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Protestants quickly disagreed with the protest. "Federal assistance should be restricted to public schools," said Dr. Oswald C. J. Hoffman of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, which operates the biggest U.S. Protestant school system (158,000 students). "Let Cardinal Spellman speak for himself. He does not speak for us Lutherans." John F. Kennedy snapped: "No comment...
...Bishop of Oslo had refused to marry her to the divorced commoner, but last week Norway's Princess Astrid, 28, followed a torchlight procession into a small, red-brick Lutheran church outside town to wed prosperous Haberdasher Johan Martin Ferner, 33, and to be read out of royalty. The procession, which was led through 10°-below-zero cold by Astrid's sister, Princess Ragnhild (who had married a commoner in the same church seven years before), included uncommon cousins from three European kingdoms, among them a sympathetic Princess Margaret of Britain. Last came Astrid and her father...
...Biblical evidence to go on. Speculation on the subject was wide open in the early centuries of Christianity, and it was the church fathers of that period who laid the foundation for later Christian thought on death. In a new book, The Shape of Death (Abingdon Press; $2.25), leading Lutheran Theologian Jaroslav Pelikan of the University of Chicago analyzes the theories of five church fathers, shows that they are still stimulating and provocative to fission-era mortals...
LESTER H. DUMMER Concordia Lutheran Seminary Springfield...
Symbolism introduces an element beyond abstract design and structure. The symbol of the cross is the heritage of all Christians. I find the tilted cross in the interior of the Hope Lutheran Church in Daly City, Calif, disturbing, from the point of view of both design and symbolism. It introduces an asymmetrical element into an interior that, except for the sheathing, is symmetrical. I think that a vertical cross would have been better design...