The 2012 Historical Papers of the Canadian Society of Church History

“Calm determination & cool brains”: Mary Chesnut’s God in the 1860s
TODD WEBB 5

Florence Nightingale: Mystic or Moralist?
DONNA KERFOOT 21

The Question of Women’s Leadership: Tensions in the Life and Thought of Isabel Crawford
MARILYN FÄRDIG WHITELEY 41

Carl Friedrich Bahrdt (1740-92): Pietism, Enlightenment, and the Autonomous Self in Early Modern Germany
DOUGLAS H. SHANTZ 51

Parading the Children: The Leisure Activities of Ontario’s Protestant Sunday Schools, 1840-70
PATRICIA KMIEC 67

“College Has been the Means of My Conversion”: The Empowering Role of Evangelicalism in Southern Women’s Colleges, 1800-65
JESSICA VANDERHEIDE 87

Myth Meets Reality: Canadian Presbyterians and the Great War
STUART MACDONALD 101

Crossroads for a British Columbia Mission: Esperanza Hospital and Ministry Centre
ROBERT K. BURKINSHAW 119

Fear and Denial at the Crossroads? Where is the History of the “Child Abuse Scandal” within the Roman Catholic Church?
SHEILA A. REDMOND 139

“Know God, Serve Others”: Religion in the Canadian Girls in Training in the Interwar Years
MEGAN BAXTER 155

Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Life of Henry Bird Steinhauer
NORMAN KNOWLES 171

CSCH President’s Address
Church Historical Writing in the English Transatlantic World during the Age of Enlightenment
DARREN W. SCHMIDT 185