“You Have Shed Much Blood, and Waged Great Wars”: Killing, Bloodguilt, and Combat Stress
Are all warriors who have killed somehow polluted and prevented from an intimate relationship with God? This essay seeks to answer this question both affirmatively and negatively by correlating biblical literature, psychology, and the experience of veterans. Although killing in war defiles soldiers...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Routledge
2008
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Journal of religion, disability & health
Year: 2008, Volume: 12, Issue: 3, Pages: 236-250 |
Further subjects: | B
Killing
B Bloodguilt B Religion B ritual purity B Stress |
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