Word: lutheranism
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...class Christian Arab family had lived in Jerusalem while Palestine was under British mandate, and the father, Bishara Salameh Sirhan, now 52, was a waterworks employee. The first Arab-Israeli war cost the elder Sirhan his job. Family life was contentious, but young Sirhan Sirhan did well at the Lutheran Evangelical School. (The family was Greek Orthodox, but also associated with other religious groups...
Infant baptism is under fire. The most recent attack on this traditional Christian practice comes from West Germany, where 350 Evangelical (Lutheran) churchmen have petitioned the Rhineland synod to abandon the rubric requiring infant baptism and let parents decide when their children should undergo the ceremony. To give the demand more weight, 50 pastors in Germany have publicly indicated that they will not baptize their own children...
Nonetheless, there are some serious objections to total abolition of infant baptism. Philip Hefner of Chicago's Lutheran School of Theology argues that the ceremony marks the entrance of the Christian into the community of faith, and that by baptizing infants the church shows that he is acceptable even when defenseless before...
...best example of the unconventional approach in action is in Columbus, Ohio. A humane and intelligent Lutheran minister, Rev. Leopold Bernhard, helped set up a "Neighborhood Corporation" in Columbus's ghetto with the help of Washington writer Milton Kotler. The Corporation is, in fact, little more than a simple legal line drawn around a neighborhood of 8,000 people. (Any good lawyer can set one up in a few hours--if a community so wishes...
Mount Calvary Lutheran Church...