Faithful Intellect: Samuel S. Nelles and Victoria University
Neil Semple
In 1850, Samuel Nelles, a well-educated Methodist minister, was selected to resuscitate the debt-ridden and declining Victoria University. As principal, and later as president and chancellor, he fought against shortsighted government educational policies while making the school into one of the premier universities in Canada. A true academic, Nelles believed in the importance of testing assumed laws, dogmas, and creeds. However his pursuit of intellectual inquiry was always guided by a rational faith in God, as well as the expectation of the future greatness and goodness of humanity. Faithful Intellect expands the reader's understanding of many of the key intellectual, religious, and political concerns of nineteenth-century English Canada while providing an essential contribution to the study of Canada's system of higher education.
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Год:
2005
Издательство:
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Язык:
english
Страницы:
384
ISBN 10:
0773527591
ISBN 13:
9780773527591
Серия:
McGill-Queen’s Studies in the History of Religion, Series Two
Файл:
PDF, 21.47 MB
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english, 2005