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Religious barriers hardly exist any more in church publishing. Presbyterian Theologian Robert McAfee Brown of Stanford writes for the lay-edited Catholic weekly Commonweal, and Lutheran Theologian Jaroslav Pelikan is a regular columnist for Denver's Catholic diocesan weekly, the Register. Last week Pittsburgh's Catholic Duquesne University Press published a new Journal of Ecumenical Studies; the editors include Brown, Catholic Theologians Hans Kung and Gregory Baum, Lutheran George Lindbeck...
...Chicago, Lutheran church leaders drew up a draft constitution for a new cooperative service agency to replace the present National Lutheran Council. Founded in 1918, the council now serves the Lutheran Church in America (3,100,000 members) and the American Lutheran Church (2,300,000). Its proposed successor would bring in two conservative bodies that have long been wary of cooperating: the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (2,500,000) and the Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Churches (20,000). At Missouri's insistence, the new agency will have a strong division for theological studies, which could help resolve some...
...Sunday audience of more than 3,000,000 and drew more than 15,000 letters-by far the best response to any program put on by the National Council of Churches in televi sion history. Last Sunday, Frontiers of Faith presented the first lecture of a new series by Lutheran Minister Staack. His theme this year is "living personalities of the Old Testament," and it promises to do just as well as Genesis...
...over 20 other candidates, the National Council chose a well-qualified scholar with some hard experience in secular life as well. Staack studied at the universities of Berlin and Hamburg, was ordained a minister of the Hitler-hating Confessing Church in 1939. As it did with many other rebellious Lutheran pastors, the Nazi government drafted Staack for army service in 1939; he was wounded five times in eastern-front combat and spent ten months in Russian and British prison camps. He came to the U.S. in 1949 as a graduate fellow and lecturer at Princeton Theological Seminary, joined the Muhlenberg...
When Dopfner speaks, others listen, and 2,800 people-including priests, foreign diplomats and non-Catholic clergy-gathered in Munich's Congress Hall to hear him. It turned out to be, said one excited Lutheran churchman after ward, "the first time anyone so high up in the Catholic hierarchy has made a speech quite so daring...