AGAINST PACIFISM
deferring to what his friend J)r. Koin holf] "Nlobuhr. the celebrated theologian. had called "the essential heresy of absolute pacifism," Dean Ijynii Hough summarised two arguments against it from the religious viewpoint in addresses in Auckland yesterday. ]t was the duty of the Christian, he said, to reconcile the liberty that, implicit in the Christian life with tne. kind of power that was compatible | r itl) libertv. If a man was a Christian he must be rCadv to risk everything for liberty. The present world contest was riot between peace and force, but between unethical force and force whose •word was "unsheathed* only in defence " tho kingdom of God's love.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23968, 19 May 1941, Page 9
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112AGAINST PACIFISM New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23968, 19 May 1941, Page 9
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