Word: lutheranism
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Ever since a young nobleman named Gustav Vasa fought his way to the throne in the 16th century and broke with Rome, Sweden has been overwhelmingly Lutheran. For most of that time it has had a Lutheran state church with the kind of brassbound temporal authority that Protestants are often pointing fingers at the Roman Catholics for. The king of Sweden and all his ministers had te be members of the Church of Sweden,* all citizens had to pay taxes for its support, and no one could leave it officially except to join another Christian church. Roman Catholics were forbidden...
Said a clergyman of Sweden's Lutheran State Church: "Our churches are empty. We do not seem to be able to interest the young. But nobody else seems able to interest them either...
...picture, Solar Miracle, to take up half of that page? I am very much interested in religious news, but, as a Protestant, I like to read a little more in TIME that does not link itself up with speeches and visions of Pope Pius XII. REV. ROBERT E. BREGE (LUTHERAN) Grand Haven, Mich...
...Just before his death in January 1950, Dr. Walter Maier, famed radio preacher of the Lutheran Hour, enthusiastically agreed to edit a dozen of Martin Luther's sermons and record them for Portable Church Services as the voice of Luther. Barnhouse is still looking for another voice with the proper German undertones to fill the role...
...Members: the Rev. Franklin Clark Fry, president of the United Lutheran Church in America; Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam; the Rev. Eugene C. Blake, stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church (North); the Rev. Reuben E. Nelson, general secretary of the American Baptist Convention; the Rev. Douglas Horton, minister at large of the Congregational Christian Churches; the Rev. Ben. R. Lacey, president of Union Theological Seminary in Virginia (Southern Presbyterian...