Cover of The United Church of Canada: A History

Book 2011

The United Church of Canada: A History

Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Language
English
Published
2011
  • History
  • RELIGION
  • Christianity
  • Methodist
  • United Church of Canada
  • Histoire
  • Église unie du Canada
  • Church history

"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."--pub. desc.