The view from Murney Tower : Salem Bland, the late Victorian controversies, and the search for a new Christianity. book 1. Salem Bland: a Canadian odyssey /
Allen, Richard, 1929-2019.
The view from Murney Tower : Salem Bland, the late Victorian controversies, and the search for a new Christianity. book 1. Salem Bland: a Canadian odyssey / Salem Bland : a Canadian odyssey Richard Allen. - Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2008 - 1 online resource (xxxvii, 524 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Newness of Life -- 2. Family Pilgrimage -- 3. Heresy! -- 4. World, the Flesh, and the Young Preacher -- 5. View from Murney Tower -- 6. Protestant Passions and the Politics of Prophecy -- 7. Signs of the Times -- 8. Religiousness of Reason -- 9. How the Walls Fall Away! -- 10. Consciences of Many Are Still Asleep -- 11. Large and Animating Hope -- 12. Nation and Empire -- 13. Capital Prospects -- 14. Word Made Flesh -- Epilogue: Afloat on Such a Sea.
Salem Goldworth Bland (1859-1950) was among the most significant religious leaders in Canadian history. A Methodist and, later, United Church minister, Bland's long career and widespread influence made him a leading figure in the popularizing of liberal theology, social reform, and the Social Gospel movement. He was also a man who struggled with the polarities of evangelical faith and worldly culture, and who sought a unifying world-view in the mentoring of Sir J. William Dawson in the sciences, George Monro Grant in public affairs, and John Watson in philosophy.The View from the Murney Tower is a two-volume biography of Salem Bland by Richard Allen, author of The Social Passion: Religion and Reform in Canada, 1914-28. This first volume begins with Bland's upbringing in the home of an educated industrialist turned preacher. It goes on to explore his emergence as a liberating mind and eloquent speaker prepared to support new currents of scientific and social thought, as well as to discuss their implications for Christian faith and life. Allen concludes this first volume with Bland's departure from central Canada for the west in 1903, by which time he had become a somewhat controversial figure amongst conservative evangelicals throughout the country.More than just biography, however, The View from the Murney Tower is also an examination of progressive religion in late-Victorian Canada, a time in which Darwinism and other Biblical, social, and intellectual controversies were profoundly affecting the growth of a young nation.
9781442689589 (electronic bk.) 1442689587 (electronic bk.) (bk. 1 ; print)
22573/ctt56mk0 JSTOR
Bland, Salem Goldworth, 1859-1950.
Bland, Salem Goldworth, 1859-1950.
United Church of Canada--Clergy--Biography.
United Church of Canada.
1800-1899
Social gospel.
Church and social problems.
Évangile social.
Église et problèmes sociaux.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Religious.
RELIGION--Christianity--Methodist.
HISTORY--Post-Confederation (1867- )--Canada
Church and social problems.
Clergy.
Social gospel.
Canada--Church history--19th century.
Canada--Histoire religieuse--19e siècle.
Canada.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Church history.
BX9883 B49 / A45 2008eb
287.9/2092
The view from Murney Tower : Salem Bland, the late Victorian controversies, and the search for a new Christianity. book 1. Salem Bland: a Canadian odyssey / Salem Bland : a Canadian odyssey Richard Allen. - Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2008 - 1 online resource (xxxvii, 524 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Newness of Life -- 2. Family Pilgrimage -- 3. Heresy! -- 4. World, the Flesh, and the Young Preacher -- 5. View from Murney Tower -- 6. Protestant Passions and the Politics of Prophecy -- 7. Signs of the Times -- 8. Religiousness of Reason -- 9. How the Walls Fall Away! -- 10. Consciences of Many Are Still Asleep -- 11. Large and Animating Hope -- 12. Nation and Empire -- 13. Capital Prospects -- 14. Word Made Flesh -- Epilogue: Afloat on Such a Sea.
Salem Goldworth Bland (1859-1950) was among the most significant religious leaders in Canadian history. A Methodist and, later, United Church minister, Bland's long career and widespread influence made him a leading figure in the popularizing of liberal theology, social reform, and the Social Gospel movement. He was also a man who struggled with the polarities of evangelical faith and worldly culture, and who sought a unifying world-view in the mentoring of Sir J. William Dawson in the sciences, George Monro Grant in public affairs, and John Watson in philosophy.The View from the Murney Tower is a two-volume biography of Salem Bland by Richard Allen, author of The Social Passion: Religion and Reform in Canada, 1914-28. This first volume begins with Bland's upbringing in the home of an educated industrialist turned preacher. It goes on to explore his emergence as a liberating mind and eloquent speaker prepared to support new currents of scientific and social thought, as well as to discuss their implications for Christian faith and life. Allen concludes this first volume with Bland's departure from central Canada for the west in 1903, by which time he had become a somewhat controversial figure amongst conservative evangelicals throughout the country.More than just biography, however, The View from the Murney Tower is also an examination of progressive religion in late-Victorian Canada, a time in which Darwinism and other Biblical, social, and intellectual controversies were profoundly affecting the growth of a young nation.
9781442689589 (electronic bk.) 1442689587 (electronic bk.) (bk. 1 ; print)
22573/ctt56mk0 JSTOR
Bland, Salem Goldworth, 1859-1950.
Bland, Salem Goldworth, 1859-1950.
United Church of Canada--Clergy--Biography.
United Church of Canada.
1800-1899
Social gospel.
Church and social problems.
Évangile social.
Église et problèmes sociaux.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Religious.
RELIGION--Christianity--Methodist.
HISTORY--Post-Confederation (1867- )--Canada
Church and social problems.
Clergy.
Social gospel.
Canada--Church history--19th century.
Canada--Histoire religieuse--19e siècle.
Canada.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Church history.
BX9883 B49 / A45 2008eb
287.9/2092