1974/06/01 by John Helgeland · 3 citations
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Historical and Architectural Studies #Theology and Canon Law Studies #American Constitutional Law and Politics
paper · doi:10.2307/3163949
openalex publication_date 1974/06/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
The question of the church's stand during the first three and a half centuries on Christians enlisting in the Roman army has received much attention since 1900. With slight overlapping, modern historians of the encounter of Christians with the Roman military fall into three basic groups: Roman Catholic, Protestant pacifist and “establishment” Protestant, primarily Lutheran.