Taking its title from the religious sect examined, Children of Peace is a history of one of the most significant and least-studied religious sects in English-speaking Canada. John McIntyre paints a colourful picture of a group of individuals who tried to provide a model for a ne…
The Lord's Dominion describes the development of mainstream Canadian Methodism, from its earliest days to its incorporation into the United Church of Canada in 1925. Neil Semple looks at the ways in which the church evolved to take its part in the crusade to Christianize the wor…
Wright examines these churches' historical connections with the outside world and their newly cultivated interest in international politics. He argues that the clerical and missionary élite's vision of "a new internationalism" was burdened by essentially "Victorian" ideas of the…
Following the classic form of a summa, each chapter begins with a question and offers answers in the context of the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church. Eternity and Eternal Life, the third volume in the series, which deals with hope, was published in 1993; the second volume,…
The Theology of the Oral Torah demonstrates the cogency and inner rationality of the classical statement of Judaism in the Oral Torah, bringing a theological assessment to bear on the whole of rabbinic literature. Jacob Neusner shows how the proposition that God is One and all-p…
The texture of life in pre-Confederation settlements has been traced chiefly through the published diaries of women in Upper Canada. The Diary of a Country Clergyman, a welcome complement to these narratives, introduces a male perspective on rural life in Lower Canada.
Donald Wiebe critically examines the pervasive assumption that theology is a form of religious thought that is both compatible with and supportive of religious faith. The irony, he argues, is that theology is in fact detrimental to religion and the religious way of life.
Arguing that the religious values of a particular culture can account for differences in the role of intellectual elites, André Bélanger compares the very distinct traditions of French Catholicism and Anglo-Saxon Protestantism to demonstrate the strong relationship between the C…
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Should Religion Be Evicted from the Public Square? -- 2 Are Our "Values Conversations" Sufficiently Open and Free? The University as a Test Case -- 3 Is the Concept of Human Dignity Useful, Useless, or Dangerou…
A cutting-edge feminist study of borders and transnational ethics in Canadian literature since the turn of the twenty-first century.
A call for solidarity and renewal in the arts and the academy
