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Died. Eivind Berggrav, 74, retired Primate of Norway's State Lutheran Church (TIME Cover. Dec. 25. 1944), spiritual leader of World War 11 resistance against Vidkun Quisling and the Nazis, formerly a president of the World Council of Churches; in Oslo...
...After five months in the U.S. last year, Bishop Eivind Berggrav, retired Primate of Norway, wrote an ecclesiastical mash note to the U.S., published in the current issue of the U.S. fortnightly Christianity & Crisis. "To me, American church life seemed to be more attractive, more in contact with people in general than is the case in Europe. This may be the result of the warmth of your church atmosphere . . . The European churches consist of individuals, the American ones more of families." The clublike sociability of U.S. Protestant churches reminds Bishop Berggrav of "the social trend so often noticeable...
With regard to your cut of Bishop Berggrav in your issue of Sept. 13, may I point out that Holbein's portraits are not ruffed. Ruffs came in later, and are characteristic of the portraits by Frans Hals...
...common heritage of the forefathers . . . shall alone produce the desired reunion . . . The Holy Orthodox Church alone has preserved in full and intact 'the faith once delivered to the saints.' " But no one thought that this generally foreseen dissent changed the picture. Norway's Bishop Eivind Berggrav, ruffed like a Holbein portrait in starchy white, pointed his sermon at the "ecumaniacs" who looked for some kind of nonpapal Rome to be built in a day. "There are people," he said, "who simply get angry . . . because the churches are not prepared to unite now and on the spot...
High on the dais, coatless and perspiring in the muggy heat. Bishop Eivind Berggrav of Norway leaned to a colleague while Schlink was talking and got off a clerical crack. "The Word was made the ology and did not dwell among us," he whispered...