Word: lutheran
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...trademark of the great modern religious assemblies is the "observer" from another faith, peering friendly and fascinated at the proceedings and often heralding a closer relationship. It was the observers who last week gave the Helsinki meeting of the Lutheran World Federation its unique flavor and suggestiveness. On hand was the first delegation ever sent by the Vatican to a conference of a world Protestant organization. The presence of the Roman Catholic observers brought up a basic ecumenical question: Is there a weakening in the historic split between Rome and the original Protestant church...
...Lutheran churches have sprung up in almost all Latin American countries, have 862,000 members. Since the last federation assembly in 1957, Lutheran membership has tripled in Asia and Africa to 3,000,000. And the federation admitted the first Lutherans from the Soviet Union-the 750,000 communicants still living in Soviet Estonia and Latvia-over the objections of their churches in exile...
Recognizing that Lutherans cannot live by the 400-year-old Reformation alone, the assembly is slated to re-examine Martin Luther's doctrine of justification by faith alone. Luther proclaimed that Christ already had atoned for the sins of mankind; some of the federation's theological leaders believe that Lutheran churches are now straying too much toward the belief that good works make the good...
Weeks before the Munich convention opened, Julius Cardinal Döpfner and Lutheran Bishop Hermann Dietzfelbinger approved the publication of a broadside called "A Word to All Christians," which attacked Witness beliefs and urged homeowners not to rent rooms to the visitors. When Witness missionaries appeared on Munich streets to hawk the sect's publications, they were flanked by church-affiliated Boy Scouts, who rather unkindly passed out anti-Witness pamphlets...
...real life, Elke (pronounced ellkey) is the daughter of a Lutheran minister who died when she was 14, and her real surname is Schletz. Her schoolgirl nickname was Schluffi, which means "Sniffing Around." Raised near the university town of Erlangen, she had a classical education but changed her field to modern languages when she decided to become an interpreter rather than a teacher. To learn English, she went to London for seven months and worked as a domestic for $7 a week...