"Significant in my opinion ... is the author's blazing of a rather unfamiliar trail through Canadian intellectual history of the late nineteenth century ... I am greatly impressed by the scholarship displayed in this [book]." John Webster Grant, Emmanuel College, University of Toronto. "The work makes an important contribution to Canadian (and more broadly, North American) church history." R.T. Handy, Henry Sloan Coffin Professor, Union Theological Seminary, New York.