Burning Bush and A Few Acres of Snow: The Presbyterian Contribution to Canadian Life and Culture 9780773573918

The twelve essays collected here explore the formative influence Presbyterianism has had on Canadian religious heritage

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Burning Bush and A Few Acres of Snow: The Presbyterian Contribution to Canadian Life and Culture
9780773573918

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William Klempa

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1. There's More to a Presbyterian than Meets the Eye
I. Presbyterians and Canadian Education
2. Schooling for Presbyterian Leaders: The College Years of Pictou Academy,1816-38
3. Presbyterianism, Liberal Education and the Research Ideal: Sir Robert Falconer and the University of Toronto, 1907-32
II. Canadian Presbyterians and the State
4. 'Who Pays the Piper.. .': Canadian Presbyterianism and Church-State Relations
5. Canada's Sunday: The Presbyterian Contribution, 1875-1950
III. Presbyterians and Canadian Literature and Music
6. Ralph and Stephen and Hugh and Margaret: Canlit's View of Presbyterians
7. Fleeing the Emptiness: Presbyterian Guilt in Laurence's Manawaka Tetralogy and Davies's Deptford Trilogy
8. Modernity Without Tears: The Mythic World of Ralph Connor
9. The Contribution of Alexander Macmillan to Canadian Hymnody
IV. Presbyterians and Canadian Theology
10. History of Presbyterian Theology in Canada to 1875
11. Canadian Presbyterians and Princeton Seminary, 1850-1900
12. Recovering the Reformation Conception of Revelation: Walter Williamson Bryden and Post-Union Canadian Presbyterianism
13. The Role of Women in the Preservation of the Presbyterian Church in Canada: 1921-28
Contributors
Index of Names

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