Lord's Dominion: The History of Canadian Methodism 9780773565753
The Lord's Dominion describes the development of mainstream Canadian Methodism, from its earliest days to its incor
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English Pages 544 [576] Year 1996
Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 The Origins of Methodism
2 The Early Mission to British North America
3 Methodism as a Personal Spiritual and Moral Movement
4 Upper Canadian Wesleyan and Episcopal Methodism, 1820–54
5 Divergent Visions: The Wesleyans in the Atlantic Region and the Smaller Connexions before 1855
6 Mass Evangelism before 1860
7 The Methodists and Native Peoples before 1860
8 The Elaboration of a National Methodist Church
9 The Transformation of the Social Means of Grace
10 Methodist Education
11 Methodist Missions in Canada, 1854–1925
12 Methodist Overseas Missions, 1873–1925
13 Methodism and the Creation of a Moral Order
14 Young People and the Methodist Moral Order
15 Methodism in the Early Twentieth Century
16 Methodism and the Formation of the United Church of Canada
Epilogue: Methodism – the Continuing Legacy
Notes
Index
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