Word: lutheranism
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Saints Peter and Paul Lutheran Church...
...Novak of Stanford suggests that Luther's spirit of reform is most likely to be embodied, if at all, by someone totally outside Christianity. "The Luthers today are not in the established church," he argues. Novak suggests that the impulse for reformation today is in the New Left. Lutheran Liturgist Edgar S. Brown agrees that should a new Luther materialize, he would most likely turn up as "a novelist, poet or dramatist"-someone with the gift of words that Luther had "to get at men's minds and hearts and grab them...
...reformer appears to shock Christianity out of its malaise, churchmen agree that the old Luther still speaks directly to many of their current concerns. Although theologians have trouble trying to translate justification by faith into contemporary terms-a discussion of the subject at a 1963 meeting of the Lutheran World Federation broke up in total bafflement-few Protestants are prepared to repudiate it. Yale's Pelikan insists that "there is some relevance to a thought whose entire concern is how to cope with guilt, anxiety and fear...
...points out that Luther, in his tract On Civil Government, argued that a Christian must disobey a political ruler who expects him to disobey the will of God. It is no accident that the martyred anti-Nazi hero of the World War II German resistance, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, was a Lutheran...