The Sword of the Lord

Of all the conflicts of the 20^th century, World War II looms
the largest. The horrifying death toll, the surprise attack at Pearl
Harbor, the Holocaust, and the unforgettable figures of Eisenhower,
Churchill, and Hitler have combined to keep the war in the popular
consciousness.

Lost in the shadows is the world war that came 30 years earlier, what contemporaries called “The Great War.” Yet in a new book, “The Great and Holy War: How World War I Became a Religious Crusade,” historian Philip Jenkins
of Baylor University shows us that this forgotten conflict had
tremendous implications for both the religious world of its own day and
for our own as well. Observers wishing to understand the origins of the
modern world cannot do so, he argues, without grappling with World War
I’s long-range consequences.

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The Sword of the Lord