It Is Not Lawful for Me to Fight: Early Christian Attitudes Toward War, Violence, and the State by Jean-Michel Hornus

It Is Not Lawful for Me to Fight: Early Christian Attitudes Toward War, Violence, and the State

Christian Peace Shelf

Jean-Michel Hornus with Alan Kreider (Translator), Oliver Coburn (Translator)

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nonfiction history politics religion medium-paced
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""It is not lawful for me to fight."" With these words Saint Martin of Tours left the Roman army in AD 356. In so doing, he-who ironically in later centuries was named patron saint of numerous garrison chapels-was acting in accordance with the tea...

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