Word: lutheranism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about Wagner Sr.'s Lutheran grandfather and his inked-in yarmulke is a nice piece of political "skullcapduggery...
Benander hopes the experiment will allow him to engage more fully in Dudley activities. He is co-chairman of the PBH Social Service committee, and vice-president of the Lutheran Students' Association...
...race, when the Republicans nominated a distinguished Jew, George Z. Medalie, to run against his father. A Brooklyn Democratic leader feared for his heavily Jewish district-but he was equal to the occasion. He dug around until he found a picture of the Senator's German grandfather, a Lutheran minister whose full beard strongly suggested a rabbinical calling. A yarmulke (skull cap) was easily inked in; the picture received wide distribution among the district's Jewish voters. Then the district leader spread the word that Medalie was an Italian. Senator Robert Wagner carried the district-overwhelmingly...
...seminaries Lutheran Rudolf Bultmann is best known as one of the founders of "form criticism," the widely accepted method of analyzing the Bible in terms of the forms-homilies, didactic methods, storytelling devices-used by those who wrote down and compiled the Gospels. But in 1941 Professor Bultmann, then in the chair of New Testament studies at the University of Marburg (he retired five years ago), published a magazine article that since then has grown into continental theology's biggest controversy and coined its fightingest word...
...most experienced Protestant collaborators with a Communist regime, Czech Theologian Joseph L. Hromadka of Prague, called upon the World Council "to combat the petrified notions, prejudices, self-isolation and inner estrangement that prevail in both East and West." De-estrangement is already well under way: United Lutheran Franklin Clark Fry of New York announced that the Russian Orthodox Moscow Patriarchate was ready to arrange a conference some time next winter with representatives of the World Council...