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The Lord's Dominion describes the development of mainstream Canadian Methodism, from its earliest days to its incorporation into the United Church of Canada in 1925. Neil Semple looks at the ways in which the church evolved to take its part in the crusade to Christianize the world and meet the complex needs of Canadian Protestants, especially in the face of the challenges of the twentieth century.
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In 1850, Samuel Nelles, a well-educated Methodist minister, was selected to resuscitate the debt-ridden and declining Victoria University. As principal, and later as president and chancellor, he fought against shortsighted government educational policies while making the school into one of the premier universities in Canada. A true academic, Nelles believed in the importance of testing assumed laws, dogmas, and creeds. However his pursuit of intellectual inquiry was always guided by a rational faith in God, as well as the expectation of the future greatness and goodness of humanity. Faithful Intellect expands the reader's understanding of many of the key intellectual, religious, and political concerns of nineteenth-century English Canada while providing an essential contribution to the study of Canada's system of higher education.
Volume 1: Theory, instruments and techniques. - Volume 2: Interpretation and applications.
"The world has held it's breath at the height of the Cold War in August of 1968 while the soviets crossed into Czechoslovakia with tanks, troops and helicopter gunships to brutally put an end to what the communist superpower of the time saw as a threat to its hard-line doctrine. The so-called "Prague-Spring," which by August was gaining in momentum, was a liberal movement led by the newly appointed Communist leader of Czechoslovakia, Alexander Dubcek. At the same time the people of Czechoslovakia were beginning to see a glimmer of reform to a more democratic society, Tim Ryerson was also seeing his own personal freedom taking shape. He was about to graduate from the University of Wisconsin w...