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The Christian Conscience and Modern War

Can we bridge the gap of disunity which now divides both Church and country?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2018

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In the light of that Commandment which states, “Thou shalt not kill,” and Our Lord's subsequent teaching in the New Testament, what should be our attitude to killing and war, in the precise situation in which we Christians now find ourselves in the nuclear age?

Unfortunately there is at the moment a most distressing and dangerous disunity on this in the Church, in Parliament, in the country, and in the Western Alliance. Three quite different attitudes are being adopted—three different positions which are causing this tragic disunity amongst us.

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Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 1964

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