After Evangelicalism
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After Evangelicalism

The Sixties and the United Church of Canada

  1. 360 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

After Evangelicalism

The Sixties and the United Church of Canada

About this book

At a time when Canadians were arguing about the merits of a new flag, the birth-control pill, and the growing hippie counterculture, the leaders of Canada's largest Protestant church were occupied with turning much of English-Canadian religious culture on its head. In After Evangelicalism, Kevin Flatt reveals how the United Church of Canada abruptly reinvented its public image by cutting the remaining ties to its evangelical past.

Flatt argues that although United Church leaders had already abandoned evangelical beliefs three decades earlier, it was only in the 1960s that rapid cultural shifts prompted the sudden dismantling of the church's evangelical programs and identity. Delving deep into the United Church's archives, Flatt uncovers behind-the-scenes developments that led to revolutionary and controversial changes in the church's evangelistic campaigns, educational programs, moral stances, and theological image. Not only did these changes evict evangelicalism from the United Church, but they helped trigger the denomination's ongoing numerical decline and decisively changed Canada's religious landscape.

Challenging readers to see the Canadian religious crisis of the 1960s as involving more than just Quebec's Quiet Revolution, After Evangelicalism unveils the transformation of one of Canada's most prominent social institutions.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. McGill-Queen’s Studies in the History of Religion
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. 1 - Setting a Pattern, 1930–1940
  7. 2 - Calm before the Storm, 1940–1963
  8. 3 - Creating the New Curriculum, 1952–1964
  9. 4 - The New Curriculum Controversy
  10. 5 - A New Gospel: Theological Upheaval and Redefinition, 1959–1968
  11. 6 - The “New Evangelism” and the “New Morality,” 1962–1971
  12. 7 - Aftermath: The United Church and the Legacy of the Sixties
  13. Conclusion
  14. Appendix: The Decision-Making Structure of the United Church
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index