Into Deep Waters: Evangelical Spirituality and Maritime Calvinistic Baptist Ministers, 1790-1855

345 Pages·2010·2.24 MB·English

by  Daniel C. Goodwin

into deep waters
mcgill-queen’s studies in the history of religion
volumes in this series have been supported by
the jackman foundation of toronto.
series two in memory of george rawlyk
donald harman akenson, editor
1 Marguerite Bourgeoys and Montreal, 11 Culture, Religion, and
1640–1665 Demographic Behaviour
Patricia Simpson Catholics and Lutherans in Alsace,
1750–1870
2 Aspects of the Canadian Evangelical
Kevin McQuillan
Experience
Edited by G.A. Rawlyk 12 Between Damnation and Starvation
Priests and Merchants in
3 Infinity, Faith, and Time
Newfoundland Politics, 1745–1855
Christian Humanism and
John P. Greene
Renaissance Literature
John Spencer Hill 13 Martin Luther, German Saviour
German Evangelical Theological
4 The Contribution of Presbyterianism
Factions and the Interpretation
to the Maritime Provinces of Canada
of Luther, 1917–1933
Edited by Charles H.H. Scobie
James M. Stayer
and G.A. Rawlyk
14 Modernity and the Dilemma of North
5 Labour, Love, and Prayer
American Anglican Identities,
Female Piety in Ulster Religious
1880–1950
Literature, 1850–1914
William H. Katerberg
Andrea Ebel Brozyna
15 The Methodist Church on the Prairies,
6 The Waning of the Green
1896–1914
Catholics, the Irish, and Identity
George Emery
inToronto, 1887–1922
Mark G. McGowan 16 Christian Attitudes towards the State
of Israel
7 Religion and Nationality
Paul Charles Merkley
in Western Ukraine
The Greek Catholic Church and 17 A Social History of the Cloister
theRuthenian National Movement Daily Life in the Teaching Monasteries
inGalicia, 1867–1900 of the Old Regime
John-Paul Himka Elizabeth Rapley
8 Good Citizens 18 Households of Faith
British Missionaries and Imperial Family, Gender, and Community
States, 1870–1918 in Canada, 1760–1969
James G. Greenlee and Edited by Nancy Christie
Charles M. Johnston
19 Blood Ground
9 The Theology of the Oral Torah Colonialism, Missions, and the
Revealing the Justice of God Contest for Christianity in the Cape
Jacob Neusner Colony and Britain, 1799–1853
Elizabeth Elbourne
10 Gentle Eminence
A Life of Cardinal Flahiff 20 A History of Canadian Catholics
P. Wallace Platt Gallicanism, Romanism, and
Canadianism
Terence J. Fay
21 The View from Rome 33 Forkhill Protestants and Forkhill
Archbishop Stagni’s 1915 Reports Catholics, 1787–1858
on the Ontario Bilingual Schools Kyla Madden
Question
34 For Canada’s Sake
Edited and translated by John Zucchi
Public Religion, Centennial
22 The Founding Moment Celebrations, and the Re-making
Church, Society, and the Construction ofCanada in the 1960s
of Trinity College Gary R. Miedema
William Westfall
35 Revival in the City
23 The Holocaust, Israel, and Canadian The Impact of American Evangelists
Protestant Churches inCanada, 1884–1914
Haim Genizi Eric R. Crouse
24 Governing Charities 36 The Lord for the Body
Church and State in Toronto’s Religion, Medicine, and Protestant
Catholic Archdiocese, 1850–1950 Faith Healing in Canada, 1880–1930
Paula Maurutto James Opp
25 Anglicans and the Atlantic World 37 Six Hundred Years of Reform
High Churchmen, Evangelicals, Bishops and the French Church,
andthe Quebec Connection 1190–1789
Richard W. Vaudry J. Michael Hayden and Malcolm
R. Greenshields
26 Evangelicals and the Continental Divide
The Conservative Protestant Subculture 38 The Missionary Oblate Sisters
in Canada and the United States Vision and Mission
Sam Reimer Rosa Bruno-Jofré
27 Christians in a Secular World 39 Religion, Family, and Community
The Canadian Experience in Victorian Canada
Kurt Bowen The Colbys of Carrollcroft
Marguerite Van Die
28 Anatomy of a Seance
A History of Spirit Communication 40 Michael Power
in Central Canada The Struggle to Build the Catholic
Stan McMullin Church on the Canadian Frontier
Mark G. McGowan
29 With Skilful Hand
The Story of King David 41 The Catholic Origins of Quebec’s
David T. Barnard Quiet Revolution, 1931–1970
Michael Gauvreau
30 Faithful Intellect
Samuel S. Nelles and Victoria 42 Marguerite Bourgeoys and the
University Congregation of Notre Dame,
Neil Semple 1665–1700
Patricia Simpson
31 W. Stanford Reid
An Evangelical Calvinist 43 To Heal a Fractured World
in the Academy The Ethics of Responsibility
Donald MacLeod Jonathan Sacks
32 A Long Eclipse 44 Revivalists
The Liberal Protestant Establishment Marketing the Gospel in English
and the Canadian University, Canada, 1884–1957
1920–1970 Kevin Kee
Catherine Gidney
45 The Churches and Social Order in 50 A War with a Silver Lining
