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...have a proclivity for equating feeling with decibels, but his playing is characterized by careful attention to rhythm and phrasing. Even his critics concede that he possesses one of the century's greatest organ-virtuoso techniques. Born in Princeton, Ill., where his mother was alto soloist in the Lutheran church and his father owned the local moviehouse and was the "best auctioneer the state of Illinois has ever seen," Fox began piano lessons at eight. A year later he discovered an old organ in a barn and taught himself to play, practicing up to 16 hours...
...church. But does that long-contested biblical verse in fact mean what Roman Catholics traditionally take it to mean? Was Peter the first Pope? Are his successors the ultimate earthly authority in Christendom? In a new study, Peter in the New Testament, an investigative group of eleven Roman Catholic, Lutheran and other Protestant scripture experts issue a cautious demurrer. The scholars agree that the controversial passage, along with many others in the New Testament, makes Peter one of the most prominent Apostles-but it does not therefore make him a Pope...
...study, to be published jointly by Augsburg Publishing House and Paulist Press in September, is a part of an eight-year-old, officially sanctioned dialogue between Lutherans and Roman Catholics over issues that divide the two communions. The talks have already produced documents on Lutheran and Roman Catholic approaches to the Nicene Creed, baptism, the Eucharist and priestly ministry, all of which show remarkable basic agreement. The study on Peter, along with an examination of the development of the papacy in early church history, will provide background for the next major document, on the primacy and authority of the Pope...
...this is fitting and proper for a housewife who helps manage a 175-acre farm in the bountiful Penns Valley not far from Harrisburg, Pa. (she also plays the organ at the Lutheran Church). But Mrs. Wise says she sometimes wakes up in the middle of the night and thinks: "My heavens, there are 2,000,000 teachers out there. Then I wonder about what 2,000,000 people could do if they had the right leadership." This, too, is fitting and proper, for Mrs. Wise has just assumed the presidency of the 1.4-mil-lion-member National Education Association...
Preus' insistence on this "doctrinal character" may also erode ecumenical relations with the more liberal Lutheran Church in America (3.1 million members) and the American Lutheran Church (2.5 million...