Word: synods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believes that Lutherans are part of Protestantism as a whole and should not hold aloof from their brethren in the larger faith. The other was the American Lutheran Church (515,935 members), not quite so liberal as the United Lutherans (but not so conservative, for example, as the Missouri Synod, 1,219,935 members, which feels that Lutherans are a closed corporation, should first unite themselves, then mingle with other sects only for the purpose of converting them...
...robust Dr. Emmanuel Poppen of Columbus, Ohio, their president: "The church's 1,600 pastors and 2,000 congregations must have an opportunity to be heard." Upshot: the American Lutherans expressed a fervent hope that they and the United Lutherans might both soon be united with the Missouri Synod. They appointed a new commission to continue negotiations...
Church Militant. Many & many a churchman favored immediate intervention on the Allied side. ∧ Before 600 delegates from his 266 parishes New York's Episcopal Bishop Manning declared at the Synod House of Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine last week: "We are facing the most stupendous crisis in the last 2,000 years. ... In such a situation, can any Christian or any American be neutral?" - In Albany, N. Y., Bishop George Ashton Oldham (Episcopal) went Bishop Manning one better. The word "neutrality," said he, is "an abhorrent thing," and "isolation" is "a dangerous anachronism...