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By the 5th century, the Church had started to develop doctrines that allowed for Christian participation in battle, though this was limited by a requirement that the fighting must be undertaken to convert
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There is a Korean-American religious group called the Soldiers of Christ, which became the center of a 2023 murder case.
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with the emblematic Armour of God however remained very rare in the medieval period and only became prominent after the
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The metaphor has its origins in early Christianity of the Roman Empire, and gave rise to the contrasting term
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as the "idea of service to the church, with military connotations derived from crusading ideology and
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metaphor of military equipment standing for Christian virtues and on certain passages of the
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of weapons and a concept of knighthood that was grounded in religion. It became a theme in
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and later made even more explicit with the actual military expeditions of the
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of the armed nobility as defenders of the faith, first emphasized by
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with his various pieces of equipment identified with various
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Christian allegory based on New Testament military metaphors
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Michael Evans, "An Illustrated Fragment of Peraldus's
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can be traced back to the first century AD. The phrase
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Flemish Miles Christianus, 1586-1635 (British Museum)
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Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association
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