Word: lutheranism
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...published long defenses of the natural-law argument against birth control, for example, as well as attacks on it. Its columnists include conservative Catholic Garry Wills, a frequent contributor to the National Review, and liberal Catholic John Leo of Commonweal−as well as Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg and Lutheran Theologian Martin Marty...
...Dead. Paulus Johannes Tillich's long life on that embattled border shaped his thought. He grew up in that far-off 19th century world where stability and security were taken as a matter of course. His father was a stern Lutheran minister in a small town in northern Germany called Schonfliess; his mother had been a schoolteacher from the gemutlich Rhineland. Little Paul, who later remembered encountering the conception of the Infinite at the age of eight, decided at 16 that philosophy was his field and the Evangelical Lutheran ministry was the gateway...
...RICHARD BENKEN The Lutheran Church Madison, Conn...
...rights picket lines. "From there," says the Rt. Rev. James Montgomery, Episcopal Suffragan Bishop of Chicago, "it is only another short step into deliberate partnership in the war on poverty and in educational projects." One reason that the co operation has been so easily accepted, suggests Chicago's Lutheran Theologian Martin Marty, is found in the widespread agreement with St. Augustine's notion that "necessity has no law." In other words, it is more important to eradicate poverty and social inequality than to fight about who is doing...
...Bishop James Mathews of Boston argues that Project Head Start, for example, is not Government subsidy of religion, since "the church is not receiving the benefit of the money but offering itself as a channel. The church, as a church, is not receiving the money." The president of the Lutheran Church in America, Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, agrees. "We believe that the proper relationship is one of functional interaction," he says. "As we see it, the divinely instituted missions of the church and state are converging in important areas of their activities...