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...doctrine of justification by faith alone was the keystone of the Reformation. Although modified in various ways by Calvinists and Anabaptists, justification by faith was accepted by every Protestant church. In the earliest Reformation confessions, Lutheran Theologian Werner Elert sums up, justification is "the nucleus; in the later ones it is the central point; in the most recent ones it is the assumption that no longer can be called into question." But at Helsinki, justification and its meaning for modern man came in for some severe questioning. "It is an open secret," charged Dr. Gerhard Gloege of Bonn University, "that...
...Federation statement on justification, is the plain fact that even after four centuries, justification by faith alone is only vaguely comprehensible to millions. Another is that downgrading works seems less acceptable than ever to self-justifying, activist modern man. A third and more serious challenge to traditional Lutheran thinking came from the Federation's Commission on Theology: modern Biblical study makes it clear that justification is not, as Luther thought, the dominating theme of the New Testament...
Nondefinition. Redefinition, when and if it is done, will have to come out of what some puzzled outsiders regard as nondefinition. Anglicans proudly regard their faith as a middle way between the rigidities of Rome and the Reformation, a unique and vital bridge between Protestantism and historical Catholicism. But Lutheran Theologian Einar Molland describes Anglicanism as "the most elastic church in Christendom"-and with some justice. The essential Lutheran faith is contained in the Augsburg Confession of 1530; the Church of England's 39 Articles, far from being an authorized confession of the faith, are mentally rejected in whole...
...catholic and apostolic church in Rome. In a report to the assembly, the federation's commission on theology reported that "we cannot today casually dismiss the theological teaching of the Roman Church as patently false, unbiblical and unevangelical." Said Franklin Clark Fry, outgoing president of the federation: "Lutheran churches are prepared in spirit to reach out to brethren everywhere in a search for the fuller oneness of all who call Christ Lord in the midst of a hostile world...
...time he could stand up in his crib. To amuse him, his parents put a tall phonograph and a stack of symphony records within reach, and Baby Dunn would change the records. At the age of twelve, he was playing the organ at the regular services at the Third Lutheran Church in Baltimore; at 16, he was conducting the choir at the Episcopal Cathedral. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1960 as conductor of the 29-year-old choral society called the Cantata Singers, and his Philharmonic Hall debut with the Festival Orchestra, performing the Brandenburg concertos...