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Trends in Canadian Church History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

H. H. Walsh
H. H. Walsh
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Faculty of Divinity, McGill University
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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’.

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Research Article
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Church History , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , September 1954 , pp. 236 - 247
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of Church History 1954

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