Word: lutheranism
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...author (with Harvard's Archibald Cox) of the classic textbook on labor law, Bok has had experience as a strike mediator and is well liked by his students, who consider him less frostily distant than Griswold. Heading the Divinity School is Stockholm-born Krister Stendahl, 46, an ordained Lutheran minister who is regarded as one of the top New Testament scholars in the U.S. Admired by his students as a charismatic teacher, Stendahl was one of three leading candidates last year for the vacant post of primate in Sweden's state church...
...similar vein, the Rev. Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, president of the 3,000,000-member Lutheran Church in America, warned his pastors last week that "unless a massive improvement of the lot of Negro ghettos comes quickly," the outlook is for "more destructive and bloody uprisings that are no longer going to be confined to the ghetto areas, but will be carried into white racial areas." Noting the nihilistic mood among many Negroes, Fry added: "The present situation is comparable to Samson when he destroyed the Temple of Dagon and himself along with it. Like him, many black brothers, blind...
...more subtle argument against the war is that it is not going to be won by force of arms. An unwinnable conflict, theologians point out, violates the traditional concept of the just war, in which the probability of accomplishing a moral goal must outweigh the violent means involved. Says Lutheran Pastor Richard Neuhaus of Brooklyn, a co-founder of Clergy and Laymen Concerned: "There is no legitimate proportionality between the credible goals of the war and the means being used to win it. The credible goals are weak and tenuous, and the means are evident in their harshness...
...school has distributed medical articles about drug dangers to all students, installed anti-pot posters in campus buildings, set up an advisory committee to deal with the problem. In the wake of the arrests, President John Toll announced that he had hired a full-time consultant on drugs, Lutheran Minister Dean A. Hepper, who in turn said that he would employ a former addict to help him work with students. The arrested stu dents, most of whom have pleaded not guilty, face the double jeopardy of both campus and county discipline. They will be tried before student-run courts...
...missionaries do it." Best known of the missionaries is Father Hugh F. Costigan, who runs the Jesuits' Ponape Agricultural and Trade School, training 160 Micronesians at a time in such basic skills as mechanics, construction and animal husbandry. Another hard-driving missionary is the Rev. Edmund Kalau, a Lutheran and onetime Luftwaffe pilot (now a U.S. citizen), who is building a youth center in his home base of Colonia featuring hobby shops, an art studio, handball and tennis courts and Micronesia's first roller-skating rink...