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Speak of the devil, and up pops John Updike. In an introduction to a new anthology called Soundings in Satanism (Sheed & Ward; $6.95), Updike-a childhood Lutheran who became a Congregationalist-even turns into something of a devil's advocate. Speaking disapprovingly of the widespread disbelief in God's opponent, the novelist observes: "We have become, in our Protestantism, more virtuous than the myths that taught us virtue; we judge them barbaric. We resist the bloody legalities of the Redemption; we face Judgment Day, in our hearts, much as young radicals face the mundane courts-convinced that acquittal...
...real people whose taste of forbidden fruit tainted man forever with original sin? Did Jonah spend three days in the belly of a "great fish"? Did the Red Sea actually part for Moses and the Hebrews fleeing from Egypt? Last week in New Orleans, the 3,000,000-member Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod said yes to all those questions. By their votes, the delegates at the biennial L.C.M.S. convention made a crunching and almost unprecedented shift to the right, a shift that promises a major purge at the largest Lutheran seminary in the world...
...heaven. The "classical" Pentecostal denominations, like the Assemblies of God, grew up around the turn of the century and are by far the largest group-some 2.4 million in the U.S. alone. A "Nee-Pentecostal" movement has developed over the past 20 years within mainstream Protestant churches-Episcopal, Presbyterian, Lutheran-and is still spreading...
CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN COLLEGE...
Donations to Emory University, a small, formerly Lutheran institution in Atlanta, Ga., totalled $46.9 million, compared to Harvard's $46.5 million during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1972. In the same period, Yale received $43.4 million, third highest in the country...