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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, Ont. : Carleton University Press, 1994. - 1 online resource (viii, 290 pages) - Carleton library series ; #180 . - Carleton library ; no. 180. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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Presbyterian Church--History.--Canada
Église presbytérienne--Histoire.--Canada
Presbyterian Church in Canada


Presbyterian Church--Influence.--Canada
Église presbytérienne--Influence.--Canada
RELIGION--Christianity--Presbyterian.
Intellectual life


Canada--Intellectual life.
Canada--Vie intellectuelle.
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