A crisis of faith confronted many Canadian Protestants in the late nineteenth century. With their religious beliefs challenged by the new biological sciences and historical criticism of the Bible, they turned from personal salvation to the dire social problems of the industrial age. The Regenerators explores the nature of social criticism in this era and its complex ties to the religious thinking of the day, showing how the path blazed by nineteenth-century religious liberals led t to the Kingdom of God on earth, but, ironically, to the secular city. The winner of the Goverr General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction when it was first published in 1985, The Regenerators became an instant classic for its fascinating portraits of evolutionists, rationalists, spiritualists, socialists, and free thinkers before the turn of the century. This new edition features an introduction by historian and biographer Donald Wright.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
ISBN-10
1442629193
ISBN-13
9781442629196
eBay Product ID (ePID)
220701072
Product Key Features
Author
Ramsay Cook
Format
Trade Paperback (US), Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History: Specific Subjects
Type
Textbook
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Toronto
Introduction by
Donald A. Wright
Content Note
10
Author Biography
Ramsay Cook is a professor emeritus in the Department of History at York University and the former general editor of The Dictionary of Canadian Biography.Donald Wright is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of New Brunswick