The Free Church in Victorian Canada, 1844-1861Drawing on a wide range of church records, pamphlets, private papers, and periodicals, Richard Vaudry has written an authoritative study of the formation and development of the Free Church in mid-Victorian Canada. He traces the institutional development of the denomination, its intellectual life, and its attitudes to contemporary political and social questions and describes, another subjects, missionary activity, theological education, worship, and the denomination's union with the United Presbyterian Synod in 1861. This important work depicts a progressive church where men such as George Brown, Isaac Buchanan, and John Redpath could all find a home. The author argues that undergirding the life of the Free Church was an evangelical-Calvinist world view which determined the shape and direction of its activities. His book illuminates an important facet of the religious and intellectual relationship between Scotland and Canada, and should be of interest to students and scholars of Canadian and Church history. |
Contents
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Chapter 2 A Colonial Disruption | 14 |
Chapter 3 Consolidation and Growth | 38 |
Chapter 4 The Free Church Mind | 48 |
Chapter 5 Transforming the Nation | 63 |
Chapter 6 An Educated Ministry | 78 |
Chapter 7 Elders and People | 86 |
Chapter 8 Financing the Enterprise | 95 |
Table 1 Synod of the Presbyterian Church of Canada in Connection with the Church of Scotland | 132 |
Table 2 Free Church in Canada 18441861 | 134 |
Appendix I The Original Protest of 1844 | 137 |
Appendix II Formula to be Signed by Ministers Elders Deacons and Probationers | 140 |
Appendix III Basis of Union between the Presbyterian Church of Canada and the United Presbyterian Church in Canada | 143 |
Notes | 145 |
Bibliography | 166 |
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