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“The Bible is the Word of God.… What does it Tell us About War?”

“The Bible is the Word of God.… What does it Tell us About War?” On 3rd January 1915, the British government appointed a national day for “humble prayer and intercession” relating to the Great War. This was one in a long series of national days of prayer which dated back to the sixteenth century.A research project investigating these forms of service has identified 856 particular occasions of national worship: Natalie Mears, Alasdair Raffe, Stephen Taylor, and Philip Williamson, eds., National Prayers: Special worship since the Reformation (Church of England Record Society; 3 vols. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2013), vol. 1, xxv. The series began in 1533 with a day of thanksgiving for the birth of Princess Elizabeth (Mears, Raffe, Taylor, and Williamson, eds., National prayers, 3). Unfortunately, the volume dealing with the twentieth century is still in preparation.As Joseph Hardwick and Philip Williamson observe, “during periods of anxiety or crisis, days of fasting, humiliation, intercession or national prayer were observed to implore God’s intervention, or to seek better understanding of the divine purposes.”Joseph Hardwick and Philip Williamson, “Special Worship in the British Empire: From the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries,” in The Church and Empire (Studies in Church History 54), eds. S. J. Brown, Charlotte Methuen, and Andrew Spicer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the Bible and its Reception de Gruyter

“The Bible is the Word of God.… What does it Tell us About War?”

Methuen, Charlotte
Journal of the Bible and its Reception , Volume 4 (2): 14 – Oct 26, 2017
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On 3rd January 1915, the British government appointed a national day for “humble prayer and intercession” relating to the Great War. This was one in a long series of national days of prayer which dated back to the sixteenth century.A research project investigating these forms of service has identified 856 particular occasions of national worship: Natalie Mears, Alasdair Raffe, Stephen Taylor, and Philip Williamson, eds., National Prayers: Special worship since the Reformation (Church of England Record Society; 3 vols. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2013), vol. 1, xxv. The series began in 1533 with a day of thanksgiving for the birth of Princess Elizabeth (Mears, Raffe, Taylor, and Williamson, eds., National prayers, 3). Unfortunately, the volume dealing with the twentieth century is still in preparation.As Joseph Hardwick and Philip Williamson observe, “during periods of anxiety or crisis, days of fasting, humiliation, intercession or national prayer were observed to implore God’s intervention, or to seek better understanding of the divine purposes.”Joseph Hardwick and Philip Williamson, “Special Worship in the British Empire: From the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries,” in The Church and Empire (Studies in Church History 54), eds. S. J. Brown, Charlotte Methuen, and Andrew Spicer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,

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