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The Great and Holy War: How World War I Became a Religious Crusade Philip Jenkins
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Apr 23, 2014 - It proved the strength the church had over various European nations and the lengths many were willing to go to bare the cross and join a religious crusade for the Holy Land. Just as all men who live under Roman rule serve in the armies under you, the emperors and princes of the world, so too do you serve as soldiers of almighty God and of our holy faith. Feb 20, 2014 - Just War Theory: A Primer. Following September 11, Boykin, at the time the Commanding General of the sprawling Fort Bragg, N.C. The significance of the Great battle of Antioch cannot be overstressed. Mar 4, 2014 - Most (non-fundamentalist) Christians practice their faith in a manner that holds aloft the treasured values of love, peace, and good will towards their fellow humans. Introduction All Christians desire to fight injustice, bring about peace, and diminish the amount of pain in the fallen world we live in. In paid Fortune Ranks the World's 50 Greatest LeadersFortune.com. Outside those boundaries were other large Christian . Throughout history there have been differing ideas about how the Church is to Many have associated just war theory with holy wars or crusades and some want to associate the theory with machismo affairs or political wars but all these associations are short-sighted as well as false. Between 1000 and 1300 He set out from the start to launch a holy war against what he called 'the savagery of the Saracens', a 'barbarian' people capable of incomprehensible levels of cruelty and brutality.” (33); “By . Tomaz Mastnak writes on p.63 of Crusading Peace:. Mar 4, 2014 - Next month, HarperOne will publish The Great and Holy War: How World War I Became a Religious Crusade by Philip Jenkins (Baylor University). May 12, 2014 - Inside the boundaries of the Roman Empire, which was still fully functional in the eastern Mediterranean, orthodox Christianity was the official, and overwhelmingly majority, religion. Military facility, would preach that the United States was engaged in nothing less than an all-out holy war. Jan 17, 2009 - This was not the first war between Christians and Muslims, but it was the conflict that set these two world religions on a course towards deep seated animosity and enduring enmity. This was generally representative of the Muslim attitude toward the crusades before about World War I—that is, when Muslims bothered to remember them at all, which was not often. Oct 30, 2011 - The conversion of Constantine and the final recognition of Christianity as the official religion of the Roman empire in 381 prompted the emergence of a set of limited principles of Christian just war which, by virtue of being fought by . The publisher's description follows.