W. Stanford Reid

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W. Stanford Reid's career affected both university and religious life in Canada during the post-war period. Donald MacLeod traces Reid's career in the university, first at McGill, where Reid was a history professor for twenty-four years as well as dean of residences, and then at the University of Guelph, where he set up a history department, organized a large graduate program, and created a Scottish Studies emphasis. MacLeod's in-depth analysis examines how an observant Christian academic, unapologetically Calvinist, openly articulated his faith in a secular environment and helped convince evangelicals to abandon their ghettoizing anti-intellectualism. His discussion of Reid's international networking serves as a reminder of the way in which Canadian evangelicalism was influenced by and in turn influenced the United States, where Reid's influence was appreciable, both as a trustee of Westminster Seminary for thirty-seven years and as editor at large of the nascent "Christianity Today." "W. Stanford Reid" is a poignant, in-depth investigation of the life of a man whose career spanned academia and church.

subjects: Presbyterian church, clergy,  College teachers,  Presbyterians,  Evangelicalism,  Calvinism,  Canada, biography,  Biography,  Clergy,  Calvinists,  Authors, Canadian (English),  Professeurs (Enseignement supérieur),  Biographies,  Clergé,  Presbytériens,  Calvinistes,  Évangélisme,  Écrivains canadiens-anglais,  Evangelischen,  Presbyterianisme,  Presbyterian Church in Canada,  Canadian Authors