The impact of the great war on scottish christianity

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    The cost of the war in terms of lives lost and the maiming of bodies and minds all contributed to a questioning of faith and hope in God among the churches. Statistically, the membership of churches remained constant during the war, although there is evidence that the number of children attending traditional Sunday schools declined, and baptismal figure also fell. In a similar spirit, the Free Presbyterian Church supported the war "out of the Church`s sense of civic and national duty, a sense of scriptural duty to be patriotic" (MacLeod 2001, p 84 . . .

     

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