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Published on: 2/17/2006
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A. Donald MacLeod, W. Stanford Reid: An Evangelical Calvinist in the Academy
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Reid's inspirational life story has now been chronicled in a new biography by Donald MacLeod titled W. Stanford Reid: An Evangelical Calvinist in the Academy.
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Donald MacLeod
In an interview, MacLeod said the PCC has declined from 202,498 members in 1965 to 123,988 in 2004.One of the most dramatic declines he highlighted has come in the Presbytery of Montreal (Quebec), which has experienced a decline from 14,016 members in 1962 to 3,498 in 2004.MacLeod cites four reasons as to why the PCC has experienced such a perilous decline:
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Later, MacLeod was a Woodrow Wilson scholar in history at Harvard.
He was ordained in the PCC in 1963, served various pastorates, and also has served as president of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada and as general director of Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship of Canada. In 1983, he founded a group known as the Renewal Fellowship Within The PCC.
MacLeod continues to work for reform and renewal within the church.Recently, he retired as pastor of St. Andrews Presbyterian Church in Trenton, Ontario, and is serving as research professor of church history at Tyndale Seminary in Toronto.
Tyndale is a non-denominational evangelical seminary that has trained a number of ministers who subsequently were ordained in the PCC, and a few PCC pastors have served on its faculty.The rise and growth of Tyndale and Regent College in Vancouver has been a blessing for Canadian evangelicalism.These two seminaries have aided the evangelical movement in the PCC and have considerably enhanced the academic and spiritual credibility of evangelical thought in Canada.
The 2005 General Assembly of the PCC honored MacLeod with a history award for his biography of Reid, who was a leading evangelical Canadian Presbyterian and a noted historian of the Scottish Reformation.
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MacLeod writes:
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MacLeod writes:
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The Religious and Theological Students Fellowship of the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship of Canada recently invited MacLeod to give a lecture series at various universities on the life and work of Reid.