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...Yale's Lutheran Historian Jaroslav Pelikan, the Reformation was a "tragic necessity"-tragic in that it shattered the unity of Christendom, necessary in that it cleansed the church and restored man's faith in God to its Scriptural roots. It is equally true that the Reformation is an unrealized hope and unfinished ideal. Today, says Dr. Wilhelm Pauck of Union Theological Seminary, "one could characterize the spirit of our epoch as pre-Reformation. The old order is in a process of dissolution, but there is also a great positive religious expectancy...
...Immanuel Lutheran Church...
...Catholic U., insists that authors were picked solely for their knowledgeability rather than for their faith. The article on Jewish theological education, for example, was written by Rabbi Louis Finkelstein, chancellor of Jewish Theological Seminary, while Editor Erwin Canham of the Christian Science Monitor wrote about Christian Science. Lutheran Theologian Jaroslav Pelikan of Yale served as consultant for the articles on Protestantism, which display a new sympathy for once-deprecated figures like Calvin and Luther...
...amendment to Wisconsin's constitution, permitting the use of public funds to transport private-school students, has cleared the legislature's lower house. In Minnesota, where Catholics have tried futilely for years to win passage of a bussing-aid bill, new Republican Governor Harold Le Vander, a Lutheran, announced that he might favor such a proposal; already under debate in the state legislature is a measure that would authorize aid to public schools offering part-time classes to parochial students. New Jersey's legislature is considering a bill under which parochial pupils would be bussed at state...
...beginning of his excommunication by Rome; four years later, Pope Leo X drummed the great heretic out of the church. Now two ecumenically minded men from St. Louis have asked Pope Paul VI if it isn't time to end the grudge. Wrote the Rev. Walter Riess, a Lutheran minister, and Edward Meiners, a Catholic layman: "Your lifting of his excommunication would voice to all Protestants a fresh expression of your openness to Christian unity." The fact is that the Vatican's Secretariat for Christian Unity has already formed a working committee with the Lutheran World Federation...