Word: lutheranism
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...that the deepest changes have occured. The large-scale, disastrous attempt to legislate morality, exemplified by Prohibition, will hardly be repeated. And since World War II, Protestants-increasingly, Catholics as well-have witnessed an unprecedented evolution of their churches' attitude toward marriage and sex. In 1956, the United Lutheran Church in America abolished the denomination's long-standing restriction on remarriage of the guilty party in divorce, decided to permit Lutheran pastors to remarry any divorced person who showed repentance. Marriage is a "lifelong, indissoluble union," declared the delegates, "but God in his love does accept the sinner...
...entire project, which is being conducted in cooperation with the Cambridge Fair Housing Committee and Fair Housing Inc. in Roxbury, is headed by Henry C. Hatfield, professor of German, the Rev. Richard E. Mumma, director of the United Ministry, the Rev. H. Paul Santmire, associate pastor of the University Lutheran Church, and Mrs. Mary Ann Witt...
...preliminary meeting for the project will be held at 9 a.m. Saturday at the University Lutheran Church next...
...recent conference in Washington of "Clergymen and Laymen Concerned About Viet Nam," 500 seminarians signed a petition urging the abolition of their exempt status. In a letter to the New York Times last month, three antiwar clergymen, Lutheran Minister Richard J. Neuhaus, Jesuit Father Daniel V. Kilfoyle and Rabbi Lloyd Tennenbaum, contended that "far from aiding institutionalized religion, the total exemption of clergy does American religion a great disservice." This month, Harvard Divinity School will sponsor a two-day seminar on the issue...
...that their exemption stigmatizes them in the eyes of others as suspected draft dodgers. Still another argument against exemption is that clergymen, if faced with the real challenge of whether or not to serve, would be forced to evaluate more searchingly the morality of war and of duty. Asks Lutheran Theologian John Elliott of St. Louis' Concordia Seminary: "How can clergymen who have not faced the draft advise men who face...