ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book proposes the churches' passion for war and clarified the way that the military chaplains tried to realise the church's high hopes at the front. It suggests answers through a comparative approach, looks at differences and similarities between the French Catholic, British Anglican and German Protestant interpretations of the church's wartime role. The book offers some thought on the church in society and the relation between church and nation. It presents several examples of decisions by state and military leaders concerning the work of the chaplains that were certainly not in the interest of the church. The book discusses that war was an unsettling experience for most of the chaplains. The relation between church and state had a profound impact on how the church perceived its wartime role and, in the second place, how this wartime role mate-rialised during the conflict.
