Word: lutheranism
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Shortly after he got his Concordat, Hitler got the Protestant Reichsbishop he wanted. In the spring of 1933 Germany's Protestants (Lutheran. Reformed) voluntarily merged into the German Evangelical Church. To head it, the Nazis nominated Army Chaplain Ludwig Müller. a friend of Hitler and leader of the Nazified Deutsche Christen (the "German Christians...
...Lutheran Council, some 9,000 moderates led by Dr. August Marahrens, Bishop of Hanover, who did not want to be dominated by the State (i.e., the Nazis) but wanted some connection maintained between Church and State...
This statement was the nub of a survey, "Woman's Status in Protestant Churches," published last week by the Federal Council of Churches. It was based on a questionnaire sent to 5,380 active churchwomen of eight denominations (Northern Baptist, Congregational-Christian, Disciples of Christ, Episcopal, United Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, Quaker...
Last fortnight the University of Oklahoma Regents elected this prodigious character as the university's president. First Oklahoma alumnus to hold the office (salary: $10,000), 41 -year-old Joseph Brandt, a Lutheran, will succeed BaptistBible-collecting William Bennett Bizzell next August. Oklahoma's Sooners (named for the settlers who rushed into the Territory sooner than the zero hour in 1889) are tough. Few years ago six Sooner athletes caused a scandal by flogging a campus newspaper correspondent whose dispatches they did not like. Last week the consensus was that Sooners would think twice before trying such tricks...
...Seattle, Pastor J. O. Brekke of Zion Church of the Lutheran Brethren, who caught the heaviest salmon to qualify for the Sept. 29 salmon derby (TIME, Oct. 14), recently fished on Sunday, caught nothing, returned in time to confess to his congregation: "It has become clear to me that I allowed the flesh to triumph . . . and suffered a spiritual defeat...