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The Army Chaplain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 January 2009

Henry Bradford Washburn
Henry Bradford Washburn
Affiliation:
Professor of Church HistoryEpiscopal Theological School, Cambridge, Mass.
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Extract

IN the broadest meaning of the word, the “chaplain” has been with the armies of the world since men first went to war. Whenever men have recognized the gods or God in intertribal and international disagreement, the representatives of supernatural power have been among the soldiers.

Type
Research Article
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Papers of the American Society of Church History , Volume 7 , March 1923 , pp. 1 - 23
Copyright
Copyright © American Society for Church History 1923

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References

1 Naegele, as cited, p. 87.