The Christian Faith and War

At the present time we hear on all side discussion of war and the Christian view of wat. The questions raised are not new – the very same questions were being posed by the disaffected intelligentsia in Russia in the early part of this century. In the middle of World War I, Metropolitan Antony, in many respects the leading hierarch of the Russian Church and later the first President of the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, answered the points being raised by pacifists and expounded the Orthodox Christian view of war…His article is still relevant to us today. — The Christian Faith and War.