ABSTRACT
The primary ground for a distinctive Christian understanding of any situation is the revelation of God in Jesus Christ. In a word, Christ crucified can appear as the embodiment of God's power and God's wisdom, the crucial and unique revelation of God, only to those who actually are moved by him to religious faith and who find that faith actually an enduring condition of new insight, devotion, and regenerate life. Faith in and love for the God and Father of Jesus Christ is an ultimate inner standard, real though not external, to which the believer's life at every moment and in every decision is amenable. God's relation to the war is defined in broad terms by His essential unitary activity as Creator, Redeemer, Life-Giver. Service to one's country, or to one's church, for example, seems surely right, and the ideal of patriotism or of church loyalty that moves us in our most devoted moments seems wholly good.
