Word: lutheran
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...fight was unusual for the L.C.M.S., which is known for its familial German-American solidarity and its loyalty to traditional Lutheran doctrine. Indeed, in the Protestant spectrum, contestants on both sides of the L.C.M.S. battle are relatively conservative. The moderates simply prefer a degree of theological variety and a gradual opening up to other Lutheran denominations-the middle-of-the-road American Lutheran Church (2,600,000 members) and the more liberal Lutheran Church in America (3,100,000 members). The hard-line conservatives want to keep the L.C.M.S. theo logically exclusive and pure. But, as with earlier Christians, seemingly...
...Bible, evangelism v. social action, and a distrust of ecumenism v. an eagerness for church merger. U.S. Episcopalians felt the crunch of disagreement last fall (TIME, Nov. 2), Presbyterians and Methodists more recently. Nowhere is the clash currently more bitter than in the 3,000,000-member Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, whose biennial convention in Milwaukee last week boiled over into a savage debate over the future direction of the denomination...
Sometimes the church is not at fault. When young people began to come into the smoothly running, upper-middle-class congregation at La Jolla (Calif.) Lutheran Church, Pastor Charles Donhowe started evening meetings for them. Soon Donhowe had two congregations, the regular Sunday-at-11 variety and the new Christians in the evening. A minister for nine years, Donhowe was in effect converted by the youngsters to unstructured Christianity. He resigned and took his evening congregation with him. Some of his older parishioners joined the secession. Now known simply as "Bird Rock," they meet in Bird Rock Elementary School...
Niebuhr was a preacher's kid from Missouri who said that he got into Yale Divinity School because they were hard up for students; his degree was from Elmhurst (Ill.) College, a small, then unaccredited school run by his Lutheran denomination, the Evangelical Synod of North America, now part of the United Church of Christ. "I desired relevance rather than scholarship," he recalled and, rather than earn a doctorate, he plunged into an industrial parish in Detroit. His 13 years as pastor there honed his moral passion. After visiting a sick, unemployed Ford worker in 1927, he wrote bitterly...
...explicitly illustrated volume, scheduled for U.S. publication early this summer, has already sold 30,000 in a German edition published last year by an independent Lutheran firm there. It has become a standard sex-education text at all the Lutheran youth centers in West Germany. The author of the German edition, Protestant Physician Martin Goldstein, in fact developed the book in response to questions he encountered as a medical adviser to the Lutheran Youth Counseling Center in Düsseldorf. For the U.S. edition, Yale Research Fellow Erwin J. Haeberle has rewritten the text to reflect U.S. sex laws...