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In 1 Corinthians 9:7, [6] this image is used in a discussion of church workers receiving payment, with a metaphorical reference to a soldier's rations and expenses. [ 7 ] Ephesians 6:10–18 [ 8 ] discusses faith , righteousness , and other elements of Christianity as the armour of God , and this imagery is replicated by John Bunyan in The ...
The Orthodox Church took the view that it was better to change the soul of the enemy rather than to kill them; [11] however, they also saw an obligation to defend against a threat, and as such saw war as a lesser, necessary evil. In the 13th century, Thomas Aquinas set out the criteria for a just war in the Summa Theologica. [12]
As a biblical reference, the metaphor may refer to physical armour worn by God in metaphorical battles, or it may refer to vigilant righteousness in general as bestowed by the grace of God (Romans 13:12, King James Version): "The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the ...
Example of arms attributed to Jesus from the 15th-century Hyghalmen Roll. Heralds could have attributed to Jesus the harp for arms inherited as a descendant of David. Nevertheless, the cross was regarded as Christ's emblem, and it was so used by the Crusaders. Sometimes the arms of Christ feature a Paschal lamb as the principal charge.
Warfare represents a special category of biblical violence and is a topic the Bible addresses, directly and indirectly, in four ways: there are verses that support pacifism, and verses that support non-resistance; 4th century theologian Augustine found the basis of just war in the Bible, and preventive war which is sometimes called crusade has also been supported using Bible texts.
The military saints, warrior saints and soldier saints are patron saints, martyrs and other saints associated with the military.They were originally composed of the early Christians who were soldiers in the Roman army during the persecution of Christians, especially the Diocletianic Persecution of AD 303–313.
Like many in his generation, war was omnipresent in Farrow’s life. He was born in 1943 in Brooklyn, New York, during World War 2. In his early 20s, he protested the Vietnam War and avoided ...
In the Roman Empire, the early church adopted a nonviolent stance when it came to war because the imitation of Jesus's sacrificial life was preferable to it. [2] The concept of "Just War", the belief that limited uses of war were acceptable, originated in the writings of earlier non-Christian Roman and Greek thinkers such as Cicero and Plato.