Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pastor Bronstein's services follow a conventional Protestant order, with special emphasis on the connections between the Old Testament and the New. Jewish holidays are celebrated with Christian interpretations. Example: the blowing of the shofar on Rosh Hashanah-to remind God of Abraham's offering of his son Isaac and. for Isaac's sake, the forgiveness of sins-contains for Jewish Christians the additional idea that Jesus died to atone for the sins of the world...
...David Bronstein is no rabbi but a pastor, and the 100-odd members of his Chicago congregation, almost all of them born Jews, call themselves Hebrew Christians. Their group is the first of five organized Hebrew Christian churches in the U.S. (the others: Detroit. Philadelphia. Miami and Los Angeles). In 1934 David Bronstein founded the Chicago church-not formally affiliated with the others-out of a feeling that "I was chosen to bring the Jewish people to Christ...
Ordet (The Word) is another religious film of the same midnight-sunny Scandinavian sort. Based on a play of the same title by Kaj Munk, the Danish pastor and playwright who was murdered, probably on Gestapo orders, in 1944, the picture does not tell a story so much as it poses an allegory. A village divided by religious faction into "life-affirming" and "death-seeking" sects is intended to signify what is rotten in the state of Denmark's soul, and in the world's as well. Because of this tragic split, the true faith-symbolized...
This week in East Berlin's famed Marienkirche-under the noses of his Red enemies-doughty Evangelical Bishop Otto Dibelius, 77, offered a prayer for Pastor Schmutzler, and told his congregation that, in fact, the church had already defeated the Communists in their campaign to win German youth away from religion: "Our younger generation has a more conscious faith than when we were young. Young people sink themselves in the Bible to strengthen their faith...
...James B. Pugh, pastor of the Church of the Light of Christ in Roxbury, began preaching about 3 p.m., on the side-walk in front of the Coop. As his audience grew and began to spill out into the street, the regular flow of automobiles and pedestrians became obstructed...