Word: lutheranism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anthropologist Murdock was also answered by Lutheran Minister Luther E. Woodward of the New York State Department of Hygiene. Said he: "From his findings that 70% of the cultures he studied have no taboo against premarital promiscuity, Professor Murdock jumps to the conclusion that the taboo is out of place in this culture. This is not a scientific conclusion on his part. You can't transplant the sex habits of the inhabitants of Truk and the Samoa Islands into Christian industrial America unless you transplant the meaning those sex habits have there ... It may well be that...
...Louis, two other Protestant churches took a cautious step toward what they hope will eventually be a happy marriage. The ultra-conservative Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (membership: 1,690,000) and the middle-of-the-road American Lutheran Church (membership: 689,310) announced an "agreement on doctrine," subject to approval of the two churches' national conventions. Said Dr. William Arndt of the Missouri Synod: "There may be some details of the unification that will have to be worked out later, but at least this is a start...
...behalf of the Protestants, young Stewart Herman, chief of the Lutheran World Federation Immigration Service, explained: "It's not a question of Catholics' supplying more rosaries or our supplying more layettes. What's happened is that we've recognized the social obligations of our churches as identical and have . . . united to raise our voices on behalf of the refugees. We only hope our pleas will be heard...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Walter Arthur Maier, 56, hard-driving Lutheran teacher (Concordia Theological Seminary) and preacher, whose sternly fundamentalist radio sermons (The Lutheran Hour), begun in 1935, reached an audience of millions in 36 languages through 1,200 stations; of a coronary thrombosis; in St. Louis...