Word: lutheranism
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...have lots of fun with a Lutheran minister discussing matters of theology, but that's not good enough. The ecumenical movement must be formed into a united Church witness to the world; we must reach some common understanding on the Church's mission in the temporal order," he said...
Those who believe something can be done are, however, turning away from traditional areas of commitment such as religion. Harvard-based Lutheran Chaplain Paul Santmire, 29, finds that "these kids have been fed a Milquetoast gospel in a modern world; they view religion with a certain anthropological sophistication. Yet they are past Nietzsche, because they really would like to believe." More than 250,000 students are helping tutor children in depressed areas. A more immediately fruitful area for social involvement is the campus itself-a malleable microcosm of an existing and perfectible world. Harold Taylor, former president of Sarah Lawrence...
...list of 275 nominees, Christ-Janer represents something of a break with the school's presidential tradition. All five of his predecessors were both Methodist ministers and teetotalers; the son of a Nebraska Lutheran schoolteacher, Christ-Janer was a Presbyterian layman before becoming a Methodist-and he does take a social drink now and then. He majored in Greek at Minnesota's Carleton College, has a law degree from the University of Chicago as well as one in divinity from Yale...
Poetic Talent. Kurt Kiesinger seemed fated for a conciliator's role. His home is in Swabia, a good-natured area of Germany that lacks the fierce regional pride that burns so intensely in many parts. He came from a home that was both Lutheran (his father) and Catholic (his stepmother), though he himself is a Catholic today. His regal bearing leads most people to think he is an aristocrat, but he springs, in fact, from a lower-middle-class family, in which he was the eldest of seven children. His father?now a sprightly 90?was a bookkeeper...
...John C. Bennett of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary announced that a petition urging a change in Catholic teaching on family planning had been sent to Pope Paul VI last June; among the 85 scientists and religious leaders who endorsed it were President Franklin Clark Fry of the Lutheran Church of America, Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, and the Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill, former Episcopal presiding bishop...