Chaplain Richard M. Budd has made a welcome, concise, well written
and researched contribution to an overlooked chapter in chaplain
history. Anyone interested in gaining a better understanding of how
the professional and fully institutionalized chaplaincy of today's
military came about would do well by consulting Budd's book."
--Bradley L. Carter, "On Point,"
Military chaplains have a long and distinguished tradition in the
United States, but historians have typically ignored their vital
role in ministering to the needs of soldiers and sailors. Richard
M. Budd corrects this omission with a thoughtful history of the
chaplains who sought to create a viable institutional structure for
themselves within the U.S. Army and Navy that would best enable
them to minister to the fighting men.
Despite the chaplaincy's long history of accompanying American
armies into battle, there has never been consensus on its role
within the military, among the churches, or even among chaplains
themselves. Each of these constituencies has had its own vision for
chaplains, and these ideas have evolved with changing social
conditions and military growth. Moreover, chaplains, acting as
members of one profession operating within the specific environment
of another, raised questions of whether they could or should
integrate themselves into the military. In effect they had to learn
to serve two institutional masters, the church and the government,
simultaneously.
Budd provides a history of the struggle of chaplains to
professionalize their ranks and to obtain a significant measure of
autonomy within the military's bureaucratic structure--always with
the ultimate goal of more efficiently bringingtheir spiritual
message to the troops.
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