Word: lutheran
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very satisfying. Norway did not say Nei to Europe; Norway said Nei to EEC. which makes a great difference. In the article, Norwegian anti-Marketeers were described as a group of diverse elements, upset farmers and selfish fishermen "supported by a diffuse alliance of Maoist youth, Lutheran fundamentalists, mildly leftist university professors," etc. This bunch was reported to "smash windows" and "rip radio aerials from cars bearing 'Yes to EEC' bumper stickers." The only argument this bunch was credited with was that "EEC membership would allow 'dirty Italians' to steal Norwegian jobs and 'rich Germans...
...agencies that specialize in resettling East European refugees-the American Fund for Czechoslovak Refugees and the Tolstoy Foundation-are each placing 100 Ugandans. The other 800 are equally divided among the United States Catholic Conference, the Lutheran Council, the Church World Service, United HIAS Service (Jewish) and the International Rescue Committee...
...clinical precision. He tended to sentimentalize and romanticize women, he says, until he became close to his mother in the months before her death two years ago. Only through intimate talks with her did he learn that she had been smothered in her role as the wife of a Lutheran minister. He also came to understand "the division of sex roles in the middle-class home-the woman's martyrdom, the man's authority. This pattern of sweeping things under the rug, never quarreling, never talking things out, smothering unpleasantness...
...agriculture alive, especially in its hostile northern reaches; fishermen feared competition in their inshore waters from strong British and West German fleets; and environmentalists were concerned that EEC development policies would destroy Norway's natural beauty. They were supported by a diffuse alliance of Maoist youth, Lutheran fundamentalists, mildly leftist university professors, and nationalists determined to retain the independence that Norway acquired from Sweden only 67 years...
President Tietjen mounted his own counterattack, delivering to all Synod pastors a 35-page document that declared the fact-finding committee's report "unfair," "unreliable," "untrue," "unscriptural" and "un-Lutheran." Tietjen quoted several faculty members who enumerated the ways in which they felt they had been misunderstood or quoted out of context by the fact-finding committee. While defending the use of modern methods of biblical criticism (rejected by Preus), the faculty argued that their cautious use of these methods at Concordia does not jeopardize basic Lutheran beliefs. What is in jeopardy, Tietjen believes, is the very existence...