Word: lutheranism
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...Budapest believed this charge. Hungarian Lutherans have never had a financial scandal. Hungarians merely recalled that last March, when the Communists demanded a Lutheran endorsement of their "people's democracy," the Lutherans had endorsed "Kossuth's democracy." Ever since, Lutherans have stubbornly resisted Communist efforts to take over their church...
...Hungary, the Ministry of the Interior belatedly announced the arrest of three leaders of the Lutheran church: Bishop Lajos Ordass (TIME, Sept. 13), Baron Albert Radvanszky and Sandor Vargha. The charges: disposing of "several hundred thousand dollars without the permission of the National Bank, and [selling] foreign currency on the black market...
...Easter [1947] High Mass was the most gripping and solemn service I ever experienced. Sixty Lutheran P.O.W.s from the Bible belt near Bielefeld, Germany, approached me on Holy Saturday night and asked for permission to come to our Catholic liturgy and Holy Communion. My heart stood still for a moment. By questioning them, I found out that all of them believe in the Real Presence,† that nearly all of them were used to confessing their sins, and all knew how to elicit perfect contrition. All had been baptized . . . by believing Lutheran ministers...
...Lutheran minister from Pennsburg, Pa. was pondering the world's sins as he strolled the quiet walks of Oxford. "How can one man change the world?" he asked himself. Suddenly, as he said afterwards, the answer came direct from God: "First one man changed, then two, then four, then eight. A million changed. A whole nation changed...
...Soul Surgeon." Such spiritual showmanship is the latest, and most successful, mutation of Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman's particular form of 20th Century evangelism. Born of Pennsylvania Dutch stock and educated at Allentown's (Pa.) Muhlenberg College, Buchman was ordained a Lutheran minister in 1902, and did welfare work in a Lutheran hospice for boys in a suburb of Philadelphia. From 1909 to 1915 he was secretary of the Y.M.C.A. at Pennsylvania State College. He has never married...