Nineteen-eighteen saw the formation of the world's first independent air force, and the inauguration of the first independent chaplaincy organisation devoted to military aviation. However, the neglected creation of the Chaplains' Branch of the Royal Air Force (RAF) towards the end of the First World War represents far more than just a minor footnote in the institutional history of Britain's armed forces. The circumstances of its creation, which occurred just as the German sociologist Max Weber was identifying scientific progress as driving the ineluctable “disenchantment of the world,” not only belied this famous sociological maxim in the highly technological and supremely modern context of aerial warfare but also demonstrated the competence of Anglican chaplaincy methods and the resilience of British ‘“Christendom” in the context of a war which is widely perceived as having exposed and exacerbated the weaknesses of both.

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英国圣公会和飞行员：第一次世界大战和皇家空军牧师被遗忘的起源

19-18 见证了世界上第一支独立空军的形成，以及第一个致力于军用航空的独立牧师组织的成立。然而，英国皇家空军 (RAF) 牧师分支在第一次世界大战结束时被忽视的创建远远不仅仅是英国武装部队机构历史上的一个小注脚。它的创建环境，恰逢德国社会学家马克斯·韦伯（Max Weber）将科学进步视为推动不可避免的“世界的幻灭，