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Such dispensations are not easy to get -as Father Beck's experience shows. Born and raised a Lutheran, he studied at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, served a parish in Teaneck, N.J., for seven years. In 1954, Beck and his wife became Catholics. Convinced that he had a vocation to the priesthood, Beck went to Germany and in 1956 received permission to enter the seminary at Mainz. But before he could be ordained, Pope Pius XII told Beck in a 1957 interview, he would have to find a bishop who would promise to support him. Bishop Mark Carroll...
Perhaps the most consistently effective of these Daniels with doctorates is a rapid-fire minister of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod who in light-hearted moments used to sign himself "Marty Marty." A hard-traveling (20,-000 miles so far this year) graduate of Missouri's Concordia Seminary, the Rev. Dr. Martin Emil Marty, 35, is an associate editor of the Christian Century and founding pastor of the big Church of the Holy Spirit in Elk Grove Village, 111., a Chicago suburb.-His own literary productivity is positively staggering: in the past five years he has written more than...
Students do get practice. "The big word now is internship," says President Stuart Anderson of the Pacific School of Religion. Cambridge Episcopal requires its students to spend a summer interning in hospitals and prisons. Lutheran seminarians from Concordia in St. Louis visit general or mental hospitals weekly for lectures on practical psychology. William B. Abernethy, 23, of Union Theological, is typical of those who found some of their preconceptions shattered; when he conducted a Bible study class with a group of East Harlem housewives, he says, marveling, "These women would come up with insights more profound and incisive than...
...Lutheran minister in Minnesota, Hauge graduated from Moorhead. Minn.'s Concordia College (class of '35), got his doctorate in economics at Harvard, and taught at both Harvard and Princeton. He was an editorial writer for McGraw-Hill's Business Week when he joined the draft-Ike movement in 1951. After six years with Ike, Hauge was lured away from the White House in 1958 when ubiquitous Wall Streeter Sidney Weinberg. a partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co., persuaded him to become chairman of the finance committee at Manufacturers Trust Co. When Manufacturers merged with the Hanover Bank last...
...written six books (best known: 1959'S The Riddle of Roman Catholicism, which sold 42,000 copies), co-authored six others, produced more than 100 scholarly articles. He also serves as one of the religion editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. A graduate of the Missouri Synod's Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, he won his doctorate at Chicago at the age of 22, has established himself as an ecumenical-minded expert on church history. Pelikan, who styles himself as an "evangelical catholic" and "critical traditionalist," believes that the success of the ecumenical movement depends upon a proper understanding...