Word: lutheranism
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Small storekeepers, craftsmen and farmers are the people who vote for Carl Gustaf Ekman and his People's Party. He used to be the village blacksmith of Munktorp in drowsy Vastmanland. As he shod horses he talked Temperance. After a while he began to write with devout Lutheran fervor against what Englishmen call brandy, Frenchmen eau-de-vie, Swedes Aquavit. Five years before the War, Munktorp's literary blacksmith took the road to greatness, accepted a call to Eskilstuna, where the owner of the Eskilstunakurirers made him Editor...
...Today. Editor is Dr. Samuel G. Craig, resigned editor of The Presbyterian. The editorial viewpoint of Christianity Today is somewhat startling to militant Protestants because it presages cooperation with the Roman Catholic Church. As phrased by Dr. Craig it is "that of the Calvinistic rather than that of the Lutheran or Arminian Churches" but "there will be the full recognition of the fact that what they hold in common with other evangelical Christians is much more important than what they hold in distinction from them. In fact while they will be as unflinchingly opposed to Rome as were their fathers...
...Mass. It is doubtful if Bach, an ardent Lutheran, ever intended his monumental Mass to be given in the Catholic Church. Nor was it practical because of its great length for use in the Lutheran service (it takes nearly three hours to perform). It was conceived probably with little thought for its future, as an expression of Bach's own deep, personal faith, inspired by the simple piety that led him to inscribe even the little clavier pieces composed for his children with the words In Nomine Jesu. Yet the text adheres to the form of the Ordinary...
...doing as he did any German may, it would appear, also become a guiltless bigamist. Vexed, Lutheran and Catholic clergymen thundered from their pulpits...
...became Papal Nuncio to Germany, added Lutheran Prussia to the list of states in the good graces of mother church. One task of particular delicacy faces him in the next months: powerful, anti-religious Soviet Russia...