The Whole Armour of God examines and reassesses the role of the
Anglican army chaplains in the Great War. The tensions and
ambiguities of their role in the trenches resulted in criticism of
their achievements. As with other groups such as army generals, the
chaplains were given a bad press in the general disenchantment and
iconoclasm of the 1920's and 30's. Popular literary figures such as
Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon were particularly scathing and
spoke to a wide audience. This book seeks to readdress the balance
by using the words and actions of the chaplains themselves,
interwoven into the events of the war, to show that many strove
valiantly to bring the reality of God to the troops in the
maelstrom of war. They gave a great deal of thought to the often
conflicting demands of providing for the material and social needs
of their men and maintaining their more spiritual role. It explains
how they overturned orders and won the right to be with the troops
in the front line. It tries to judge the chaplains by the ideas and
standards of the time. In February 1919 the Army Chaplains
Department was awarded the accolade of being made the Royal Army
Chaplains Department in recognition of its work in the war. There
is compelling evidence that subsequently the Chaplains have been
judged too harshly, with Parker arguing that the Anglican Chaplains
should be given their rightful place in the history of the Great
War. About the Author Linda Parker has taught History for 20 years,
is an established World War I historian and is the daughter of a
former Territorial Army Chaplain.
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