Word: lutheranism
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...Modernist? The Council's constitution forbids the drawing up of any common creed, and bars from membership extremely "liberal" churches which deny Christ's divinity. In 1944, the Council voted against admitting the Universalist Church (45,000 members). Other sizable nonmember churches: Unitarian, Southern Baptist, most Lutheran groups.' Chief complaint of most Baptist and Lutheran groups, who are basically fundamentalist, is that the Council itself is too modernist, leftist and pacifist...
Mercy Plea. Niemoller joined Lutheran Bishop Theophil Wurm of Stuttgart and other Germans in pleading mercy for his country. The delegates agreed with their German colleagues that the Allies' Potsdam declaration had not been carried out. Then they passed resolutions, significantly read to the press by the Archbishop of Canterbury, protesting...
Last week, seated in a wheel chair in Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital, where he was recovering from influenza, bull-necked Bob Wagner was baptized in the faith of Rome by Msgr. Robert F. Keegan, director of the New York archdiocese's Catholic Charities. Though born a Lutheran (in Nastatten, Germany) and raised in the U.S. a Methodist, Senator Wagner's conversion occasioned no surprise. His wife, who died in 1919, was a Catholic; his son, Robert Jr. was brought up as a Catholic. Obviously, Convert Wagner had been considering the move for some time. Said Msgr...
...Austria, Luxemburg and Hungary, election results showed tremendous new vitality in parties akin to M.R.P. In Norway and Denmark similar groups, with a Lutheran instead of a Catholic background, also showed gains. In Italy, although no election had been held, the same strengthening of the center was registered by the choice of Christian Democrat Alcide de Gasperi to form a new Cabinet...
...Mouvement Républicain Populaire in France), the twelve-year-old Norwegian party was built on deep foundations. Before the war it could gain no more than two seats in the Storting. Last month, in the liberation election (TIME, Oct. 22), it won seven. Resurgence of the Lutheran faith in war-weary Norwegians and the application of religious principles to politics accounted for the difference...