Trends in Canadian Church History

A dual culture and geographical barriers which foster regional development have made writing Canadian history a difficult task. One historian regards it as ‘an act of faith, the substance of things hoped for.’ All the problems which the secular historian faces as he tries to organize his material in...

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Main Author: Walsh, H. H. (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge University Press [1954]
In: Church history
Year: 1954, Volume: 23, Issue: 3, Pages: 236-247
IxTheo Classification:KBQ North America
Online Access: Volltext (doi)
Parallel Edition:Electronic
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Summary:A dual culture and geographical barriers which foster regional development have made writing Canadian history a difficult task. One historian regards it as ‘an act of faith, the substance of things hoped for.’ All the problems which the secular historian faces as he tries to organize his material into a connected story are intensified in the field of Canadian church history, and up to the present no one has ventured to do more than to trace ‘certain general movements of religion in Canadian sociological development’.
ISSN:0009-6407
Contains:Enthalten in: Church history
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2307/3161312