The response of the Free Church of Scotland to the First World War, 1914-1919
[摘要] The role of religion, and of Christianity in particular, in the context of a doctrinally conservative denomination engaging with theological issues arising from war should be investigated, with the Free Church of Scotland as a benchmark for such a study. That a study of the Free Church of Scotland - a small Presbyterian denomination - in relation to a war defined as “Great” should be undertaken presupposes the importance of religion as a contributing factor in understanding the conflict from small as well as large religious institutions. Thus, the theological and moral aspects of the War relating to divine causation of war, the nature of salvation in the context of death in battle, eschatological interpretation of the War and spiritual comfort and revivification as a result of warfare should be analysed through the spectrum of a denomination facing up to the challenges that war presented in these areas, challenges that the Free Church sought to meet with a robust determination to maintain its traditional confessional teaching.
[发布日期] [发布机构] University:University of Glasgow;Department:School of Critical Studies
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[关键词] Free Church of Scotland, Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland, Church of Scotland, United Free Church of Scotland, theology, causes of war, morality of war, higher criticism, divine judgement, national apostasy, sabbath, Roman Catholicism, armageddon, inter-denominational relations, theology of death, chaplaincy,spiritual impact. [时效性]