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United Church of Canada: A History

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Availability:In StockContributor:Don Schweitzer (Editor)Publish date:2011-11-01Pages:330
Language:EnglishPublisher:Wilfrid Laurier University PressISBN-13:9781554585878ISBN-10:1554585872UPC:9781554585878Book Category:Religion, HistoryBook Subcategory:Christianity, Christian Church, CanadaBook Topic:Protestant, History, Post-Confederation (1867-)Size:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SC05JPXYWA

From its inception in the early 1900s, The United Church of Canada set out to become the national church of Canada. This book recounts and analyzes the history of the church of Canada's largest Protestant denomination and its engagement with issues of social and private morality, evangelistic campaigns, and its response to the restructuring of religion in the 1960s.

A chronological history is followed by chapters on the United Church's worship, theology, understanding of ministry, relationships with the Canadian Jewish community, Israel, and Palestinians, changing mission goals in relation to First Nations peoples, and changing social imaginary.

The result is an original, accessible, and engaging account of The United Church of Canada's pilgrimage that will be useful for students, historians, and general readers. From this account there emerges a complex portrait of the United Church as a distinctly Canadian Protestant church shaped by both its Christian faith and its engagement with the changing society of which it is a part.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Wilfrid Laurier University PressISBN-13:9781554585878ISBN-10:1554585872UPC:9781554585878Book Category:Religion, HistoryBook Subcategory:Christianity, Christian Church, CanadaBook Topic:Protestant, History, Post-Confederation (1867-)Size:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SC05JPXYWA
Schweitzer, Don: -

Don Schweitzer was ordained in The United Church of Canada in 1982 and settled at Turtle River Larger Parish in Saskatchewan Conference northwest of North Battleford, Saskatchewan. In 1987 he left to pursue doctoral studies in theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. In 1991 he was settled along with Leslie Schweitzer (née Goodwin) at Wesley United Church in Prince Albert. He and Leslie have two sons, Simon and Ian. Since 2000 he has taught theology at St. Andrew's College in Saskatoon. Don Schweitzer is a past president of the Canadian Theological Society. He is co-editor with Derek Simon of Intersecting Voices: Critical Theologies in a Land of Diversity (2004) and the author of Contemporary Christologies (2010).

Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press

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Don Schweitzer (Editor)

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