C. Stacey Woods and the Evangelical Rediscovery of the University

by MacLeod, A. Donald

• ISBN13: 9780830834327
• ISBN10: 083083432X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-06-28
• Publisher: Ivp Academic

Summary

The Word Guild 2008 Canadian Christian Writing Awards winner!C. Stacey Woods was a moving force in mid-century American evangelicalism. The Australian-born, Brethren-bred Woods came to Canada to head InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at the age of 24. He went on to become as well the first general secretary of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in the United States. He started the influential student magazine HIS in the early 1940s and was instrumental in the founding of the worldwide umbrella organization of indigenous student movements--the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students. His global vision inspired many of the most outstanding Christian leaders of the 1960s and 1970s from around the world.He was a brusque, outspoken entrepreneur whose whirlwind style achieved much but was not always suited to administration. A man of great strengths and weaknesses, perhaps his most striking achievement was challenging the anti-intellectualism of conservative American Christianity, encouraging an active engagement with the university. He confronted a fundamentalism that had abandoned to liberalism the very educational institutions its forebears had founded. Woods turned this approach on its head, encouraging active engagement with the students and faculty of the university as well as with the institution itself.This story is an important chapter in understanding the ways evangelicalism has interacted with culture in North America and around the world.

Author Biography

A. Donald MacLeod is Research Professor of Church History at Tyndale Theological Seminary in Toronto

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	p. 9
Preface	p. 12
Introduction	p. 17
Bendigo Brethren Boyhood	p. 23
Australian Adolescence	p. 33
Dallas Dynamic	p. 43
Canadian Challenge	p. 55
A League Beleaguered	p. 67
Expansion South	p. 77
To the Whole World	p. 93
Unprecedented Growth	p. 105
Articulate Author	p. 118
A Dark Space	p. 130
International Inspiration	p. 147
Mid-Decade Malaise	p. 159
American Farewell	p. 171
Global Challenges	p. 183
Mittersill Momentum	p. 195
Canadian Crisis	p. 209
Final Farewells	p. 216
Retirement Rites	p. 228
Epilogue	p. 239
Notes	p. 245
Bibliography	p. 271
Index	p. 275
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