The Burning bush and a few acres of snow : the Presbyterian contribution to Canadian life and culture /

The Burning bush and a few acres of snow : the Presbyterian contribution to Canadian life and culture / edited by William Klempa. - Ottawa : Carleton University Press, (c)1994. - 1 online resource (viii, 290 pages) - Carleton library series ; #180 .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction. There's more to a Presbyterian than meets the eye -- [part I. Presbyterians and Canadian education. Schooling for Presbyterian leaders : the college years of Pictou Academy, 1816-38 / Presbyterianism, liberal education and the research ideal : Sir Robert Falconer and the University of Toronto, 1907-32 / [part II. Canadian Presbyterians and the state. 'Who pays the piper...' : Canadian Presbyterianism and church-state relations / Canada's Sunday : the Presbyterian contribution, 1875-1950 -- [part III. Presbyterians and Canadian literature and music. Ralph [Connor] and Stephen [Leacock] and Hugh [MacLennan] and Margaret [Laurence] : Canlit's view of Presbyterians / Fleeing the emptiness : Presbyterian guilt in Laurence's Manawaka tetralogy and Davies' Deptford trilogy / Modernity without tears : the mythic world of Ralph Connor / The contribution of Alexander Macmillan to Canadian hymnology / [part IV. Presbyterians and Canadian theology. History of Presbyterian theology in Canada to 1875 / Canadian Presbyterians and Princeton Seminary, 1850-1900 / Recovering the Reformation conception of revelation : the theological contribution of Walter Williamson Bryden to post-union Canadian Presbyterianism / The role of women in the preservation of the Presbyterian Church in Canada : 1921-28 / B. Anne Wood -- Michael Gauvreau -- John S. Moir -- Joseph C. McLelland -- Jack Robinson -- D. Barry Mack -- N. Keith Clifford -- William Klempa -- Richard W. Vaudry -- John A. Vissers -- Roberta Clare.



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