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The Martyr Cult of the First World War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2016

Gavin White
Gavin White*
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Department of Theology and Church History, University of Glasgow
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It is certain that the unrest of Europe of the past twenty years will be dispelled. It is even likely that our whole civilisation will be advanced.’ So wrote A. E. Lawrie, Rector of Old St Paul’s Episcopal Church in Edinburgh, in October of 1914. He was spending a three-month leave of absence as chaplain to an army hospital behind the lines in France. He added that the death of a particular soldier ‘spoke so loudly of Another Cruel Death, that one could not but link the two together—the spirit of self-indulgence will be trodden underfoot and exchanged for the spirit of self-discipline.’

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Research Article
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Studies in Church History , Volume 30: Martyrs and Martyrologies , 1993 , pp. 383 - 388
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical History Society 1993

References

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2 Ibid. (March 1916).

3 Ibid. (Aug. 1916).

4 Ibid. (Nov.-Dec. 1919).

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