Word: synods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trouble, no backsliding at the last moment by conscience-stricken churchmen. The militant Saxon theological students were his praetorian guard. Menacingly they faced the famed Castle Church on the doors of which in 1517 Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses-the charter of the Reformation. Apprehensively churchmen comprising the Synod of the Evangelical Churches of Germany entered and prayed...
Ever since the election of Evangelical elders and deacons last July-an election which the Nazi "German Christian" faction won after violent scuffling and intimidation-it has seemed inevitable that the Synod must elect Dr. Müller to be Reichsbischof of all Germany. Last week after prayers in the Castle Church the delegates went to the Town Church to vote. In marched the theological brownshirts, surrounded the Synod and watched their every move. Promptly and unanimously the Synod elected Dr. Müller to be Reichsbischof and to bring the German Evangelical Churches under the de facto rule...
...attitude by our Churches of unconcerned neutrality toward the State now belongs to the past!" shouted Reichsbischof Müller, hammering home the main point at once to the Synod. ''We must all give loyal service to the State, which disavows - definitely and altogether right fully - any liberal or social freedom of conscience...
...committee report proposed that the 13 theological seminaries of the United Lutheran Church be merged, for economy, into five strategic centres across the country. This proposal was put over until this week, as also was one made by the ministerium of Pennsylvania (oldest, largest synod in the church) objecting to the birth control pronouncements of the Federal Council of Churches and urging that the Lutherans withdraw from their consultative membership...
...Manhattan last week, the United Lutheran Synod of New York, also aroused on birth control, memorialized the national church to request the Federal Council "before making public pronouncements ... to ascertain first, when possible, the position of all churches involved and to list any such as may not be in agreement...