Anglicans in Canada: Controversies and Identity in Historical Perspective

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© 2004 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America c 5 4 3 2 1 ∞ This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hayes, Alan Lauffer. Anglicans in Canada : controversies and identity in historical perspective / Alan L. Hayes. p. cm. — (Studies in Anglican history) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 0-252-02902-x (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Anglican Church of Canada—History. 2. Canada—Church history. I. Title. II. Series. bx5610.h39 2004 283'.71—dc22 2003016347 00.FM.i-xvi_Haye 1/20/04, 9:34 AM 4 For Morar 00.FM.i-xvi_Haye 1/20/04, 9:34 AM 5 00.FM.i-xvi_Haye 1/20/04, 9:34 AM 6 Series Editor’s Preface peter w. williams Studies in Anglican History is a series of scholarly monographs sponsored by the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church and published by the University of Illinois Press. It is intended to bring the best of contemporary international scholarship on the history of the entire Anglican Communion, including the Church of England and the Episcopal church in the United States, to a broader readership. In this volume,Alan Hayes has not only assembled an important collection of primary sources for the history of Canadian Anglicanism but has also woven them through his interpretive framework into such a history. Hayes has chosen to do this through an organizational theme that does not simply provide a chronological narrative but highlights the major themes of Canadian Anglican history by focusing each chapter on one of those themes. These themes are missionary outreach, the social role of the church in Canadian society, church governance, worship and discipline, adaptation to modernity, and gender. Although none of those themes has been confined to a single era—the first chapter, for example, deals with current controversies over Anglican missionaries ’ treatment of indigenous people—the order in which they are arranged corresponds with the chronological order in which they became pressing for Canadian Anglicans.As a result,Hayes’s documentary narrative begins with the emergence of a distinctively Canadian Anglican church—albeit one strongly influenced by English, Irish, and American prototypes—and proceeds to issues of the twenty-first century involving gender and sexuality and their impact on issues such as ordination and marriage. In highlighting issues that have had an impact on all Anglicans (and, in many cases, on most Christians and those of other traditions) and what has been distinctive about the Canadian Anglican experience, Hayes has provided not only an engaging narrative of Canadian religious history but also the basis for further comparative study of the development of the Anglican tradition in both the New World and the Old. 00.FM.i-xvi_Haye 1/20/04, 9:34 AM 7 00.FM.i-xvi_Haye 1/20/04, 9:34 AM 8 ...