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...member Commission on Marriage and Family Life appointed by the United Lutheran Church in America (largest U.S. Lutheran body, with some 2,225,000 of the 7,000,000 Lutherans in the U.S. and Canada) called for relaxation of the Lutheran attitude to divorce. The commission's report would supersede the code adopted in 1930, under which only "innocent" parties to divorce granted for adultery or desertion could be remarried-and not within a year of the divorce. "Our new stand," said the Rev. William C. Zimmann, chairman of the commission, "recognizes a more realistic view ... It doesn...
Separation of church and state is mainly a New World notion. European countries from Lutheran Sweden to Roman Catholic Spain are accustomed to some kind of state-church fusion. The English all it Establishment and somehow manage to make its antique machinery function, despite such intermittent creakings and groanings as to make a non-Britisher think the whole contraption is about to fall apart. Essence of the Establishment: the state protects the Church of England but also supervises its affairs; the monarch is head of the Church; bishops are appointed by the Crown on the recommendation of the Prime Minister...
Just published is the first volume of a new 55-volume edition of Luther's works in flexible, modern English. Prepared jointly by St. Louis' Concordia Publishing House and Philadelphia's Muhlenberg Press, an arm of the United Lutheran Church in America, the new Luther will range the whole gamut of the reformer's work. Says Washington-born Theologian Helmut T. Lehmann, 41, who is in charge of the project: "We're not aiming this series at scholars. They can go to the original. This edition is intended for the searching layman, the pastor...
...Japan now has 512,450 Christians, according to a survey by the weekly Christian News- 285,022 Protestants, 193,724 Roman Catholics, 33,704 Orthodox. ¶In Milwaukee, a jury of pastors found Lutheran Pastor Victor K. Wrigley, 35, guilty of heresy on five counts, including: "Denying the objective authority of the Holy Scripture" and "Denying the historical fact of the Virgin Birth." Minneapolis' Paul E. Bishop, President of the Northwest Synod of the United Lutheran Church, said he would suspend Heretic Wrigley "without a doubt." ¶Women employees of Miami department stores have organized "Christlike Christmas Parties...
...inaugural address, Lutheran Brauer, who studied at Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary in Minneapolis and taught four years at Federated, found nothing to cheer about in the spiritual status quo. "The theological profession is becoming so respectable that it is rapidly becoming uncomfortable," he said. As for U.S. theological schools, said the young dean before his address, "too many men are still teaching the same confounded things . . . We're out to break the pattern...