Word: lutheranism
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...possibility that I might be sued and I became cautious, especially with the people who came in off the street. I'll tell you, that doesn't make you feel very easy in conversation with people." Sixteen months ago, his congregation joined 1,700 others in the Lutheran Church in America and 5,700 United Methodist congregations in group liability plans offered through the Atlantic Mutual Insurance...
With considerably more grace than Baumer, John Paul cited the 450th anni versary and told a gathering of Lutheran leaders that Catholics must take their share of the blame for Luther's great schism: "We must do what unites. We owe that to God and the world." But when Lutheran Bishop Eduard Lohse pressed bluntly for joint Communion, John Paul said that full doctrinal agreement must come first...
...Pope's tour was a step forward, however. It followed a substantive break through. Earlier this year Lutheran and Catholic negotiators stated that despite differences on many practices, the content of the Augsburg Confession "in large measure . . . can be regarded as an expression of the common faith." The principal doctrinal dispute that produced the Reformation was faith vs. good works in salvation...
...three-day hunger strike, while 100 others crowded into Moscow's Supreme Soviet building demanding to emigrate to Israel. Exiles from the U.S.S.R. converged upon Madrid to hold press conferences detailing repression at home. Outside the Palace of Congresses, Maris Kirsons, a 39-year-old Latvian-born Lutheran minister from Philadelphia, punctured a vein in his arm and dripped blood on a Soviet flag in a protest against Moscow's dominance of the Baltic states...
Along 16th Street all the world's churches seem to have convened for a permanent caucus - Mormon, Universalist, Episcopal, Lutheran, Swedenborgian. There are many distinctive areas like this. Glen Echo is an amusement park that went out of business in 1968. Now arts groups meet there near abandoned carrousel horses and a cracked, empty pool. Downtown, the old Woodward & Lothrop department store looks as handsome as ever, with its polished wood everywhere. Streets are lined with wig emporiums and phrenologists. The National Portrait Gallery is located in the old U.S. Patent Office that doubled as a makeshift hospital during...