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What's wrong with U.S. theological seminaries and divinity schools? Plenty, charges Hartford Seminary Foundation's Peter Berger, 33, a Lutheran sociologist whose vivid attacks (The Precarious Vision, The Noise of Solemn Assemblies) on the organizational church are fast earning him a reputation as a kind of Connecticut Kierkegaard. Writing in the July issue of Theology Today, Berger argues that the seminaries have become so concerned with trying to provide for the short-term institutional needs of the church that they are in danger of forgetting what a Protestant minister really ought to be: first and foremost...
Last week, in the name of Pope John, Bea invited three of the world's largest Protestant cooperative agencies-the World Council of Churches, the Lutheran World Federation, and the World Presbyterian Alliance-to name two or three observer-delegates each by Aug. 1. Anxious to attend the sessions, the World Methodist Council accepted its invitation last month, and the Church of England has already named as Anglican delegates three experts on "ecumenical problems. Another major church group on the list is the International Congregational Council, whose delegates ended the ninth Congregational Council in Rotterdam last week, voted unanimously...
Inoffensive as the prayer seemed to the Regents, it offended a lot of people. The American Jewish Congress and several other major Jewish groups officially protested against it. So did the American Civil Liberties Union and various freethinker groups. The leaders of a Lutheran church in Peekskill, N.Y., denounced the prayer as "an abomination" (because it contained no mention of Christ). The Methodist Church board in Schenectady, N.Y., declared that the "place for specific teaching and formal practice of religion is in the home and in the church...
...letters a year, and has become good friends with such non-Catholic clergymen as Willem Visser Hooft, general secretary of the World Council of Churches; the Most Rev. Geoffrey Fisher, retired Archbishop of Canterbury; and Franklin Clark Fry, who last week was elected first president of the newly merged Lutheran Church in America...
...director, Dr. Walter Wolbrecht, "we want to see what church work the several bodies can do together better than they can do separately.'' Last week, at its annual convention in Cleveland, the Missouri Synod adopted a resolution that proposed an international synodical conference "designed to embrace all Lutheran bodies." To succeed its president of the last 27 years, Dr. John Behnken, 78, the synod elected Dr. Oliver Harms, 60, of St. Louis, the church's first vice president for the last three years. Says Lutheran Harms: "We shall continue conversations with as many Lutheran church bodies...