Word: lutheranism
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...groups was the United Lutheran Church (1,523,022 members), which believes that Lutherans are part of Protestantism as a whole and should not hold aloof from their brethren in the larger faith. The other was the American Lutheran Church (515,935 members), not quite so liberal as the United Lutherans (but not so conservative, for example, as the Missouri Synod, 1,219,935 members, which feels that Lutherans are a closed corporation, should first unite themselves, then mingle with other sects only for the purpose of converting them...
Less hasty were the American Lutherans, meeting in the ultra-plain parish hall of Detroit's Salem's Lutheran Church. Said ruddy, robust Dr. Emmanuel Poppen of Columbus, Ohio, their president: "The church's 1,600 pastors and 2,000 congregations must have an opportunity to be heard." Upshot: the American Lutherans expressed a fervent hope that they and the United Lutherans might both soon be united with the Missouri Synod. They appointed a new commission to continue negotiations...
Roman Catholics got 26.8% of the newspaper space devoted to church doings, Methodists 9.7%, Lutherans 8.6%, Presbyterians 7.8%, Episcopalians 7%, Baptists 5.6%, Jews 4.5%, other faiths 27.1%, according to a three-month survey of 56 leading daily papers published last week in The Lutheran. Church news occupied .7% of the total news space surveyed. Said the report...
...relations with British headquarters and abolishing all military titles, the Army changed its name to the "Salvation Body" so that it might "henceforth conform to genuine Japanese principles." Still hanging in the balance is the fate of other foreign missions in Japan (biggest are Catholic, Presbyterian, Episcopal, Methodist, Baptist, Lutheran, Congrega-tionalist), with some 700 U. S. missiona ries. But Japanese Protestants met twice last week to organize the Genuine Japan Christian Church, favored the severance of every foreign tie, fusion of all sects, Japanese supervision for all Christian ac tivity in occupied parts of China. Slated for head...
...that of J. S. Bach. In the scores of his Passions and Masses are infused the mysticism, the love, and the exaltation of Christianity, with the devotion and piety of Bach's own nature. The great B minor Mass especially expresses no narrow sectarianism, is not devoted to the Lutheran or the Roman Catholic Church, but to the universal Church of God. Truly, if, as Henry Adams has said, Chartres Cathedral represents the Church architectural, and the work of St. Thomas Aquinas the Church intellectual, then the B minor Mass is the Church musical, a concrete symbol in harmonic...