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The Founding MomentChurch, Society, and the Construction of Trinity College |
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An incisive look at the founding of Trinity College, explaining the reasons it was founded, the social, religious, and cultural character it assumed, and the problems it encountered over its first thirty years.
In The Founding Moment William Westfall details the founding of Trinity College, telling the story of an important group of Anglicans who tried to respond creatively to the powerful social forces reshaping English-speaking Canada in the middle of the nineteenth century.
He explores the motives, goals, and social and religious ideas that were behind the creation of this important institution of higher education, explaining the reasons Trinity was founded, the role it played in Canadian society, and the way its founding doctrines were transformed into a functioning college. He also challenges the social and educational views of the founders, giving voice to those who did not share the founders' vision and criticized the course the college was determined to pursue. These dissenting voices help us understand the problems the new college faced and the steps a new generation of leadership would take to point the college in a new direction, and define a very different relationship with the modern world.
He explores the motives, goals, and social and religious ideas that were behind the creation of this important institution of higher education, explaining the reasons Trinity was founded, the role it played in Canadian society, and the way its founding doctrines were transformed into a functioning college. He also challenges the social and educational views of the founders, giving voice to those who did not share the founders' vision and criticized the course the college was determined to pursue. These dissenting voices help us understand the problems the new college faced and the steps a new generation of leadership would take to point the college in a new direction, and define a very different relationship with the modern world.
Details
Part of the McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion Series (number 2.22 in series)
200 Pages, 5.5 x 8.5
Illustrations
ISBN 9780773524477
April 2002
Formats: Cloth, eBook
"Trinity is but the laboratory where Westfall plies his imagination in recreating an intellectual and social world we have almost entirely lost and mostly forgotten ever existed. The quality and range of his scholarship is on full display - both his command of the Canadian and international literature, and his well-established ability to exploit sources." R.D. Gidney, emertius, Faculty of Education, University of Western Ontario
"A vital and significant contribution to Canadian history." Elizabeth Smyth, Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, OISE, University of Toronto
"Told with admirable clarity, this multilayered account of the founding of one small nineteenth-century denominational college in a for corner of the empire offers rich insight into diverse options of dissent and protest available to elite Victorians in the face of pervasive cultural change." The Canadian Historical Review
"A vital and significant contribution to Canadian history." Elizabeth Smyth, Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, OISE, University of Toronto
"Told with admirable clarity, this multilayered account of the founding of one small nineteenth-century denominational college in a for corner of the empire offers rich insight into diverse options of dissent and protest available to elite Victorians in the face of pervasive cultural change." The Canadian Historical Review
William Westfall is associate professor in the Division of Humanities (Faculty of Arts) and Department of History (Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies), York University. He is the author of Two Worlds: The Protestant Culture of Nineteenth Century Ontario.
9780228008903
$75.00 CAD
Cloth
9780773532847
$37.95 CAD
Paperback
9780773530577
$125.00 CAD
Cloth
9780773516007
$125.00 CAD
Cloth
Winner
Clio Award for the Ontario Region
Canadian Historical Association (2003)
Clio Award for the Ontario Region
Canadian Historical Association (2003)
