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PETER AND VERONICA, by Marilyn Sachs (Doubleday; $3.95). The pain and fun of a friendship-mostly conducted on roller skates-between Peter Wedemeyer (small, amiable, Jewish) and Veronica Ganz (big, bullying, Lutheran...
Export Trade. Most Danes seemingly agree-and accepted his legal proposal to abolish all restrictions. Now pornography is no longer an issue in Denmark: leaders of the Danish Lutheran Church have not bothered to take a stand on the Thestrup bill, newspapers do not dwell on it in detail, and a majority of parliamentary parties have given it their backing. Newsstands in tourist areas are still festooned with pictures of every pose imaginable. But this export market does not impress Denmark's most active pornographer, Leo Madsen, who publishes the mass-circulation Weekend Sex magazine. Says he ruefully: "Business...
Spiritual Prostitution. Another antiwar critic, Lutheran Pastor Richard John Neuhaus of New York City, charges that clerics in military service expose themselves to "spiritual prostitution." In his view, there is an unresolvable contradiction between Christianity's gospel of peace and a minister's participation in a war that a growing number of Americans regard as wasteful or immoral. In trying to resolve the contradiction, Neuhaus says, many chaplains simply arrange their values along military lines, like good soldiers. He would prefer to see military chaplains replaced by civilian clergy accredited to the armed forces like Red Cross personnel...
...problems with heresy is that its very existence depends upon an outdated concept of what faith is-adherence to a particular body of doctrine rather than an inner spiritual commitment. According to Lutheran Theologian Joseph Sittler of the University of Chicago, "Heresy is a workable notion when faith is identified with propositions, but it becomes a flexible notion when a distinction is made between the reality of faith and statements made about it." Catholic Theologian Eugene C. Bianchi of Emory University suggests that the whole notion of heresy rests on the presumption that doctrine is static rather than dynamic...
...Manhattan's Riverside Church to demand, among other things, that the church, located on the edge of Harlem, turn over 60% of its investment income to the conference. Two days later Forman posted the conference's "Black Manifesto" on the door of the headquarters of the Lutheran Church in America; the Lutherans' share of the reparations bill, he said, was $50 million. Finally, he appeared at the New York Archdiocesan chancery to demand $200,000,000 from U.S. Roman Catholics...