Baptists and Business: Central Canadian Baptists and the Secularization of the Businessman at Toronto's Jarvis Street Baptist Church, 1848-1921
Paul R. Wilson
May 2025 · Monographs in Baptist History Book 30 · Wipf and Stock Publishers
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This study of Baptist businessmen from Jarvis Street Baptist Church in Toronto breaks new ground. The challenges to faith exerted by the arrival of a new materialistic social ethic and a business-dominated culture in the last half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has received little attention from Canadian historians. Instead, historians have primarily focused on religious leaders and intellectual challenges to faith. This study examines the sociocultural challenges that confronted one group of central Canadian Baptist businessmen from 1848 to 1921. Essentially, the findings offered here are used to sustain the argument that the rise of business and consumerism helped to secularize the beliefs, values, and practices of Baptist businessmen. Furthermore, the effects of secularization were profound on both the personal and church community levels.
About the author
Paul R. Wilson is the president of the Canadian Baptist Historical Society and a former Baptist pastor and professor. He is the co-editor of two books, Baptists and Public Life in Canada and Canadian Baptist Fundamentalism, 1878-1978. He has also contributed book chapters and published journal articles about the rich history of Canadian Baptists, particularly those from Ontario.
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