The United Church of Canada : a history / Don Schweitzer, editor.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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. The result is an original, accessible, and engaging account of The United Church of Canada's pilgrimage that will be useful for students, historians, and general readers. From this account there emerges a complex portrait of the United Church as a distinctly Canadian Protestant church shaped by both its Christian faith and its engagement with the changing society of which it is a part.

Introduction -- List of Abbreviations -- Genealogical Chart of Church Union in Canada -- Part One Chronology. Chapter One Unity among Many: The Formation of The United Church of Canada, 1899- 1930 / C.T. McIntire -- Chapter Two The 1930s / Eleanor J. Stebner -- Chapter Three The United Church and the Second World War / Ian McKay Manson -- Chapter Four A Golden Age: The United Church of Canada, 1946- 1960 / John H. Young -- Chapter Five "And Whether Pigs Have Wings" : The United Church in the 1960s / Sandra Beardsall -- Chapter Six The 1970s: Voices from the Margins/ Joan Wyatt -- Chapter Seven 1980s: What Does It Mean to Be The United Church of Canada? Emergent Voices, Self-Critique, and Dissent / Tracy J. Trothen -- Chapter Eight 1990- 2003: The Church into the New Millennium / Ross Bartlett.

Part Two Thematic Issues. Chapter Nine Worship on the Way: The Dialectic of United Church Worship William / S. Kervin -- Chapter Ten A Look at Ministry: Diversity and Ambiguity / Charlotte Caron -- Chapter Eleven United Church Mission Goals and First Nations Peoples / Alf Dumont and Roger Hutchinson -- Chapter Twelve Jews and Palestinians: An Unresolved Conflict in the United Church Mind / Alan Davies -- Chapter Thirteen Awash in Theology: Issues in Theology in The United Church of Canada / Michael Bourgeois -- Chapter Fourteen The Changing Social Imaginary of The United Church of Canada / Don Schweitzer.

English.

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