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oa Dienaar van twee meesters
Militaire geestelijken tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog
- Amsterdam University Press
- Source: Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, Volume 132, Issue 2, Sep 2019, p. 231 - 255
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- 01 Sep 2019
Abstract
Abstract
In the service of two masters: military chaplains during the First World War
This article treats the work of the British Anglican, German Protestant and French Catholic military chaplains during the First World War. Based on a wide range of sources, the author aims to answer the question of whether these men experienced role tension. This is the tension between their religious and secular responsibilities; between their two masters: the church and the state. Especially British and German chaplains occasionally felt their secular ‘side jobs’ had a negative impact on their religious task. However, most had little difficulty integrating their work for God and their work for troop morale.
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