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Most accounts of Canada and the First World War either ignore or
merely mention in passing the churches' experience. Canadian
Churches and the First World War addresses this surprising neglect,
exploring the marked relationship between Canada's 'Great War' and
Canadian churches in intricate detail. The authors of this volume
provide a detailed summary of various Christian traditions and the
war, both synthesising and furthering previous research. In
addition to examining the experience of Roman Catholics (English
and French speaking), Anglicans, Presbyterians, Methodists,
Baptists, Lutherans, Mennonites, and Quakers, there are chapters on
precedents formed during the South African War, the work of
military chaplains, and the roles of church women on the home
front. Reprinted in the centenary year of the conflict's outbreak,
Canadian Churches and the First World War acts as a sobering
reminder of the devastating impact the Great War had on Canada -
and the rest of the world - in the early twentieth century. It will
inspire those with a keen interest in theological, military and
women's history, along with academics and students whose areas of
research cover the monumental events of 1914-18. "This article
gives an exquisite insight into the stance of the Canadian churches
during the First World War." - Martin Grechat, Theologische
Literatur Zeitung 141. Jahrgang, Heft 4, April 2016
While Baptists through the years have been certain that "war is
hell", they have not always been able to agree on how to respond to
it. This book traces much of this troubled relationship from the
days of Baptist origins with close ties to pacifist Anabaptists to
the responses of Baptists in America to the Vietnam War. Essays
also include discussions of the English Baptist Andrew Fuller's
response to the threat of Napoleon, how Baptists in America dealt
with the War of 1812, the support of Canadian Baptists for
Britain's war in Sudan and Abyssinia in the 1880s, the decisive
effect of the First World War on Canada's T.T. Shields, the
response of Australian Baptists to the Second World War, and how
Russian Baptists dealt with the Cold War. These chapters provide
important analyses of Baptist reactions to various manifestations
of one of society's most intractable problems.
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Baptists in Canada (Hardcover)
Gordon L. Heath, Dallas Friesen, Taylor Murray
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The central focus of this book is the role that the British,
Australian, Canadian, South African, and New Zealand (BACSANZ)
Baptist press played in the formation of national, imperial and
denominational identity during the South African War (often called
the Boer War). BACSANZ Baptist imperialism was a phenomenon that
transcended regional identities which provided a global community
and identity for nascent, often isolated, Baptist communities in
the colonies. Baptist evangelical purpose was also inextricably
fused to popular imperialism. Nevertheless, BACSANZ Baptist
imperialism was contextualized and shaped by domestic factors, so
much so that imperialism was a particular form of nationalism in
both the metropole and peripheries.
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