith quite individually. Most of the essays originated as papers read before the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals.

Wrapped Up in God

McGill-Queens University Press

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Amazing Grace: Evangelicalism in Australia, Britain, Canada, and the United States

Ravished by the Spirit: Religious Revivals, Baptists, and Henry Alline (Hayward Lectures)

Canadian Baptists and Christian Higher Education

Canadian Baptists and Christian Higher Education

Amazing Grace: Evangelicalism in Australia, Britain, Canada, and the United States (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion)

The Canada Fire: Radical Evangelicalism in British North America, 1775-1812

The Canada Fire: Radical Evangelicalism in British North America, 1775-1812

Aspects of the Canadian Evangelical Experience (McGill-Queen’s Studies in the Hist of Re) (Volume 28)

Amazing Grace: Evangelicalism in Australia, Britain, Canada, and the United States

Wrapped Up in God