In 1917, a group of seventeen Anglican clergymen who served as military chaplains during WWI published a volume, The Church in the Furnace. Who were these seventeen men? What were their stories, both before and after the war and their contributions to the volume? Why did they write this book anyway? What did they think about their faith and war—and why do the varied answers they propose still matter to us today? These are just some of the questions that Timothy Larsen sets out to answer in his new book, The Fires of Moloch: Anglican Clergymen in the Furnace of World War One (Oxford University Press, 2025).
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Nadya Williams
Nadya Williams is the Books Editor at Mere Orthodoxy. She holds a PhD in Classics from Princeton University and is the author of Cultural Christians in the Early Church; Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity; and Christians Reading Classics (forthcoming Zondervan Academic, 2025). She and her husband Dan joyfully live and homeschool in Ashland, Ohio.
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