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...grace through faith alone-is as old as Paul, but Luther's particular framing of it came precisely at the right moment. A few decades earlier, suggests Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, president of the Lutheran Church in America, Luther the rebel might have gone the way of Jan Hus or Savonarola, who were burned at the stake before their ideas could gain momentum. And by the end of the 16th century, spiritual renewal of the church might have been achieved from within, perhaps by that charismatic figure of Rome's Counter Reformation, Ignatius Loyola...
...Mancha. NBC's Frontiers of Faith will soon undertake a twelve-part series on modern ethics-including one program called "The Manly Art of Seduction," inspired by Hugh Hefner's Playboy philosophy. ABC's Directions offered a highly praised dramatization of the martyrdom of Jan Hus, the 15th century Bohemian reformer. Says Pamela Ilott, director of religious programming for CBS: "Our problem is not in coming up with new ideas but in finding enough Sundays to express them...
...Danish town of Odense, all the signposts carry an extra arm. It points the way to Andersens Hus, where in 1805 an ugly duckling named Hans Christian Andersen was born. The world today needs no introduction to this cobbler's son whose fairy stories, published in dozens of tongues, will last as long as there are children to hear them. Andersen did not write them for children, or for money or fame, although the stories brought him both. He wrote them for himself, and Novelist Monica Stirling's tender biography tells...
...Sellers market. In Panther, she kept a straight face while she slammed the door on the nose of her cuckolded husband. When he asked how she could save enough from her house keeping money to buy mink coats, she replied airily: "It isn't easy." Her hus band bought the explanation, and so did happy Panther fans...
...that were delivered before the council. Speaking from 14 years' experience as a prisoner of Communism, Czechoslovakia's Josef Cardinal Beran suggested that the church is suffering today in expiation for its past sins against religious liberty-such as the burning of the 15th century heretic, Jan Hus. And Belgian Bishop Emile De Smedt helped calm conservative fears by arguing that just as other council actions had gone well beyond earlier church teachings, the statement on liberty was a necessary way for the church to advance with the times...