Restoration Movement Churches of Christ In Canada Resisted War

Non-Violence Positions in Restoration Movement Churches of Christ in Canada.

"Church of Christ found itself a co-belligerent alongside other groups much more fundamental and liberal than itself. Like the seventy-five pacifist United Church ministers held up as an example in the Gospel Herald of December 1939, many of the vocal evangelists and leaders of the Church of Christ movement shared a common ethic and belief: war was wrong.

Although the Churches of Christ were small, its pacifist believers counted as an important constituency of the anti-war religious movement – what Socknat has termed “the major resistance to military service in the course of the twentieth century.” They assisted in this struggle even with their small number and despite the possible minority perspective that they represented within their own movement."

~ Must We have War Again? A Preliminary Exploration of Pacifism in the Restoration Movement in Canada Through the Pages of the Gospel Herald (1936-1940)

RUSSEL PRIME