Editing Just war theory (section)

==== First World War ====
At the beginning of the [[First World War]], a group of theologians in Germany published a manifesto that sought to justify the actions of the German government. At the British government's request, [[Randall Davidson]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]], took the lead in collaborating with a large number of other religious leaders, including some with whom he had differed in the past, to write a rebuttal of the Germans' contentions. Both German and British theologians based themselves on the just war theory, each group seeking to prove that it applied to the war waged by its own side.<ref>Mews, Stuart. "Davidson, Randall Thomas, Baron Davidson of Lambeth (1848–1930), Archbishop of Canterbury", [[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]], [[Oxford University Press]], 2011.</ref>