Word: lutherane
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...admonition to the Corinthian women, St. Paul was merely applying Jewish practice to new Christian congregations. But in the 19 centuries since, many Christian churches have followed the Pauline exhortation as if it were divine law. Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, the Anglican Communion and Lutheran churches have until now been especially slow to remove regulations barring women from a full role in the ministry...
...Episcopalians seem at last to be willing to lower some of their own barriers; last week their General Convention approved the ordination of women deacons (see following story). U.S. Lutherans are removing restrictions against women in the ministry even more rapidly. Last June in Minneapolis, the liberal-leaning Lutheran Church in America became the first U.S. Lutheran body to announce that it would ordain women ministers. Late last week the moderate American Lutheran Church, at its own convention in Texas, did likewise. Indeed, the World Council of Churches recently reported that 70 denominations around the world have admitted women...
Hambro is descended from an old Jewish family that came to Norway centuries ago. but he is a Lutheran. He is distantly related to the founders of Hambros Bank in London. His wife Elizabeth, 54, whom he met in France, is the granddaughter of Charles Darwin. They have four grown children...
...Bach soprano. She has a clear, pure voice, without any of the excess floridity or overblown style which is fatal in a Bach performance. Miss Valente and the orchestra gave a highly correct interpretation of the work, yet no one devoid of feeling. The work, originally composed for the Lutheran services on the fifteenth Sunday after Trinity, contains two elaborate trumpet solos, which Jeffrey Stern handled unusually well...
...intercommunion. One is a broadened, more flexible understanding of the Eucharist among many Catholic and Protestant theologians. In 1967, an Anglican-Roman Catholic study group produced a statement indicating substantial agreement on the Eucharist. Later the same year, in an important but little-noticed move, Roman Catholics and Lutherans in the U.S. issued a scholarly, 200-page book on the Eucharist that ended with a remarkable ten-page statement of consensus. Father George H. Tavard, a French-born scholar involved in the Lutheran-Catholic talks, thinks there is already enough consensus among Lutherans and Catholics today for Lutheran orders...