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From its inception in the early 1900s, The United Church of Canada set out to become the national church of Canada. This book recounts and analyzes the history of the church of Canada’s largest Protestant denomination and its engagement with issues of social and private morality, evangelistic campaigns, and its response to the restructuring of religion in the 1960s.
A chronological history is followed by chapters on the United Church’s worship, theology, understanding of ministry, relationships with the Canadian Jewish community, Israel, and Palestinians, changing mission goals in relation to First Nations peoples, and changing social imaginary.
The result is an original, accessible, and engaging account of The United Church of Canada’s pilgrimage that will be useful for students, historians, and general readers. From this account there emerges a complex portrait of the United Church as a distinctly Canadian Protestant church shaped by both its Christian faith and its engagement with the changing society of which it is a part.
Don Schweitzer was ordained in The United Church of Canada in 1982 and settled at Turtle River Larger Parish in Saskatchewan Conference northwest of North Battleford, Saskatchewan. In 1987 he left to pursue doctoral studies in theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. In 1991 he was settled along with Leslie Schweitzer (née Goodwin) at Wesley United Church in Prince Albert. He and Leslie have two sons, Simon and Ian. Since 2000 he has taught theology at St. Andrew’s College in Saskatoon. Don Schweitzer is a past president of the Canadian Theological Society. He is co-editor with Derek Simon of Intersecting Voices: Critical Theologies in a Land of Diversity (2004) and the author of Contemporary Christologies (2010).
Table of Contents for The United Church of Canada: A History edited by Don Schweitzer
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Abbreviations
Genealogical Chart of Church Union in Canada | William T. Gunn
Part One: Chronology
1. Unity Among Many: The Formation of The United Church of Canada, 1899–1930 | C.T. McIntire
2. The 1930s | Eleanor J. Stebner
3. The United Church and the Second World War | Ian McKay Manson
4. A Golden Age: The United Church of Canada, 1946–1960 | John H. Young
5. “And Whether Pigs Have Wings”: The United Church in the 1960s | Sandra Beardsall
6. The 1970s: Voices from the Margins | Joan Wyatt
7. 1980s: What Does it Mean to Be The United Church of Canada? Emergent Voices, Self-Critique, and Dissent | Tracy J. Trothen
8. 1990–2003: The Church into the New Millennium | Ross Bartlett
Part II: Thematic Issues
9. Worship on the Way: The Dialectic of United Church Worship | William S. Kervin
10. A Look at Ministry: Diversity and Ambiguity | Charlotte Caron
11. United Church Mission Goals and First Nations Peoples | Alf Dumont and Roger Hutchinson
12. Jews and Palestinians: An Unresolved Conflict in The United Church Mind | Alan Davies
13. Awash in Theology: Issues in Theology in The United Church of Canada | Michael Bourgeois
14. The Changing Social Imaginary of The United Church of Canada | Don Schweitzer
List of Contributors
Index
Contributors’ Bios
Ross Bartlett is an ordained United Church minister and instructor at the Atlantic School of Theology and lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Sandra Beardsall is Professor of Church History and Ecumenics at St. Andrew’s College, Saskatoon.
Michael Bourgeois is Vice-principal and Associate Professor of Theology at Emmanuel College, Toronto, and served as Chair of The United Church of Canada’s Committee on Theology and Faith from 2000 to 2006 during the development of "A Song of Faith."
Charlotte Caron, a diaconal minister in the United Church, is currently Acting Principal at the Centre for Christian Studies in Winnipeg, and a volunteer with the Stephen Lewis Grandmother-to-Grandmother campaign.
Alan Davies is Emeritus Professor of Religion, Victoria University and University of Toronto.
Alf Dumont was the minister at St. John’s United Church in Alliston (1992–2011) and adjunct staff at Emmanuel College (2005–10). He was the first Director of the Dr. Jessie Saulteaux Resource Centre (1984-88) and the First Speaker (Executive Secretary) of the All Native Circle Conference (1988–92).
Roger Hutchinson is Emeritus Professor of Church and Society at Emmanuel College of Victoria University and the Toronto School of Theology at the University of Toronto.
William S. Kervin is Associate Professor of Public Worship at Emmanuel College of Victoria University and the Toronto School of Theology in the University of Toronto.
Ian McKay Manson is an ordained United Church minister currently working in Toronto. He holds a Th.D. in the History of Christianity from Emmanuel College, Toronto School of Theology, University of Toronto.
C.T. McIntire teaches history and religion at the University of Toronto, and is a fellow of Victoria College, Toronto.
Don Schweitzer is McDougald Professor of Theology at St. Andrew’s College, Saskatoon.
Eleanor J. Stebner holds the J.S. Woodsworth Chair in the Humanities at Simon Fraser University.
Tracy J. Trothen is Associate Professor of Theology and Ethics at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.
Joan Wyatt is an independent scholar and Th.D. candidate at Emmanuel College, Toronto School of Theology, University of Toronto.
John H. Young is Assistant Professor of Practical Studies at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario.