It Is Not Lawful for Me to Fight

by Jean-Michel Hornus

""It is not lawful for me to fight."" With these words Saint Martin of Tours left the Roman army in AD 356. In so doing, he-who ironically in later centuries was named patron saint of numerous garrison chapels-was acting in accordance with the teaching and discipline of the pre-Constantinian church. The Early Church, as Dr. Hornus demonstrates in this historical and theological study, consistently maintained the stance of enemy loving and nonviolence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 160608934X
• ISBN13: 9781606089347
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.4"