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...Study of Generations (Augsburg Publishing House of Minneapolis; $ 12.50), the new study is probably the most exhaustive ever made of an American denomination and seems assured of becoming a classic. It cost $425,000, took 2½ years to complete, and drew on a nationwide sample of 4,745 Lutherans between the ages of 15 and 65, representing the three major Lutheran denominations: the Lutheran Church in America, the American Lutheran Church and the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. In all, the lengthy questionnaires answered by the respondents produced some 7,000,000 pieces of information. The four researchers who compiled...
...most provocative sections of the study deal with what the authors call "misbelief"-various Lutheran attitudes that seem to be responsible for what they regard as serious Lutheran faults. In a much-publicized 1966 work, Christian Beliefs and Anti-Semitism, Sociologists Charles Clock and Rodney Stark maintained that orthodox Christian beliefs-measured by such doctrines as miracles, life after death and a personal evil force-lead circuitously to antiSemitism. The Lutheran survey, say its authors, shows to the contrary that Christian orthodoxy and anti-Semitism are not related, but that prejudice, including antiSemitism, is clearly linked to various kinds...
...Lutheran investigators say that Glock and Stark did not use correct standards for Christian orthodoxy, since belief in miracles, in life after death and a personal evil spirit is common to many religions. Instead, the Minneapolis researchers used a larger set of indices to define the "heart of Lutheran piety." These include a definite belief in a transcendent order of being (encompassing life after death and the miraculous) but centered strongly on a loving God who provides for man through the saving grace of Jesus Christ. This "Gospel-oriented" orthodoxy, as the authors call it, apparently produces greater compassion toward...
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Other Christians decided, on their behalf, that meekness had its limits. A small group called the National Committee for Amish Religious Freedom -including among its members a Roman Catholic, a Lutheran and some sympathetic ex-Amish-took up the case. Last week in the Supreme Court, they won a significant Constitutional victory. In a 7-0 decision, the court upheld a 1971 Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling that the state's compulsory-education law violated the Amish right to religious freedom. Justice William O. Douglas filed a partial dissent because two of the three children had not been consulted...