Word: lutheranism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chamber. Wood, which the Finns call "green gold," is used exuberantly in the playful trusses in the roof and with caressing respect in the solid red pine furniture specially designed by Aalto for the interiors. Aalto can also be intensely practical, as he is in his design for the Lutheran Church at Vuoksenniska, finished earlier this year. Knowing the problems of funerals during the hot Finnish summers, he installed a refrigerator with sliding shelves in the basement mortuary...
...sympathies, chiefly with More and Erasmus, but he is sure to indicate that he is speaking "extra-historically." Gilmore probably speaks for the vast majority of the Faculty when he says, "I don't think anyone should give a course in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences qua Lutheran or qua Catholic...
...Lord Jesus Christ I forgive thee thy sins in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Go in peace."† Despite Luther; the practice of confession became increasingly stereotyped, was finally abandoned in the 17th century. Last week its revival was a major topic in Lutheran Germany. The occasion was this year's Kirchentag in Munich (TIME, Aug. 24), where no fewer than 2,000 Protestants went to confession in the two churches designated for the purpose. Says Pastor Hans Jacob of Bensheim, who heard many of them: "For 90% of them, confession...
...moviemakers did not have long to wait for an example. No sooner was Augustana Lutheran Heimrich's charge made public than up stepped the Rev. H. K. Rasbach, American Lutheran and a member of the Film Board Committee, to say: "It is decidedly unChristian, after a man has put millions of dollars into a picture, to tell people not to see it. We want the industry to police itself." To that, Hollywood said a loud "Amen," and waited to see what happens next...
...Protestant disparity and elasticity in matters of faith and order. One paper, read by Professor Chrysostom Konstanti-nidis of Turkey's Halki Theological School, was based on the assumption that Eastern church traditions are closer to original Christianity than Western traditions. Yet few Protestants took offense. Said Lutheran Professor Hendrikus Berghof of The Netherlands: "Our Orthodox friends speak very frankly. They say, 'You are not the church, and we are the church,' and we applaud. We need a real conversation...