Word: lutheranism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...workday afternoon the U. S. Senate took a recess until the next morning. The conflagration which had destroyed "Trail's End" had also wiped out the Farmer-Labor Party in the House of Representatives. For Mr. Kvale was not only a minister of the Lutheran Gospel but a member of Congress. He was the Congressman who reached Washington by defeating the once-famed Andrew John Volstead for reelection...
...discourse centred on two main Lutheran desires: 1) World unity among Lutherans; 2) A revival and fostering of the spirit of Martin Luther, to be engendered chiefly by intensive reading and teaching of Luther's Small Catechism...
...Wittenberg, such a seat would be historically most fitting. But in Scandinavia more than in Germany has Lutheranism flowered. The Archbishop could not help but think and hope thai Upsala, his home and the seat of Sweden's archbishopric, might some day be chosen as capital of Lutheranism. There, where once stood a glittering heathen temple, now stands as fine a Lutheran Cathedral as there is in the world, just west of where students in white velvet caps bordered in black stroll through the halls of the Oxford, the Heidelberg, the Sorbonne of Scandinavia, Upsala University...
Pregnant criticism of modern Christianity was expressed by Dr. Frederick H. Knubel of Manhattan, president of the United Lutheran Church in America. Said he: "The three tendencies which menace the growth of the Church throughout the world are first, syncretism, or the attempt to reconcile Christianity to other religious bodies, as, for instance, Mohammedanism, with which it is irreconcilably at variance; second, secularism, or the onslaught of worldly philosophies upon the Church and its teachings; and third, the social gospel or social Christianity which attempts to enforce its teachings through coercion upon a State or Nation...
Most famed U. S. delegate to the convention was the Rev. Dr. John Alfred Morehead, executive director of the American National Lutheran Council, often referred to in Europe as "one of America's most outstanding churchmen...