Word: lutheranism
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Rosenzweig became a student of the German philosophers himself and of Christianity. At 26, he was close to becoming a Lutheran. But at the point of accepting baptism, he attended Yom Kippur services and realized the ties that bound him to Judaism. Rejecting Christianity, he wrote: "That connection of the innermost heart with God, which the heathen can only reach through Jesus, is something the Jew already possesses...
...Roman Catholics have called the movie, Martin Luther,* historically inaccurate, charging that it omits unfavorable parts of Luther's career and personality. The answer of the Rev. Paul C. Empie, executive director of the National Lutheran Council, in the American Lutheran: the film had to concentrate on the essential religious issues of Luther's life. Adds Empie: "It's almost amusing to note how Roman Catholics who tell us not to judge their faith by the immorality of certain popes ridicule the teachings of Luther on the grounds of his alleged bad table manners...
Until 1936, Albert Namatjira, a husky black member of the Arunta tribe in the remote bush country of central Australia, was a camel driver. He also did odd jobs for the Lutheran mission at tiny (pop. 242) Hermannsburg, 1,300 miles northwest of Sydney. The missionaries paid him in clothes and rations of European food, with which Albert supplemented the native "bush tucker" of kangaroo meat, honey ants and fat grubs...
Gollwitzer, then 38, was an ordained Lutheran pastor who had spent two years in & out of Gestapo jails as a leading Christian anti-Nazi. He was Pastor Martin Niemoller's assistant in Niemoller's church at Berlin-Dahlem, and he took over the services there after Niemoller was arrested in 1937. Before he was drafted into the army, he had cheerfully collaborated with German Communists in the anti-Nazi resistance, and he had a European intellectual's theoretical respect for the Marxist solution. "To be leftist," he said later, "seemed a matter of honor...
...time the argument had spread to Sweden and Denmark and inflamed letter-writers had quoted practically the whole Bible, a damnable thing happened to perdition-preaching Theologian Hallesby: he was convicted of tax fraud over a period of at least ten years. He resigned his presidency of the Lutheran Inner Mission Society, stopped preaching, canceled a lecture tour. But the pother he had started went on. Should Hell be preached as part of the Gospel, or shouldn...