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Eisenhower, reared in the Brethren in Christ church, is not a member of any denomination, has recently attended Presbyterian and Lutheran churches...
...best guidebooks to the Reformer's works and their influence on modern times is Luther Now (Muhlenberg; $2.50), by Bishop Hanns Lilje of Hannover, the active and scholarly German prelate who this year was elected president of the Lutheran World Federation (TIME, Aug. 11). His book was written to put Luther "in clear historical perspective" for modern Christians...
...race of two-headed men. 87. Jiirgen Spanuth, Lutheran pastor, who set out from the port of Husum late this summer, claims he found: 1. The Lost Atlantis...
...German city of Lübeck a fortnight ago, and told a story that made the cops gasp. His name: Lothar Malskat, 39, artist by trade, and one of the painters who restored the bomb-burned 13th and 14th century frescoes in Lübeck's Lutheran Church of St. Mary (TIME, Sept. 10, 1951). His trouble: he was an art forger and he wanted to confess his crimes. In the past few years, he said, he and another artist named Dietrich Fey, the boss of the St. Mary restoration job, had painted and sold to German dealers...
Barth's Finger. "I was thinking about infinity," says Paul Tillich, "at the age of eight." Until his 305 Tillich performed his thinking along orthodox and unspectacular lines, reflecting his strict Lutheran background in eastern Germany. After four years as a German army chaplain in World War 1, he came home to find his country in the midst of a deep revolution, cultural as well as political. The revolutionary trends were socialist and secular. To his dismay, young Pastor Tillich found that German Lutheranism made little attempt to understand these trends or to interpret them in a religious framework...