Word: synods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cardinal on a matter of fundamental principle: the separation of church and state, "a cherished ideal of all American Lutherans since they first arrived on American soil 300 years ago." Lutherans did not seek federal aid to education, declared Dr. John W. Behnken, president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, the most conservative of the large Lutheran groups.* Even if the Government should offer help to private schools, Dr. Behnken said, "there must be a clear understanding that no Government assistance can be given to support the instructional program of church schools. If there is no such understanding, the Lutheran...
...number, take their name from the corner of Arabia where they were cut off for centuries from the rest of Jewry. In their isolation they were not touched by the edict of famed Rabbi Gershom Ben Judah ("Light of the Exile"), who, around the year 1000, at a synod in Western Germany, banned polygamy for French and German Jews.* The Yemenites clung to the Old Testament rule of David (at least eight wives), Solomon (1,000 wives and concubines) and Herod (nine wives). Poverty has always limited the custom, and limits it sharply today. The Yemenites are Israel...
...same synod, Rabbi Gershom also decreed it unlawful to open letters addressed to others. This led to the custom, prevalent in Eastern Europe until recently, of marking letters sent by messenger with the initials BHDRG, an abbreviation for "Beherem de Rabbenu Gershom-under the ban of Rabbi Gershom...
...Niebuhr was ordained in the Evangelical Synod of North America, a German Lutheran church now a part of the Evangelical and Reformed Church...
...middle-of-the-road American Lutheran Church has 624,714 members. U.S. Lutheranism's largest group is the "liberal" United Lutheran Church in America: 1,810,076. The Missouri Synod...