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22344
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English
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Chastisement of the Nations, 1914-45
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Window of Faith : Latter-day Saint Perspectives on World History
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Provo, UT
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Religious Studies Center, BYU
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427-446
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"The appalling devastation and suffering resulting from warfare and economic collapse not only made Christ's teachings more relevant; they lent a new urgency to questions regarding God's relationship to war, to evil, and to human suffering. Church leaders blamed most of the world's woes upon human choice abetted by satanic influence. Although calamities represented divine judgment and chastisement in the sense that they inevitably flowed from sin, and although God had foreseen war and economic collapse, He took no pleasure in calamity and was not its author. Instead, God embodied perfect love, and the calamities of war and depression were attributable to human agency." [From author's conclusion]