Word: lutheranism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Armed with his expertise, Lutheran Hjortsjo got permission to investigate the country's holy treasure: a reliquary said to contain the bones of St. Bridget of Sweden, a 14th century mother of eight, noted for her moral example and mysticism.* Among the 25 bits and pieces in the crumbling reliquary in Vadstena Abbey, HjortsjÖ hit a hagiological jackpot: parts of no less than seven men and six women, including St. Bridget's daughter St. Catherine, St. Bridget's confessor Peter of Alvastra, St. Sigfrid, and-without much doubt-St. Bridget herself...
With these lines, tempestuous Poet-Artist William Blake-who thought of God as "Old Nobodaddy" and of most men as nobodies-saluted one of his few friends. Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) was, in fact, neither Turk nor Jew, but a Swiss Lutheran; Blake brandished the terms in honor of his friend's rebellious temperament and alien air. Fuseli's style as a draftsman and painter strikingly resembled that of the great Blake. As a result, his reputation has languished in the shadow of his friend's genius. Last week Manhattan's Morgan Library had on view...
...just about a year ago that Sweden was first presented with the strange case of the Rev. Dick (not a nickname) A. V. Helander, 57, former professor of theology at Uppsala University. In October 1952, he was elected Lutheran Bishop of Strangnas, in eastern Sweden. This was unexceptionable enough; he was one of Sweden's most respected conservative theologians, head of Stockholm's College of Deacons since 1936, and author of many books. But a few weeks later, two of the defeated candidates for the bishopric made a strange charge; before the voting, they said, many anonymous letters...
Whatever happens to Bishop Helander, one sure loser is the Lutheran State Church of Sweden. Only two years ago the Swedish Parliament passed a law permitting Swedes to leave the church without a declaration of faith in an alternative religion. The backstage glimpses of ecclesiastical backbiting suddenly visible in the Helander case were likely to encourage more "deserters...
...book Peter (Westminster Press; $4.50), just published in English translation, Professor Oscar Cullmann, of Basel and the Sorbonne, one of Protestantism's most distinguished Church historians, gives his evaluation of the apostle's work and stature. Lutheran Cullmann breaks with some of his fellow Protestants in insisting on Peter's primacy in the original church, and on the genuineness of the disputed text from St. Matthew's gospel supporting it. But he sharply rejects the Catholic claim that Peter began the papal succession. His finding: "In the life of Peter there is no starting point...