This post highlights a few recent publications on Baptists in Canada. If you have a new book that you would like to add to a future list, please contact us.

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Baptists and Business: Central Canadian Baptists and the Secularization of the Businessman at Toronto’s Jarvis Street Baptist Church, 1848–1921 (Monographs in Baptist History) by Paul R. Wilson. Available here.

From the publisher website:

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.

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The Collected Writings of Stanley K. Fowler, Volume 1: Soteriology, Moral Theology & Contemporary Issues by Stanley K. Fowler | Edited by Michael A.G. Haykin & Jonathan N. Cleland. Available here.

The Collected Writings of Stanley K. Fowler, Volume 2: Ecclesiology, Sacramentalism & Eschatology by Stanley K. Fowler | Edited by Michael A.G. Haykin & Jonathan N. Cleland. Available here.

From the publisher website:

For over fifty years, the writings of Stanley K. Fowler, long-time professor of theological studies at Central Baptist Seminary, Toronto, Ont., and then Heritage College & Seminary, Cambridge, Ont., have informed and clarified theological issues for Baptists in Ontario, Canada and beyond. This key “theologian in service of the church” has made his mark on students, pastors and lay people alike with the clarity of his writing, his prescient theological acumen and his love for the church. The writings in these volumes span his time as a Masters student, a ThD student, a pastor and a theological professor (1969-2021).

Using careful biblical exegesis to address issues facing the church-such as baptism, local church autonomy, public ethics, divine sovereignty and human freedom and divorce and remarriage-Dr. Fowler has sought to equip Christians to serve the Lord well in the present day.

In this two-volume collection of his works, the editors have strived to provide a comprehensive record of Dr. Fowler’s writings so the church can continue to learn from his insightful handling of the Word of God and enter deeper into relationship with the Word made flesh, Jesus Christ.

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The Black Baptist Experience in Canada (Canadian Baptist Historical Series 5; McMaster General Studies Series) edited by Gordon L. Heath and Dudley A. Brown. Available here.

From the publisher website:

This groundbreaking book is a history of the Black Baptist experience in Canada. It includes diverse and informative chapters on events, themes, and organizations such as the underground railway, gender, architecture, literature, civil rights, empire, and associations. It also focuses on several key early churches from the West Coast to the East Coast, along with important personages such as Washington Christian, Jennie Johnson, David George, William White, William Troy, and William M. Mitchell.