Whereas Baptists over the years were convinced that "war is hell" they've got no longer continually been capable of agree on the best way to reply to it. This booklet strains a lot of this bothered dating from the times of Baptist origins with shut ties to pacifist Anabaptists to the responses of Baptists in the USA to the conflict in Vietnam. Essays additionally contain discussions of the English Baptist Andrew Fuller's reaction to the specter of Napoleon, how Baptists in the US handled the warfare of 1812, the help of Canadian Baptists for Britain's battle in Sudan and Abyssinia within the Eighties, the decisive impression of the 1st international battle on Canada's T. T. Shields, the reaction of Australian Baptists to the second one international warfare, and the way Russian Baptists handled the chilly struggle. those chapters supply vital analyses of Baptist reactions to at least one of society's so much intractable difficulties.
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