Word: lutheranism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Archbishop of Canterbury thought the report "completely masterly." But Bishop George K. A. Bell of Chicester, England led a group of delegates who thought it wishy-washy. West Germany's Evangelical Lutheran Bishop Hanns Lilje of Hannover sounded off against "trying to be friends with everybody." Also for a tougher document: West Germany's famed Pastor Martin Niemöller. At week's end the Central Committee had passed the report along to a subcommittee and was preparing for decisions on 1) a proposed merger with the 36-year-old International Missionary Council, made up of Protestant...
...many pious German devotees of Johann Sebastian Bach, the singing of the St. Thomas Church Choir in Leipzig, East Germany, is the voice of Holy Writ. The choir school, attached to Leipzig's famed Evangelical Lutheran Thomaskirche, proudly points to J. S. Bach's service as its cantor for 27 years (1723 to 1750), has long constituted itself chief guardian of his music. Last week the 80-boy choir made a sortie from behind the Iron Curtain. Occasion: the Bach Festival at Ansbach, West Germany. Critical verdict: St. Thomas' parade-drilled ten-to-18-year olds...
...Wyncote, Pa. When it came to talk of marriage, there was trouble-but not the kind a faithful moviegoer would expect. Industrialist Arnold J. Werner liked his daughter's college-boy suitor; the boy's family was the one to object. The reason, they said, was that Lutheran Werner was leading Leland away from his Roman Catholic faith...
...Circuit Court, Milwaukee County, the Catholic Cummingses said it with a $500,000 lawsuit against the Lutheran Werners. Werner and daughter Mary Louise, they said, had lured Leland away from his faith and his family; they had enticed him to Milwaukee in Werner's private plane, given him a $75-a-month allowance, promised him a $25,000-a-year job in the family ironworks. "Werner's influence," the suit contends, "destroyed the natural affection the son had for his parents" and deprived them of "their only hopes for solace, affection, companionship and comfort during their declining years...
Leland and Mary Louise, both 21 and planning to be married this week in a Lutheran church, called the suit a "malicious" attempt to block their marriage. He had thought about giving up his faith before he met Mary Louise, said Leland...