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...California state senator said religion and spirituality can play a significant role in preserving the Earth and its natural resources at the University Lutheran Church last night...
EXONERATED. DIETRICH BONHOEFFER, influential Lutheran theologian hanged in 1945 for high treason against Germany; by a Berlin court, which ruled that a 1946 law nullifying Nazi-era judgments formally overturned the death sentence an SS tribunal had imposed. Bonhoeffer, whose writings held up the suffering Christ as a model of submission to God's will, had denounced Hitler as the "anti-Christ." He died at 39, one month before Germany surrendered...
...Jesus Seminar said in its Santa Rosa, California, meeting, "Belief in the Resurrection of Jesus does not depend upon what may or may not have happened to his corpse." But your report noted that in the eyes of a Lutheran layman, the group "said the Resurrection of Jesus Christ was not essential to the faith; and that, in fact, the Resurrection may not have occurred at all." In my view, your readership is ill served by the inability to understand the difference between these statements. I find that most readers do grasp this distinction quite easily, and many appreciate...
Gene Janssen's life has been largely defined by the Christian church. He is a devout member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and worked 18 years full time as a church organist. Now he's employed as a reference librarian and archivist for the elca publishing house in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Janssen has not heard much about the Jesus Seminar, but what he did hear, a year or so ago, was a little shocking: that they said the Resurrection of Jesus Christ was not essential to the faith; and that, in fact, the Resurrection may not have occurred...
...Missing God A controversial exploration of the existence of God: "Soren Kierkegaard warned that 'the day when Christianity and the world become friends, Christianity is done away with.' During World War II, the anti-Nazi Lutheran martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote prophetically to a friend from his Berlin prison cell: 'We are proceeding toward a time of no religion at all.' For many, that time has arrived . 'Personally, I've never been confronted with the question of God,' says one ... politely indifferent atheist, Dr. Claude Levi-Strauss, professor of social anthropology at the College de France. 'I find it's perfectly...