Chapter VII War and Christianity
The war question at the time of the Reformation
The remonstrances of Erasmus against the custom
Influence of Grotius on the side of war
The war question in the early Church
The Fathers against the lawfulness of war
Causes of the changed views of the Church
The clergy as active combatants for over a thousand years
Fighting bishops
Bravery in war and ecclesiastical preferment
Pope Julius II. at the siege of Mirandola
The last fighting bishop
Origin and meaning of the declaration of war
Superstition in the naming of weapons, ships, &c.
The custom of kissing the earth before a charge
Connection between religious and military ideas
The Church as a pacific agency
Her efforts to set limits to reprisals
The altered attitude of the modern Church
Early Reformers only sanctioned just wars
Voltaire’s reproach against the Church
Canon Mozley’s sermon on war
The answer to his apology