In this work, the celebrated Dutch humanist, scholar, and classicist, Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) examines why Christian nations are constantly at war and draws upon arguments from history, philosophy, and religion to argue that they should cease.

This is a collection of sixty-four essays by a variety of authors and from a wide range of viewpoints on the subjects of war and peace. According to the preface, "There has been, since the time of the gifted Erasmus, a great deal of eloquent writing on Peace; and the following pages contain the best productions on the subject not only of past ages, but of our own." Although written over 150 years ago, these essays on war and peace are extremely relevant given world conditions today.

This Bible-based, exhaustive study of Christian participation in war contains two parts: "New Testament Teaching on Christians Participating in War" and "Common Objections to Christians Not Participating in War." The author's purpose is "to present plain teaching from the New Testament concerning a Christian's relationship to carnal warfare." Includes a Scripture index.

Not all northerners rejected secession and supported the so-called Civil War. The fact that Lincoln jailed northern opponents of the war proves this is so. This is a reprint of two works written near the beginning of the Civil War by the northern Congregational minister George W. Bassett (1812-1880): A Northern Plea for the Right of Secession and A Discourse on the Wickedness and Folly of the Present War.

Journalist, author, and popular economic and political commentator John T. Flynn (1882-1964) supported Roosevelt during the election of 1932 as a partisan Democrat and progressive. Twenty years later he was an Old Right supporter of Robert Taft and a defender of Joe McCarthy who foresaw the coming of the Cold War and the Vietnam War. In between Flynn became disillusioned with Roosevelt and harshly criticized the New Deal. He was the chairman of the New York chapter of the America First Committee and an outspoken anti-interventionist who was forsaken by liberals for his principled stance against U.S. intervention in World War II. But Flynn also rejected the Cold War conservatism of William F. Buckley and National Review. He considered militarism a "job-making boondoggle." World War II was a repetition of World War I, a fight between empires, and all about imperialism. Reprinted here are two pamphlets Flynn privately printed after they first appeared in the Chicago Daily Tribune: The Truth About Pearl Harbor and The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor. Both point out the duplicity and culpability of Roosevelt regarding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Also included are images of eight World War II Pearl Harbor propaganda posters that bid Americans to "Avenge Pearl Harbor" or "Remember Pearl Harbor." This reprint edition includes a foreword by Laurence M. Vance, the editor of the Classic Reprints series and the director of the Francis Wayland Institute, and is prefaced by a likeness of Flynn.

Nineteenth-century Baptist minister Joseph Judson Taylor was an outspoken proponent of the literal interpretation of the Bible and the separation of church and state and opponent of evolution and modernism. He is best known, however, for being a stanch pacifist who was forced to resign his pastorate at the First Baptist Church of Savannah, Georgia in 1917 for vehemently opposing U.S. entry into World War I. His book The God of War traces the folly of war from ancient times to World War I. Taylor's views were considered by some of his fellow ministers to be treason in 1917, but he was vindicated after the war and, after becoming vice-president of the Southern Baptist Convention in 1922, succeeded in getting the Convention to pass a resolution condemning war. Although Taylor and his pacifism have been long forgotten, they are an antidote to the militaristic climate that exists throughout Christendom today.