The Prairie labour churches
The Methodist input
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3944785 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Oscar L Cole-Arnal (Waterloo Lutheran Seminary/Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5), Oscar Cole-Arnal (Wilfrid Laurier University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-26 |
| Publication date | 2005-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-4298 • E-ISSN: 2042-0587 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/000842980503400101 |
| OpenAlex | W2041354349 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
This article takes a new look at five major social gospel leaders and their controversial connections with the labour churches associated with the Winnipeg General Strike. Over against the view posited by Richard Allen's seminal book The Social Passion that these "radicals" marginalized themselves within their Methodist Church, this study proposes that important persons and institutions within the Methodist Church pushed these five figures to the margins of the church to the point that four of them left the church, whereas the fifth Salem Bland, lost his position as a seminary professor because of his social activism
Gospel · Local church · Passion · Point (geometry · Political science · Politics · Social activism · Social Gospel · Sociology · Theology · Agriculture and Farm Safety · Canadian Identity and History · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment · Religious studies · Social Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |