From Missionary To Mercenary: How The Church Went From Pacifism To Militancy And Why It Should Return"From Missionary to Mercenary" asks the question of how the Church changed its position of pacifism, as practiced for the first 400 years of the Church, to becoming the main advocators of war. |
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