Memory and Hope: Strands of Canadian Baptist History

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Memory and Hope

Strands of Canadian Baptist History

Edited by: David T. Priestley

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2006

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How are Baptists distinctive as a Christian denomination? Canadian Baptists, confronted with the question of discovering a common identity from the welter of strands of influence that make up their heritage, may infer several answers from the essays in Memory and Hope.

Focussing on Baptist history in central and western Canada, Memory and Hope discusses individuals, institutions and issues that have stirred Baptists in North America for two centuries, including confessionalism and eucharistic theology and fundamentalism vs. modernism. Recurring themes include the Baptist role in education in Canada, the establishment of new churches, overseas missions and social responsibility.

Essayists also examine the powerful forces that have influenced Baptist history: immigration, theology and society. Studies of missionary Samuel Stearns Day, fundamentalists Aberhart, Maxwell and Shields and social gospellers Sharpe and Shaw illustrate the diversity of ideas and personalities that have shaped and been shaped by the Baptist Church.

Memory and Hope is an important resource for the history of the Baptist Church in Canada. In the issues it raises on the role of churches in the twenty-first century, it will also make a significant contribution to the study of religion in general.

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Contributor: David T. Priestley David Priestley has taught Church History and Theology at the Edmonton Baptist Seminary since 1982. Currently, he is the secretary of the Heritage Commission of the Baptist World Alliance. His essays on Baptist history and thought have been published in a variety of journals and collections.

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``[T]he real significance of the collection is to be found in the light it sheds on some largely unexplored areas and little-understood strands....The collection's other area of strength is a more familiar theme: the impact of fundamentalism on the Baptist community of Canada.''

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Front Matter
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Table of Contents
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Illustrations
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Contributors
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Abbreviations
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Strands of One Cord
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David T. Priestley

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Building a Future on the Past
11
Jarold K. Zeman

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Ideas and Their Expressions
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The Recovery of Ontario's Baptist Tradition
25
William Gillespie

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Tradition and Traditionalism in Baptist Life and Thought: The Case of the Lord's Supper
39
Barry D. Morrison

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Movements and Their Structures
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The Effect of Baptist "Home Mission" among Alberta's German Immigrants
55
David T. Priestley

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The Sociocultural Transformation of the North American Baptist Conference
69
Ernest K. Pasiciel

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Church and Community: Old School Baptists in Ontario, 1818-1901
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Paul R. Wilson

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The Establishment of the Canadian Convention of Southern Baptists
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G. Richard Blackaby

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Fragmented Baptists: The Poverty and Potential of Baptist Life in Western Canada
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Walter E. Ellis

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“Baptist Unity in the Midst of Evangelical Diversity:” Canadian Baptists and the 19th-century Evangelical Debate over Christian Unity
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Philip G. A. Griffin-Allwood

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Baptist Unity
139
Harry A. Renfree

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People and Their Contributions
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Samuel Stearns Day: First Canadian-Born Baptist Missionary
155
Judith Colwell

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Three Faces of Baptist Fundamentalism in Canada: Aberhart, Maxwell, and Shields
171
David R. Elliott

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The Irony of Fundamentalism: T. T. Shields and the Person of Christ
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Mark Parent

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D. R. Sharpe and A. A. Shaw: Progressive Social Christianity in Western Canada
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J. Brian Scott

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Index
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https://doi.org/10.51644/9780889206427

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Memory and Hope

Overview

About this book

Author / Editor information

Reviews

Topics

Table of contents

Front Matter

Table of Contents

Illustrations

Contributors

Abbreviations

Strands of One Cord

Building a Future on the Past

The Recovery of Ontario's Baptist Tradition

Tradition and Traditionalism in Baptist Life and Thought: The Case of the Lord's Supper

The Effect of Baptist "Home Mission" among Alberta's German Immigrants

The Sociocultural Transformation of the North American Baptist Conference

Church and Community: Old School Baptists in Ontario, 1818-1901

The Establishment of the Canadian Convention of Southern Baptists

Fragmented Baptists: The Poverty and Potential of Baptist Life in Western Canada

“Baptist Unity in the Midst of Evangelical Diversity:” Canadian Baptists and the 19th-century Evangelical Debate over Christian Unity

Baptist Unity

Samuel Stearns Day: First Canadian-Born Baptist Missionary

Three Faces of Baptist Fundamentalism in Canada: Aberhart, Maxwell, and Shields

The Irony of Fundamentalism: T. T. Shields and the Person of Christ

D. R. Sharpe and A. A. Shaw: Progressive Social Christianity in Western Canada

Index

Series Published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion/ Corporation Canadienne des Sciences Religieuses

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