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In His Name : The Anglican Experience in Upper Canada, 1791-1854

1991

Similarly, with regard to its role in politics, attention is devoted to a wide range of subjects, including the philosophical principles at the heart of the Anglican world view and the idea of church establishment, the ideological response of Anglican clergymen to political reverses, the importance of the church's sense of mission in carrying it through the turbulent 1820s and 1830s, and the effec [...] The laity's reluctance to support the church financially is examined, and the chapters dealing with the Anglican experience after the rebellion look at the growing importance of laymen in the institu- tional and intellectual life of the church, specifically in the work of the Church Society and in the movement for synodical government. [...] Through the reigns of William and Mary, Anne and the first two Georges, there was again a widespread belief that the Church of England had a vital part to play in the governing of the nation and also in maintaining social and political stability, while the state, in turn, had an obligation to defend the church's special position as the "estab- lished" church of the realm. [...] In Nova Scotia the Church of England's established status was recognized in royal instructions to successive governors and also in an act passed by the local legislature in 1758.2 Similarly, in the old province of Quebec, the establishment of the Church of Eng- land was a central part of the imperial government's strategy of preparing the way, gradually but inexorably, for the assimilation of the [...] This ideology, drawing on Anglican theology and the conservative elements of the Whig tradi- 4 Establishment and Survival tion, stressed the divine origins of government, the necessity of obe- dience to the powers that be, the divinely sanctioned nature of the social hierarchy, and the role of the Church of England as an agent of social and political control.16 One man who embodied the intellectua
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C. Fahey

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Bibliography: p. 301-336
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Includes index Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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9780773573635 0886291240
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BX5610
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F25 1991eb
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1 electronic text (xx, 350 p.)
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