Word: lutheranism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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EVERY cover portrait by Artist Henry Koerner has as byproduct a series of preliminary ink sketches, such as the adjoining one showing Dr. Franklin Clark Fry wading through heavy traffic on Manhattan's East 36th Street near the Lutheran Church House. Dr. Fry remembers it vividly because "I was blocking traffic and everybody in New York City seemed to be honking at me." The final portrait shows Dr. Fry in the pulpit of Manhattan's Holy Trinity Lutheran Church at 65th Street and Central Park West. For the story of one of Protestantism's most influential leaders...
...ecumenical movement as 1) chairman of the policymaking Central and Executive Committees of the World Council of Churches, and 2) member of the Policy and Strategy Committee of the National Council of Churches. At the same time, he is a force in Lutheranism as 1) president (since 1944) of the United Lutheran Church in America, 2) member of the Executive Committee of the National Lutheran Council, and 3) first American ever elected president of the 50-million-member Lutheran World Federation. All these titles illustrate one fact: of all the denominations in the U.S., Lutheranism is experiencing the most dramatic...
...pastorate for almost 14 years, is known as the best man with a grease gun in the business. He has a phenomenal memory (which serves him well on a dais or a Double-Crostic), a lawyer's avidity for meticulous briefing, and relentless persistence. Elected president of Lutheran World Relief after World War II, he ranged Europe on a mammoth repair job that was just as much spiritual as material. "It wasn't just a question of relief," he explains. "Danish and Norwegian Lutherans hated German Lutherans; they felt contempt for Swedish Lutherans. No one would talk...
...tendency to think together has been growing in Lutheranism during the past decade. For generations, most U.S. Lutherans were ethnically centered, holding their services in German or Dutch or Scandinavian, and seeing to it that their children grew in the faith and folkways of their fathers. This exclusive attitude put Lutheranism in a special position among U.S. Protestants. It protected the Lutheran churches from the excessive emotion in the wave of revivalism that swept America in the late 19th century. As for the theological liberalism of the early 20th century, it barely touched the Lutherans at all. But the Lutherans...
...astronomer ("Odd," says Wernher von Braun, "but few mothers are"), who pointed out to him the planets and constellations in Prussia's clear night skies. "For my confirmation," says Wernher von Braun, "I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift...