The Regenerators: Social Criticism in Late Victorian English Canada

by Ramsay Cook

Book Overview

A crisis of faith confronted many Canadian Protestants in the late nineteenth century. Their religious beliefs were challenged by the new biological sciences and by historical criticism of the Bible. Personal salvation, for centuries the central concern of Christianity, no longer seemed an adequate focus in an age that gave rise to industrial cities and grave social problems. No single word, Cook claims, catches more correctly the spirit of the late...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802066097
• ISBN13: 9780802066091
• Release Date: November 1985
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"