Word: lutheranism
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...Gloomy Dean" seems to have forgotten a lot of history he certainly knew when he was younger. When he says "Lutheranism is essentially German" he should be reminded that Germany is less than 50% Lutheran while all of the Scandinavian lands are more than 90% Lutheran. Those who would "put an end to Luther's influence in Germany" should reflect that Hitler and his advisers are not and never were Lutherans, and that Lutheran pastors have been the chief obstacle to Hitler's absolute sway in Germany, Norway and Denmark, and for that reason they have suffered imprisonment...
...Lutheran Theological Seminary Gettysburg...
...Handel, Mozart, Schubert, Rossini, Weber and Verdi, most of Haydn's and Beethoven's. Blacklisted also are such treacly items as At Dawning, I Love You Truly, Good Night Sweet Jesus and the Bach-Gounod Ave Maria. The great Johann Sebastian Bach, though he was a Lutheran, is on the White List...
Debussy: En Blanc et Noir (Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson, duo-pianists; Columbia; 4 sides). Late, comparatively poor-quality Debussy, principally interesting for the quaint way in which the war-saddened composer (who died during World War I) surrounds and satirizes a Lutheran hymn. Performance: good. Recording: good...
Perennial. In Manheim, Pa., the Zion Lutheran Church made payment No. 172 on the church plot, in accord with Baron William Henry von Stiegel's 1772 stipulation: in return for the deed "one red rose annually in the month of June for ever . . . shall be lawfully demanded by my heirs...