Word: lutheranism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your abbreviated item on the proposal to the National Lutheran Council for a "fullscale spiritual invasion of the Roman Catholic countries of Latin America" [TIME, Feb. 15] is the result of an unfortunate misquotation which, I regret to admit, originated as a molehill in our own news bureau and has become a mountainous misrepresentation of my report. This report was concerned principally with the gathering of our own scattered and unchurched Lutherans who . have gone to South America as refugees and immigrants . . . This is a work of the Lutheran World Federation, which is not authorized to establish missionary enterprises...
STEWART W. HERMAN National Lutheran Council...
...time the argument had spread to Sweden and Denmark and inflamed letter-writers had quoted practically the whole Bible, a damnable thing happened to perdition-preaching Theologian Hallesby: he was convicted of tax fraud over a period of at least ten years. He resigned his presidency of the Lutheran Inner Mission Society, stopped preaching, canceled a lecture tour. But the pother he had started went on. Should Hell be preached as part of the Gospel, or shouldn...
...This morning," said Baptist Carlson, "we are here to renew our faith and our commitment to God." In the next half-hour, half a dozen notables rose to their feet. Wisconsin Senator Alexander Wiley, a Lutheran, read from the First Psalm ("Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly . . ."). Vice President Nixon, a Quaker, read from the 15th chapter of John ("This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you . . ."). Hotelman Conrad Hilton, their host, a Roman Catholic, told them: "It took a war and the frightening evil of Communism...
...annual meeting in Atlantic City, the National Lutheran Council, representing 4,500,000 members in eight church groups, called upon the U.N. General Assembly to request the Arab countries and Israel to meet at a peace table. The council, which re-elected Dr. Oscar A. Benson of Minneapolis president for his second one-year term, also heard a report from its Latin American division calling for a"full-scale spiritual invasion" of the Roman Catholic countries of Latin America...