Word: lutheranism
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...young seem to be earnestly trying to construct their own code, and are even rediscovering for themselves some of the older verities. "They are piecing together lives which are at least as whole as their parents," says Lutheran Minister Martin Marty. They marry early-probably too early-and they give the impression of escaping into marriage almost with a sense of relief. Often they are disappointed by what marriage brings...
...longtime Yale Catholic chaplain, is Stephen G. Kuttner, now at Catholic University in Washington, the nation's only lay professor of canon law and a model of the small-c catholic manner. The son of a Jewish mother, German-born Lawyer Kuttner, 56, grew up as a Lutheran, became a Catholic after fleeing the Nazis in 1933. He learned canon law as a refugee researcher in the Vatican library, became one of the world's top scholars in a field usually dominated by the clergy...
Ecumenical Overtones. The reform has striking ecumenical overtones. For if the Liturgical Commission has its way, the Roman Mass of the future will bear a much greater outward resemblance to the Anglican and Lutheran Communion services developed by the Reformation fathers 400 years...
...number of U.S. Protestant churches, the Civil War had the divisive effect of a minor Reformation. The Baptists, Presbyterians, Methodists and Lutherans split into Northern and Southern branches over the question of slavery. Some of these old war wounds have healed-the Methodists reunited in 1939, and Lutheran bodies have been joining together almost continuously since 1910-and now a merger between the nation's two largest white Baptist groups seems at least dimly in the offing...
Declining to join, the Rev. Henry Horn of University Lutheran Church said yesterday "I don't want my work identified with what I feel is only a 'revival' rather than an honest approach to the twentieth century." Horn felt that the evangelist would only antagonize many students...