Word: lutheranism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...would like to suggest a change in the rules for the new game invented by Father de Gioia. As a Lutheran, it seems to me that it would be more logical to have the player who stops on square 49 discontinue his trip to the "Holy Father" . . . Every Protestant knows that Christ lives in the heart of the believer and not in the Vatican. DOROTHY M. COHEA Waterloo, Iowa...
Last week the National Lutheran Council was studying a tortured message on the subject from eight top-ranking leaders of the Hungarian Lutheran Church. The Hungarian Lutherans said they felt that it was better to continue as a congregation in being, rather than to court destruction by resisting the state. "It is after a decision by faith and trusting in God alone that the Hungarian Lutheran Church has taken the way which it considers a narrow path in the present world . . ." Surely the church "might subsist in Hungary and perform its task under no more adverse circumstances than the apostles...
...Lutherans, dissatisfied with what they consider the Hungarian church's lukewarm defense of Bishop Lajos Ordass, who is serving a two-year prison term for alleged improper registering of funds received from the U.S., have sent no aid to Hungary for the past two years. The Hungarian message did not tend to change their minds. Said Dr. Paul Empie, executive director of the National Lutheran Council: "The statement is an obvious effort to show that they have a unique situation which we in the West are in no position to judge . . . But until our delegation can get there...
...Washington, D.C., at the invitation of Episcopal Bishop Angus Dun, some 3,000 people came to Washington Cathedral on Ash Wednesday for a day of services devoted to "God, Man and the Hydrogen Bomb." Forty ministers joined in the Communion service. A Lutheran read the Epistle: "Spare thy people, O Lord . . ."A Negro Congregationalist read the Gospel: "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth . . ."A Baptist preached the sermon: "Science and invention cannot save us ... The future destiny of man on this planet depends on how soon and low well mankind learns the two lessons : Thou shalt love...
Anthropologist Murdock was also answered by Lutheran Minister Luther E. Woodward of the New York State Department of Hygiene. Said he: "From his findings that 70% of the cultures he studied have no taboo against premarital promiscuity, Professor Murdock jumps to the conclusion that the taboo is out of place in this culture. This is not a scientific conclusion on his part. You can't transplant the sex habits of the inhabitants of Truk and the Samoa Islands into Christian industrial America unless you transplant the meaning those sex habits have there ... It may well be that...