View from the Murney Tower : Salem Bland, the Late-Victorian Controversies, and the Search for a New Christianity, Volume 1.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Prologue -- Epiphany -- 1 Newness of Life -- 2 Family Pilgrimage -- 3 Heresy! -- 4 The World, the Flesh, and the Young Preacher -- 5 The View from Murney Tower -- 6 Protestant Passions and the Politics of Prophecy -- 7 Signs of the Times -- 8 The Religiousness of Reason -- 9 How the Walls Fall Away! -- 10 The Consciences of Many Are Still Asleep -- 11 A Large and Animating Hope -- 12 Nation and Empire -- 13 Capital Prospects -- 14 The Word Made Flesh -- Epilogue: Afloat on Such a Sea -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Note on Archival Sources -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Illustration Credits -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

More than just biography, however, The View from the Murney Toweris also an examination of progressive religion in late-Victorian Canada, a time in which Darwinism and other Biblical, social, and intellectual controversies were profoundly affecting the growth of a young nation.

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