Chapter 5 The Sociocultural Transformation of the North American Baptist Conference

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Table of Contents iii
3. Illustrations v
4. Contributors vi
5. Abbreviations vii
6. Strands of One Cord 1
7. Building a Future on the Past 11
8. Ideas and Their Expressions
9. The Recovery of Ontario's Baptist Tradition 25
10. Tradition and Traditionalism in Baptist Life and Thought: The Case of the Lord's Supper 39
11. Movements and Their Structures
12. The Effect of Baptist "Home Mission" among Alberta's German Immigrants 55
13. The Sociocultural Transformation of the North American Baptist Conference 69
14. Church and Community: Old School Baptists in Ontario, 1818-1901 83
15. The Establishment of the Canadian Convention of Southern Baptists 99
16. Fragmented Baptists: The Poverty and Potential of Baptist Life in Western Canada 111
17. “Baptist Unity in the Midst of Evangelical Diversity:” Canadian Baptists and the 19th-century Evangelical Debate over Christian Unity 123
18. Baptist Unity 139
19. People and Their Contributions
20. Samuel Stearns Day: First Canadian-Born Baptist Missionary 155
21. Three Faces of Baptist Fundamentalism in Canada: Aberhart, Maxwell, and Shields 171
22. The Irony of Fundamentalism: T. T. Shields and the Person of Christ 183
23. D. R. Sharpe and A. A. Shaw: Progressive Social Christianity in Western Canada 197
24. Index 209
25. Series Published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion/ Corporation Canadienne des Sciences Religieuses 212