Word: lutheranism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lutheran." George had been an alert student, frisked through eight grades at the local one-room school in six years, graduated from York High at 16. He wanted to go to Swarthmore, but father Leader vetoed that seat of Quakerism with five words: "No, you are a Lutheran."* So George obediently went off to nearby Gettysburg College, a small (1,200 students) institution affiliated with the Lutheran Church. In his senior year he transferred to the University of Pennsylvania in order to study more political science, sociology and history. He graduated in 1939, and promptly married Mary Jane Strickler...
...Lutheran Krister Stendahl, 33, one of Sweden's most brilliant Christian scholars, authority on the first century school of St. Matthew, avid apostle of Sweden's highly intellectual Christian youth movement...
...Salem Lutheran Church...
...assembly wound up its 17 days with some notable pieces of business. The delegates re-elected Dr. Willem A. Visser 't Hooft as general secretary of the World Council, elected Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, president of the United Lutheran Church in America, as chairman of the powerful, 90-man Central Committee, which will carry on the Council's business between assemblies, and decided to meet again in 1960. Of the final statements approved, the most noteworthy were...
With that hard line, German Sculptor Gerhard Marcks dismisses most modern art. Marcks is a Lutheran in religion, a classicist in sculpture, and anything but bored. At 65 he is laboring mightily to produce the best sculptures of his career. Last week 36 of them were on view at the London Arts Council Gallery. Items...