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  "title": "Quaker non-resistance makes a stronger claim than clerical exemption",
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      "exact": "The Quakers (we were told) were the only characteristic Christians",
      "start": 1694,
      "end": 1760,
      "prefix": "that Richard Coeur de Lion did. ",
      "suffix": "; and yet the massacres of Cromw",
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  "body_markdown": "The Quaker declaration to Charles II, dated 1660 in *Quaker faith & practice* 24.04, rejects outward warfare for any purpose. It grounds that rejection in the unchanging spirit of Christ, which cannot forbid war at one moment and authorize it at another. The declaration therefore articulates a principled Christian objection to war, rather than mere timidity or an exemption for a particular vocation. [The corporate testimony](https://qfp.quaker.org.uk/passage/24-04/), inspected in the online fifth edition.\n\nThis matters to the logic of Chesterton's catalogue. Christians who prohibit war and Christians who wage it can disagree about what Christianity requires. Their coexistence does not by itself make a critic self-contradictory: a critic might distinguish a professed precept from its violation, or one Christian community from another. Chesterton's sharper allegation—that the same sceptics alternately treated both extremes as Christianity's defining expression—would require their actual words. His unnamed agnostic manual is not identified here.",
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      "locator": "Declaration to Charles II, dated 1660 by the edition; first two paragraphs",
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      "title": "The corporate testimony"
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    "This is the modern official excerpt of the declaration, not inspection of its original printed pamphlet.",
    "No particular sceptic's pamphlet has been established as the target."
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        "approach": "Biblical references",
        "question": "Which Gospel sayings underlie the other cheek, and what does their immediate context establish?"
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        "approach": "Theological contextualization",
        "question": "How can clerical abstention from combat coexist with a Christian justification of war?"
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        "approach": "Interlocutors and historical debates",
        "question": "What does the Quaker peace declaration actually claim, and how does it qualify the apparent contradiction?"
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