Word: lutheranism
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...Lutheran Council. The World Federation elected him its president last week. And next November in St. Louis, Franklin Clark Fry will very likely be elected president of the National Council of Churches...
...third generation of Lutheran pastors in his family (his son is pastor of St. Philip's Lutheran Church in Brooklyn), Dr. Fry, 56, is a Yankee fan, an ardent Democrat, and a purposeful pinochle player-he has frequently trounced the Archbishop of Canterbury. Regarded as one of the ablest administrators in Protestantism, buoyant Dr. Fry is usually somewhere else in the world than his Manhattan office (which used to be J. P. Morgan's Madison Avenue mansion) or his house in suburban New Rochelle. In the last two years he has circled the globe, visited Russia, India, Australia...
...UNITY OF THE CHURCH IN CHRIST: In a divided Christendom "the Lutheran churches are called back to their confession: 'To the true unity of the church it is enough to agree concerning the doctrine of the Gospel and the administration of the sacraments; nor is it necessary that human traditions, the rites and ceremonies instituted by man, should be everywhere alike...
...cross who shepherded the theses through the word-splitting session in Room 222 and later through the plenary session of the assembly in the 10,000-seat Minneapolis Auditorium is entitled, if anyone is, to be called Mr. Protestant. He is president of the 2,270,000-member United Lutheran Church in America and chairman of the policymaking central committee of the World Council of Churches. He is a member of the general board of the National Council of Churches and a member of the executive committee of the National...
Tired Dr. Fry was pleased last week with the ten-day assembly's action in urging a ban on nuclear-weapon tests, voting to study the effects of mixed marriages with Roman Catholics and to strengthen Lutheran efforts in Latin America. But he was most pleased of all at the theses. "At Lund, Sweden, in 1947, Lutherans learned to march together," he said. "At Hannover, Germany, in 1952, they learned to worship together. At Minneapolis in 1957, they learned to think together...