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Canadian Protestant Churches and
Canada theSouth African War, 1899–1902
Edited by Michael Gauvreau Gordon L. Heath
and Ollivier Hubert
51 In the Aftermath of Catastrophe
46 Political Ecumenism Founding Judaism, 70 to 640
Catholics, Jews, and Protestants in Jacob Neusner
De Gaulle’s Free France, 1940–1945
52 Imagining Holiness
Geoffrey Adams
Classic Hasidic Tales in Modern Times
47 From Quaker to Upper Canadian Justin Jaron Lewis
Faith and Community among Yonge
53 Shouting, Embracing, and Dancing
Street Friends, 1801–1850
with Ecstasy
Robynne Rogers Healey
The Growth of Methodism in
48 The Congrégation de Notre-Dame, Newfoundland, 1774–1874
Superiors, and the Paradox of Power, Calvin Hollett
1693–1796
54 Into Deep Waters
Colleen Gray
Evangelical Spirituality and Maritime
49 Canadian Pentecostalism Calvinistic Baptist Ministers,
Transition and Transformation 1790–1855
Edited by Michael Wilkinson Daniel C. Goodwin
series one: g.a. rawlyk, editor
1 Small Differences 7 A World Mission
Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants, Canadian Protestantism and the
1815–1922 Quest for a New International Order,
An International Perspective 1918–1939
Donald Harman Akenson Robert Wright
2 Two Worlds 8 Serving the Present Age
The Protestant Culture of Nineteenth- Revivalism, Progressivism, and
Century Ontario the Methodist Tradition in Canada
William Westfall Phyllis D. Airhart
3 An Evangelical Mind 9 A Sensitive Independence
Nathanael Burwash and the Methodist Canadian Methodist Women
Tradition in Canada, 1839–1918 Missionaries in Canada and
Marguerite Van Die theOrient, 1881–1925
Rosemary R. Gagan
4 The Dévotes
Women and Church in Seventeenth- 10 God’s Peoples
Century France Covenant and Land in South Africa,
Elizabeth Rapley Israel, and Ulster
Donald Harman Akenson
5 The Evangelical Century
College and Creed in English Canada 11 Creed and Culture
from the Great Revival to the The Place of English-Speaking
GreatDepression Catholics in Canadian Society,
Michael Gauvreau 1750–1930
Edited by Terrence Murphy
6 The German Peasants’ War and
andGerald Stortz
Anabaptist Community of Goods
James M. Stayer
12 Piety and Nationalism 20 Church, College, and Clergy
Lay Voluntary Associations and A History of Theological Education
the Creation of an Irish-Catholic at Knox College, Toronto, 1844–1994
Community in Toronto, 1850–1895 Brian J. Fraser
Brian P. Clarke
21 The Lord’s Dominion
13 Amazing Grace The History of Canadian Methodism
Studies in Evangelicalism in Australia, Neil Semple
Britain, Canada, and the United States
22 A Full-Orbed Christianity
Edited by George Rawlyk
The Protestant Churches and Social
and Mark A. Noll
Welfare in Canada, 1900–1940
14 Children of Peace Nancy Christie and Michael Gauvreau
W. John McIntyre
23 Evangelism and Apostasy
15 A Solitary Pillar The Evolution and Impact of
Montreal’s Anglican Church Evangelicals in Modern Mexico
and the Quiet Revolution Kurt Bowen
Joan Marshall
24 The Chignecto Covenanters
16 Padres in No Man’s Land A Regional History of Reformed
Canadian Chaplains and the Great War Presbyterianism in New Brunswick
Duff Crerar and Nova Scotia, 1827–1905
Eldon Hay
17 Christian Ethics and Political Economy
in North America 25 Methodists and Women’s Education
A Critical Analysis in Ontario, 1836–1925
P. Travis Kroeker Johanne Selles
18 Pilgrims in Lotus Land 26 Puritanism and Historical Controversy
Conservative Protestantism in British William Lamont
Columbia, 1917–1981
Robert K. Burkinshaw
19 Through Sunshine and Shadow
The Woman’s Christian Temperance
Union, Evangelicalism, and Reform
in Ontario, 1874–1930
Sharon Cook
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Into Deep Waters
Evangelical Spirituality and Maritime
Calvinistic Baptist Ministers,
1790–1855
daniel c. goodwin
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Montreal & Kingston • London • Ithaca
© McGill-Queen’s University Press 2010
isbn 978-0-7735-3668-5
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Goodwin, Daniel C. (Daniel Corey), 1962–
Into deep waters: evangelical spirituality and maritime Calvinistic Baptist ministers,
1790–1855 / Daniel C. Goodwin.
(McGill-Queen’s studies in the history of religion. Series two; no. 54)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn 978-0-7735-3668-5
1. Baptists – Maritime Provinces – History – 19th century. 2. Evangelicalism –
Maritime Provinces – History – 19th century. 3. Baptists – Maritime Provinces –
Clergy – Biography. I. Title. II. Series: McGill-Queen’s studies in the history
of religion. Series two no. 54
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