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Joel Elowsky is Operations Manager for the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture.

For a fuller exposition of this topic, see Louis J. Swift, "The Early Fathers on War and Military Service" in Message of the Fathers of the Church, vol. 19 (Michael Glazier, Inc.: Wilmington, DE, 1983), from which much of the above material was taken.

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Christian History magazine, a Christianity Today sister publication, offers more information on the early church. Its next issue will focus on how the early church read the Bible.

Last year, Christianity Today Managing Editor Mark Galli (former editor of Christian History) wrote an article contesting the idea that the church was uniformly pacifist before Constantine's day.

For more on Christian views of war, see our War on Iraq full coverage area.

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