Kirby Page
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Kirby Page was an American Disciples of Christ minister, an author, and a peace activist. According to Gaustad
and Noll's A Documentary History of Religion in America, after World War I
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Edwin Gaustad
Edwin Scott Gaustad was a Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside.He achieved fame with his study of the genealogy of religion in the United States, Historical atlas of religion in America...
and Noll's A Documentary History of Religion in America, after World War I
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
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the sentiment for peace spread ever more widely throughout American society,[and] minister after minister, church after church, lined up to issue a renunciation of war. War was "utterly destructive," entirely "nefarious," hopelessly "archaic," and totally "incompatible with the teaching and example of our Lord Jesus Christ." A Disciples of Christ minister, Kirby Page (1890-1957), proved a most effective and vigorous leader in rallying the churches behind the cause for peace. Peace was his passion, a passion manifest in hundreds of lectures and magazine articles (he even edited the important pacifist organ, The World TomorrowThe World Tomorrow (magazine)The World Tomorrow: A journal looking toward a Christian world was an American political magazine, founded by the pacifist organization Fellowship of Reconciliation and published in New York City by FOR's Fellowship Press at 108 Lexington Avenue.-Main Editors:The World Tomorrow seems to have had...
, from 1926 to 1934) and more than two dozen books whose impact reached far beyond the borders of the United States. (Vol 2, pp. 134-135)
Selected bibliography
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- - republished in 1970 by Books for Libraries Press, ISBN 0836918037
- - republished in 2007 by Brewster Press, ISBN 9781406740042, ISBN 1406740047 (159 pages)