Peace people : a history of peace activities in New Zealand / Elsie Locke.

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The Anglican Church in New Zealand: a History. By W. P. Morrell. Pp. xiv + 278. Dunedin: Anglican Church of the Province of New Zealand, 1973. $4.85.

The Horrors We Bless: Rethinking the Just-War Legacy; War, Peace, and God: Rethinking the Just-War Tradition

The New Zealand Student Christian Movement, 1896-1936

This thesis is an interpretation of the history and character of the Anglican Pacifist Fellowship in New Zealand (NZAPF). It focuses on accounting for the limited growth and influence of the Fellowship upon New Zealand’s largest Christian denomination, and on the continuing marginality of the pacifist position. Throughout its history, the organisation has sought to convince others within the Anglican Church that an absolutist, politically engaged and non-anarchistic pacifism is the truest Christian response to the problem of modern warfare. This has been attempted primarily through efforts at education aimed at both clergy and laity. The thesis argues that the NZAPF has been characterised by a commitment to absolute doctrinaire pacifism, despite ongoing tensions between this position and more pragmatic considerations. Overall, the NZAPF attracted only a small group of members throughout its history, and it exerted a limited demonstrable influence on the Anglican Church. This thesis analyses the reasons for this, focusing especially on those factors which arose from the nature of the NZAPF itself, the character of its pacifism, and the relationship between the NZAPF and its primary target audience, the Anglican Church in New Zealand. The research is based on literature and correspondence from the NZAPF as well as personal communication with extant members, where this was feasible. It additionally draws on a range of relevant secondary literature on Christian pacifism, and the history of the Anglican Church and the peace movement in New Zealand.

Zane Mather

Papers

“To Leaven the Lump”:A Critical History of the Anglican Pacifist Fellowshipin New Zealand