CHAPTER VII.

WAR AND CHRISTIANITY.

The war question at the time of the Reformation 185

The remonstrances of Erasmus against the custom 186

Influence of Grotius on the side of war 187

The war question in the early Church 188

The Fathers against the lawfulness of war 190

Causes of the changed views of the Church 192

The clergy as active combatants for over a thousand years 193

Fighting bishops 193

Bravery in war and ecclesiastical preferment 196

Pope Julius II. at the siege of Mirandola 197

The last fighting bishop 197

Origin and meaning of the declaration of war 198

Superstition in the naming of weapons, ships, &c. 200

The custom of kissing the earth before a charge 201

Connection between religious and military ideas 202

The Church as a pacific agency 204

Her efforts to set limits to reprisals 207

The altered attitude of the modern Church 208

Early Reformers only sanctioned _just_ wars 208

Voltaire’s reproach against the Church 210

Canon Mozley’s sermon on war 212

The answer to his apology 214