John Braithwaite

Paul R. Wilson

Chapter by J.B. Braithwaite and B. Condon separately annotated.

Crimes of the Powerless and the Powerful

Two Faces of Deviance

Taylor Murray

As the first single-volume work to present a national picture of Baptist engagement with the fundamentalist movement in Canada in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Canadian Baptist Fundamentalism fills an important gap in the historiography. It explores the contributions of well-known fundamentalists, such as T. T. Shields, William “Bible Bill” Aberhart, and J. J. Sidey, while also introducing the reader to several lesser-known figures, including Joshua Denovan, E. J. Stobo, and T. A. Meister. Together, these studies demonstrate the diversity of the fundamentalist movement as it emerged and developed across Canada. By drawing on material from across the country, Canadian Baptist Fundamentalism addresses old themes in new ways—and, in the process, raises a variety of questions and possibilities for new avenues of study.

Canadian Baptist Fundamentalism, 1878-1978

The Birthday of Eternity takes a lively, gonzo-like romp into the Victorian school story, a world replete with sex, decadence, and war. Oliver Wilde, an ailing scholar, recalls his lost youth as a much-bullied student attending Malmedy--a Victorian boarding school on an English moor. Like his near-namesake, Oscar Wilde, Oliver hides his inner demons. A spiritless summer explodes when two likeminded adolescents invade his world: the sexually alluring Sabine Loy, endowed with an ability to see the dead, and the pleasure seeker, Lucien Gale, a decadent able to discern the soul's darkest secrets. The trinity embark on an odyssey, venturing into drugs and sex while pursuing every precious moment of life. Oscar's captivation turns to horror when a pair of mysterious deaths disrupts Malmedy. What does Oliver have to do with the tragedies? What dreadful deeds does he conceal? And what strange fate lies ahead for the trio as a dying century ends? The Birthday of Eternity unveils a bittersweet school story unlike any other, an audacious merry-go-round ride rife with depravity and those twin essentials of youth--angst and anarchy.

The Birthday of Eternity

Gordon L. Heath

Public discussion about the relationship between religion and public life in Canada can be heated at times, and scholars have recently focused on the historical study of the many expressions of this relationship. The experience of Canada's smaller Protestant Christian groups, however, has remained largely unexplored. This is particularly true of Canada's Baptists. This volume, the first produced by the Canadian Baptist Historical Society, explores the connections between Baptist faith and Baptist activity in the public domain, and expands the focus of the existing scholarship to include a wide range of Canadian Baptist beliefs, attitudes, perspectives, and actions related to the relationship between Baptist faith and practice and public life.

Paul R. Wilson

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