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What Happened to Christian Canada? (Paperback)
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What Happened to Christian Canada? (Paperback)
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On September 15, 1959, Georges Vanier, Canada's Governor-General
soon-to-be, began his acceptance speech with the following
invocation: "Mr. Prime Minister, my first words are a prayer. May
Almighty God in his infinite wisdom and mercy bless the sacred
mission which has been entrusted to me by Her Majesty the Queen and
help me to fulfill it in all humility. In exchange for his
strength, I offer him my weakness." Fifty-six years later, on
September 27, 2005, Michaelle Jean became Canada's 27th
Governor-General. In her acceptance speech, by contrast, Jean
referred to how Canadian history "speaks powerfully about the
freedom to invent a new world," and made no reference to the deity.
What happened to the Canadian religious conscience, as illustrated
by the speeches of these two luminaries, in the approximately fifty
years between then and now? Why might have church and synagogue
attendance fallen from 67 percent after World War II to less than
20 percent in 2000? In What Happened to Christian Canada?, renowned
church historian Mark Noll investigates these and other related
questions, and makes timely observations about one of the more
prominent sociological shifts in modern North American history.
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