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Schiotz is a self-effacing pastor, and thus is one of the least-known important Lutherans in the country. Nevertheless, he has been a key man in much of the behind-the-scenes conciliation that makes ecumenicism work. In 1956 he led the old Evangelical Lutheran Church into the World Council of Churches. Next he played a major role in the negotiations that brought the Evangelical Lutherans into the A.L.C. The target now: intercommunion with Fry's Lutheran Church in America...
Without question, Wisconsin is now the most rigidly fundamentalist of all Lutheran groups. All pastors must teach that the Bible cannot err even in details, that God created the world in six 24-hour days, that Moses was the author of the Pentateuch. Wisconsin churches hardly ever join with other Christian groups in sponsoring civic projects. But "we aren't ogres," says Pastor James Schaefer of Milwaukee's Atonement Church. "We enjoy a martini once in a while, and some of us even say 'dammit' from time to time...
...office, Arthur Michael Ramsey has blessedly proved to be not primarily an administrator or church politician but a pastor, a father-in-God whose task is less to change the world now, and more to prepare men's hearts and minds for Christ's coming. Although he reads and absorbs such radical theo logians as Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Ru dolf Bultmann, he preaches an oldfashioned, timeless spirituality that echoes the language of the Authorized Version. "By sophisticated attempts to be contemporary at all costs," he said once, "we blunt the force that lies in the universal imagery...
Chris Reaske, as a farmer, and Thom Babe, the pastor, shone like bright alpha stars in comparison, however, and made it possible for the leads to work. Reaske's storming over the injustice he suffered in a slander case was controlled but believable; unfortunately the incident had little to do with the main plot of the play...
Winter Light. The protagonist of this somberly beautiful picture is a Swedish pastor who not only fails himself but fails everyone who needs his help because he doubts the very existence of God. Ingmar Bergman's latest film is colder, darker and even more relentless than the others...