Word: lutheranism
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...hero as a German U-boat skipper in World War I and a martyr as a Nazi prisoner in World War II, West Germany's pugnacious Pastor Martin Niemöller, neutralist foe of his country's rearmament, began a skirmish with his own Evangelical Lutheran Church. Charged last month with neglecting the spiritual duties of the church's Foreign Bureau, run by him, Niemöller wrote a bitter letter of resignation to famed Bishop Otto Dibelius, tossed in a threat that unless the charges are withdrawn, "I will hold the time ripe to expose...
...Teacher of the Irish Saints?" In the handsome Dublin church named for the great 6th century monk, a new pastor was preaching last week, and in his accents there was precious little of the Liffey. For a fact, the Rev. Hans Dietrich Mittorp was German, and a Lutheran at that-the first Lutheran pastor with a parish in Ireland for more than two centuries...
Germany's great churchman, Bishop Hanns Lilje of Hanover, himself went to Dublin to install the new pastor ("He comes," said the bishop, "as a messenger of Christ"). Pastor Mittorp preaches to a community of 300 Lutherans in Dublin every other Sunday and on the Sundays in between, to 200 Lutherans in Belfast. His polyglot congregation is the first Lutheran church in Europe not organized on national lines. Says he: "This is the right way. The church should not be bound by nationalism but by ties of belief...
Toward Neoliberalism. Lutheran Cullmann, 53, is a great searcher for new meanings himself. Born in Strasbourg, he has occupied the chair of Early Church History and the New Testament at Switzerland's Basel University since 1938. Theologian Cullmann also teaches early Christianity at the Sorbonne, commuting to Paris for two days of lecturing every fortnight. Cullmann stitches busily away at his theological works on trains between Basel, Paris and Rome (soon to be published is his book on the Christology of the New Testament, and also in progress are a French translation of the New Testament, a commentary...
...There are 69,362,978 Lutherans in the world, announced the Lutheran World Federation in Geneva (not counting Lutherans in countries where no organized church exists). This increase of 1,650,794 over the 1953 total gives Lutherans about 3% of the world's population, about 10% of the world's Christians, and about a third of the world's Protestants...