Word: martines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Theologically Specific. What do the Lutheran converts find in their new churches? They find, above all. two things still relatively unchanged-liturgy and theology. Martin Luther, a prolific composer, himself handed down the most famous Lutheran hymn: A Mighty Fortress Is Our God. Bach is the pride of musical Lutherans, and the tradition continues. Just off the press, with a sellout first edition of 635,000 copies, is a brand-new Service Book and Hymnal more than twelve years in the making, with 602 hymns, many of them...
...Word. Lutherans' "theological specifics" come directly from Martin Luther. who through his stormy life faced up to the problems that Protestantism has been coping with ever since...
...Confessions. The Augustinian monk named Martin Luther had no intention of founding Lutheranism-either in fact or in name. In 1522. when some of his followers referred to themselves as Lutherans, he wrote: "Please do not use my name; do not call yourselves Lutherans, but Christians . . . The doctrine is not mine; I have not been crucified for anyone . . . Why should I, a miserable bag of worms, give my meaningless name to Christ's children?'' Only later, when Roman Catholics used the term as an insult, did Luther consent to let his name be applied to those...
...Hollywood tycoon is already awakening echoes of older ones. As workmen remodeled buildings for directors, producers and writers, he said: "Those cubbyholes were no good. Our offices are going to be twice that size. These are creative people, and creative people gotta have room to think." Madelyn Pugh Martin, one of the company's favorite writers, will even get a built-in nursery for her new baby...
MISSILE TURNABOUT by the Army, which previously researched and developed its own tactical missiles, will give Baltimore's Martin Co. job of developing Pershing solid-fuel rocket (range: about 800 miles) to replace liquid-fuel Redstone (range: 200 miles...