Word: lutheranism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...JAMES G. MANZ First Saint Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church Chicago
...BERTWIN L. FREY Messiah Lutheran Church Fairview Park, Ohio
Theological Brotherhood. The split between Catholic and Protestant Christians is an offense to Christ, says Lutheran Cullmann, but it is unrealistic to think that it can be healed now: Protestants are not going to accept the primacy of the Pope, and Catholics are not going to accept unity on any other terms. But the climate of relations between them can be changed. In fact, says Cullmann, that climate has improved considerably in recent years. On the Continent, Cullmann is involved in discussions with Catholic colleagues "almost daily," and there are "many important questions of faith in which we are able...
...produces tennis players, but because few countries in the world have been so shaken by the 20th century. Tillich's parents came from the two main strains of the solid, stolid German middle class: the stark, authoritarian Prussians on his father's side (he was a prominent Lutheran clergyman), the sentimental, gemütlich Rhinelanders on his mother's (she was a schoolteacher). Tillich has been acutely aware of the two temperamental traditions at war within him. "In the East [of Germany]," as he has described it, "a meditative bent tinged with melancholy, a heightened consciousness...
...Night Attack. In August 1914 Paul Tillich was a 28-year-old Lutheran minister in Berlin. The intellectual life seemed the way to truth. "It still seemed possible then to sit in the center of the world and be able to understand everything." But with the outbreak of World War I, the world exploded...