Word: luthers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Luther (Cob-Film). The German producers who made this compressed biography of Protestant Martin Luther had to be careful. They could not make him out an inspired and righteous prophet or Roman Catholics might stay away. They could not, on the other hand, suggest as some theologians have, that Luther was an oversensitive but not overintelligent monk, stimulated by the dirty church politics of his time into a rebellion which became increasingly fanatic as it became increasingly personal. Their real job was to consider that Luther had no reputation one way or the other. If they had shown...
More objectively treated, it would have been great. Reverence weighs it down and makes it dull. The characters act pompously, as though never forgetting for a second that the things they are doing are described in all history books. Routine shots: Eugene Kloepfer as Luther writing his theses against indulgences-arguing before the Diet at Worms. Two Weeks Off (First National). Without being particularly original or ambitious, this account of Dorothy Mackaill's affection for a plumber masquerading as a famed actor has a nice flavor. More than half of it is silent, and the long stretches of agreeable...
...discourse centred on two main Lutheran desires: 1) World unity among Lutherans; 2) A revival and fostering of the spirit of Martin Luther, to be engendered chiefly by intensive reading and teaching of Luther's Small Catechism...
...Archbishop recalled that when Luther nailed his 95 Theses on the church door at Wittenberg he had no intention of separating from Rome but that later "Rome expelled him from fellowship with the worldly Papal power." Queried the Archbishop: "Would the Rome of today with its sense also of spiritual values have done the same...
...this conference went many a famed church-unionist and several non-unionists. Among famed churchmen present were Dr. Joseph Ross Stevenson. President of Princeton Theological Seminary; Yale's Divinity Dean Luther Allan Weigle; Dr. Samuel McCrea Cavert, General Secretary of the Federal Council of Churches; Dr. Daniel Alfred Poling, editor-in-chief of the Christian Herald; Dr. William Adams Brown, Vice President of Union Theological Seminary, who recently married Col. Lindbergh and Miss Anne Morrow; Bishop James Cannon Jr.; Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman. Outstanding among laymen were Swarthmore's Philosopher-Professor Jesse Herman Holmes and President Frank...