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The Burning bush and a few acres of snow : the Presbyterian contribution to Canadian life and culture / edited by William Klempa.

Contributor(s): Klempa, William J
Material type: TextTextSeries: Carleton library: Publisher: Ottawa : Carleton University Press, 1994Description: viii, 290 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0886292395 (pbk.); 9780886292393 (pbk.)Subject(s): Presbyterian Church -- Canada -- Influence | Presbyterian Church -- Canada -- History | Canada -- Intellectual lifeBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction. There's more to a Presbyterian than meets the eye -- 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 -- 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 / Paul Laverdure -- 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 -- 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. There's more to a Presbyterian than meets the eye -- 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 -- 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 / Paul Laverdure -- 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 -- 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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