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...monastic Divine Office in English. U.S. Methodist deaconesses, on the other hand, take no vows, dress in the latest fashions (if they care to), follow no rule, and work at such chores as teaching Sunday school and visiting the sick. Coming somewhere in between are the majority of Lutheran and Reformed deaconesses: most wear some sort of distinctive garb halfway between that of a nurse and a nun, promise to remain single as long as they are in the service of the church, and in their life strike a balance between prayer and service...
Within the Anglican Communion, the Rome-admiring Oxford movement led, in mid-19th century, to a revival of both monks and nuns. The modern deaconess movement began with the Rev. Theodor Fliedner (1800-64), pastor of a Lutheran parish in the German town of Kaisers-werth. Inspired in part by the Roman Catholic order of nursing sisters established by France's St. Vincent de Paul, Fliedner in 1836 drew up plans for a Protestant Association of Christian Nursing; by 1849 he had brought Lutheran deaconesses to France, Britain...
Such ideas and attitudes give Rahner's works a powerful ecumenical appeal. "Rahner thinks in a way that transcends confessional differences," says Yale's Lutheran Theologian George Lindbeck, an observer at the council. "Most of the time when I read Rahner I'm not conscious that I'm reading a Roman Catholic." As his enemies see Rahner, there are times when he does not even read like a Christian, for he asks paradoxical questions about even the basic assumptions of the faith. "Is God dead?" he sometimes asks his students, in a jolting-challenge to their...
...Boston has the poorest record of any major city in the integration of Negroes into the life of city," Olivia Stokes, an executive in the Massachusetts Council of Churches, asserted last night at the University Lutheran Church...
...continue to ordain known pre-psychotics and schizophrenics," says the Rev. J. Victor Benson, the Lutherans' secretary for psychological services. At a Lutheran-sponsored conference in New York last week, psychologists and psychiatrists from other church bodies agreed with Benson that psychological testing is a valuable tool for assessing future ministers. And whatever mental illness is revealed can be treated by "a competent Christian psychiatrist," or even turned to useful ministerial ends...