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...opinion has changed is demonstrated by the New Republic with a symposium of three experts: Congregationalist John C. Bennett, dean of Manhattan's Interdenominational Union Theological Seminary; Unitarian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., professor emeritus of history at Harvard and Pulitzer-prize-winning author (The Age of Jackson); Missouri Synod Lutheran Jaroslav Pelikan, associate professor of historical theology at the University of Chicago...
Brushing aside all such details, Conservative Lutheran Pelikan gives his answer in the form of a blast at the questions themselves. They are, says he, symptoms of a kind of militant, secular liberalism that would homogenize religion in the U.S. The questions indicate a confusion that identifies " 'the American way of life' as a religion, the national temple under whose broad roof various shrines -Protestant, Jewish, Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox-may be permitted to worship so long as they acknowledge themselves to be sects or parties within the one state Shinto...
...debate during the past decade or so. Mainly among clergymen is the capital-punishment issue argued on moral-religious grounds. The Roman Catholic Church defends society's right to take a criminal's life as an act of collective self-defense, and a spokesman of the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod says that "the Bible seems to permit the possibility of capital punishment." Several of the other religious groups in the U.S. have taken stands against capital punishment: the Methodist Church, the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., the Protestant Episcopal Church, the American Baptist Convention, the Central Conference...
Reported Hoyer: at a "theological consultation" of "the church and Judaism" held last year by delegates from Lutheran and other Protestant bodies, it was decided that the time is "right" for an intensive effort toward the "evangelization of the Jews." This, he said, is a Christian duty-as "instruments of the Holy Spir't, we must persistently evangelize." If the laborers in this vineyard are few, "this is true only because we have segregated Jewish people from the rest of the people in our mission thinking...
...trip to Israel last summer, said Lutheran Hoyer, "we pointed out that as far as the Christian Church is concerned, we have no alternative but to bring the Gospel to the Jewish people and to all others; to neglect them or to leave them out is to discriminate against them. We were pleased to note that, when thus presented, this position was graciously accepted in every case...