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Protestantism's most promising theological pathfinders: ∙JAROSLAV JAN PELIKAN JR., 38, Professor of historical theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Son and grandson of Lutheran ministers, prolific "Jary" Pelikan has written six books (best known: 1959'S The Riddle of Roman Catholicism, which sold 42,000 copies), co-authored six others, produced more than 100 scholarly articles. He also serves as one of the religion editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. A graduate of the Missouri Synod's Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, he won his doctorate at Chicago...
...Gettysburg, Civil War Buff Karl Barth, 76, astonished his guides with a fusillade of little-known facts. Led to the spot where the first large body of Confederate troops had deployed, the Swiss theologian smiled knowingly, "Yes, that was [Major General Henry] Heth's group." Told that a Lutheran seminary in which he was lunching had been used as a Union observation post, he nonchalantly rattled off the name of Major General John Buford as the post's commander. Moving south, Barth paused on a battlefield near Richmond. Va., raised a century-old Yankee musket to his shoulder...
Several members of the Norwegian Parliament received scrawled notes threatening death if they voted to join the Common Market; religious extremists railed against the possibility of a Catholic influx from Western Europe into Lutheran Norway. But after four days of sober debate, ending in a solid 113-37 vote of approval, Norway last week formally applied for full membership in the thriving six-nation economic community...
...them, although in the suburbs they are more often housed in old churches bought from mainstream denominations, or in simple (and cheap) concrete-block structures. Last month the Rev. Lyle Schaller, director of the Regional Church Planning Office in northeastern Ohio (which represents twelve Protestant denominations), reported in The Lutheran magazine on a survey of new church construction near Cleveland. In the suburban triangle formed by Cleveland, Lorain and Elyria, no fewer than eleven of the 15 new congregations that have been organized since 1955 are Bible-preaching fundamentalist groups...
...HAROLD E. SCHROEDER The Ford Road American Lutheran Church Dearborn, Mich...