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...debaters in Room 222 of the parish house of Minneapolis' Central Lutheran Church sent out for sandwiches. At 8:30 a rumpled young minister emerged to empty a piled-high wastebasket. At 9 130 another minister came out in his stocking feet, tieless and bleary-eyed. "They are still quibbling over two words," he said. Twenty-five minutes later the door opened again and the U.S.'s No. i Protestant churchman stood there, his 6-ft., 1½-in. frame a little more stooped than usual and his face a little paler...
Four Freedoms & Unity. What Dr. Fry, together with 20 discussion-group leaders, 20 recorders and three theological consultants, had accomplished last week at the Third Assembly of the Lutheran World Federation was to hammer out 51 "theses" representing a meeting of minds of 50 million Lutherans on the role of their church in the world...
...group that calls itself "the oldest and largest Protestant communion" turned out in Minneapolis last week for an impressive show of strength. The Lutheran World Federation was holding its third assembly (the first in the U.S.), and before its ten-days' sessions were over, some 100,000 people were expected to join the 252 official delegates from 57 church bodies in 29 countries, representing more than two-thirds of the world's 70-odd million Lutherans...
Presiding over the assembly was Germany's stocky Bishop Hanns Lilje of Hannover, head of the Lutheran World Federation, and he offered some provocative news: the federation's executive committee had approved creation of a Lutheran institute to study Roman Catholic theology...
Studying the Borderline. Among the other agenda items of the conference is the question of how Lutheranism should relate itself to the newly independent nations in Asia and Africa. Delegates will also discuss such posers as: How is the freedom man has in Christ related to the questions and answers given by depth psychology and psychotherapy? Where does the borderline lie between heresy and justified variety in doctrinal expression? Under what circumstances can: a Lutheran church unite with other churches...