In his chapter, he argued that one of the primary functions of the Christian faith was to generate opposition to war.
In 1939, Fairbairn drafted a manifesto entitled Witness Against War, ultimately signed by over 150 United Churchmen.
[1] Regarding his contributions to Christian pacifism: "His pacifist argument incorporated the socialist analysis of Western capitalism as the "war system", a system which compelled otherwise honorable men to act unscrupulously and which made future war inevitable.
Since he saw it as the root cause of conflict between nations as well as between classes, he believed the only alternative was a complete social revolution according to the teachings of Christ....
In his later search for realistic pacifist solutions he came to view Christian cooperative communities as the true revolutionary cells of a new social order.