Word: lutheranism
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...hundred years ago, 34 determined Lutherans fresh from Saxony met in a tiny Chicago church. There was one thing about this big new country that they could not abide-U.S. Lutherans were backsliding from the strict, exacting faith of their founder. To combat this trend, the 34 founded the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States...
...their part, several Lutheran churches are in process of a pronounced return to their original liturgy, after having suffered for two centuries an impoverishment comparable to that of the Calvinist churches. ... In Calvinist circles in France and Switzerland, among many young pastors, among students of theology and influential laymen, the legitimacy of liturgy in itself is no longer being argued, as it was before...
...first Sunday it was open, thousands upon thousands of Minnesotans and Wisconsinites, most of them patients and friends of 72-year-old Dr. William, came to inspect the clinic and attend Lutheran services inside. Its rooms were banked high with flowers from Winonans, whom the old doctor had attended for 51 years. The Heise boys beamed. Dr. William tried not to look too proud...
Pastor to Painter. As his worshipers knew him, Fuseli was "a little white-headed lion-faced man in an old flannel dressing gown tied round his waist with a piece of rope." Brought up to be a Lutheran pastor, he left Zurich soon after his first sermon, on the text: "What will this babbler say?" The babbler had decided that there was a better future in painting. "I do not wish to build a cottage," he wrote in a friend's album, "but to erect a pyramid...
...John's Lutheran Church...