Word: lutheranism
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...week shuddered as a gigantic Voice suddenly bellowed at them from on high. Its volume was as the volume of a political host heard over a hundred massed loudspeakers. Actually it was the voice of one man, very much alone, the Rev. Reginald B. Naugle, an extroverted middle-aged Lutheran preacher...
...Lutheranism in the U. S. has no more unity than a basket of eggs. To give it the unity of an omelet has long been the dream of many a Lutheran-a dream partly realized in 1918, when several Lutheran bodies were merged into the United Lutheran Church, largest (1,599,102 baptized members) in the land. Last week United Lutherans held their 11th biennial conference in Baltimore. As always, they elected bald, goateed, precise Dr. Frederick Hermann Knubel of Manhattan to be their president. As always, Dr. Knubel, now 68, accepted...
...Knubel cautioned United Lutherans against finding "more pleasure in disagreeing with other Lutherans than in agreeing with them." He urged them to "discern our three-fold responsibility today, for our inner unity, for unity with all Lutherans and for unity with all Christians." But unity, he declared, should be on a basis of "extremely studious discrimination." In the Lutheran basket, the chief egg upon which the United Lutheran Church looks with favor is the American Lutheran Church (some 500,000 members...
Commissions of the two churches have explored bases for unity, have narrowed the differences in their beliefs considerably-but have not eliminated them. Although both believe that the Bible is the Word of God, American Lutherans believe it more fully, their commission holding that Scripture is "one organic whole without contradiction and error." United Lutherans go no farther than to concede that the Bible is "a complete, perfect, unbreakable whole of which Christ is the centre." This week the Baltimore conference votes on (and is expected to accept) a statement of faith, prepared by Lutheran theologians, which will place their...
...TIME, May 23). Last week in Manhattan the U.S. backers of this movement met, learned that two U.S. churches, the Presbyterian and the Congregational-Christian, had voted to join the Council. Ten others approved in principle: the Northern Baptists, Reformed and Evangelical-Reformed Churches, two smaller Presbyterian bodies, two Lutheran groups, the Disciples of Christ, the Episcopal and Methodist Episcopal Churches. Only body which had thumbed down the World Council, the Southern Baptist Convention, was expected to reconsider at its next meeting...