Rethinking Church, State, and Modernity
Rethinking Church, State, and Modernity

Author: David Lyon

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780802082138

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The contributors consider how Canada's religious experience is distinctive in the modern world, somewhere between the largely secularized Europe and the relatively religious United States.

That Was The Church That Was
That Was The Church That Was

Author: Andrew Brown

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-07-28

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1472921658

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The Church of England still seemed an essential part of Englishness, and even of the British state, when Mrs Thatcher was elected in 1979. The decades which followed saw a seismic shift in the foundations of the C of E, leading to the loss of more than half its members and much of its influence. In England today 'religion' has become a toxic brand, and Anglicanism something done by other people. How did this happen? Is there any way back? This 'relentlessly honest' and surprisingly entertaining book tells the dramatic and contentious story of the disappearance of the Church of England from the centre of public life. The authors – religious correspondent Andrew Brown and academic Linda Woodhead – watched this closely, one from the inside and one from the outside. That Was the Church, That Was shows what happened and explains why.

Churches and Social Order in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Canada
Churches and Social Order in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Canada

Author: Michael Gauvreau

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 0773576002

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By examinng education, charity, community discipline, the relationship between clergy and congregations, and working-class religion, the contributors shift the field of religious history into the realm of the socio-cultural. This novel perspective reveals that the Christian churches remained dynamic and popular in English and French Canada, as well as among immigrants, well into the twentieth century.

Pentecostal Preaching and Ministry in Multicultural and Post-Christian Canada
Pentecostal Preaching and Ministry in Multicultural and Post-Christian Canada

Author: Steven M. Studebaker

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2019-11-07

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 1532655657

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Over the past forty years, Canada has become an increasingly secular, multicultural, and religiously plural society. Indeed, the church in Canada, and Pentecostals in particular, face a challenging context for responding to the call to bear witness to Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit. Like the disciples on the day of Pentecost, however, we need the Holy Spirit to come upon us and liberate us from our post-Christian pessimism. We need the Holy Spirit to enable us to proclaim the gospel to the nations, people that are no longer at the ends of the earth, but making their home in Canada. This book engages this new context, and considers and proposes ways that pentecostal Christians and churches can respond to the challenges of the increasingly post-Christian, multicultural, secular, and religiously plural context of Canadian society.