Word: synods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buys a lottery ticket and prays to God to win may be a better Christian than the man who frowns on this as sinful, said a Dominican priest last week. The Dutch Reformed Church Synod on Public Immorality in Transvaal, South Africa had condemned lotteries as dishonest, and warned that "calling on God to satisfy our own selfish desires through the medium of lotteries and gambling is profanity and a sacrilege." Father Gerard Marie Antonius Jansen snapped back in the Afrikaans-language Catholic magazine, Die Brug (The Bridge) : "What appears to us as chance or coincidence is no coincidence...
...Groups. The most conservative U.S. Lutheran group is the MISSOURI SYNOD, which regards the confessions not only as "a doctrinal standard" but as "kerygmatic and prayable, i.e., they belong in the pulpit and the pew. They are a doxology [and] establish the consensus with the fathers." The Missouri Synod and its conservative associates in the SYNODICAL CONFERENCE (see Chart) stand unalterably on acceptance of the confessions "because"-not "insofar as" -they are in agreement with the Bible. They are equally firm on 1) literal interpretation of the Bible and 2) refusal to join any group whose members do not interpret...
...Amsterdam) in 1623. In 1638 Swedish Lutherans established a colony in Delaware. By mid-18th century Lutheranism was firmly established, mostly by Germans, along the eastern seaboard. Patriarch of Lutheranism in the U.S. was the Rev. Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, organizer and theologian, who in 1748 formed the first Lutheran Synod in America. In the early 19th century Lutheranism joined the great westward move, swept along by new waves of immigrants from Germany and Scandinavia...
...spokesman, declared: "Human beings are not cattle to be bred by test tubes. Only a pagan world would treat them as such." Britain's popular press disagreed, argued that artificial insemination could bring comfort to women previously unable to conceive. Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, addressed the synod of the Convocation of Canterbury on the issue. Whether or not artificial insemination by donor was legally held to be a crime or not, he said, it was a sin in the eyes of the church. "It is something far less responsible and far less human than adultery," he asserted...
...very lucky man," said Rumania's burly, egotistical Petru Groza, "a sort of modern Midas." Born wealthy, he owned huge estates, was a director of many companies, served as a minister in the archconservative Cabinets after World War I, was a deputy in the Synod of the Rumanian Orthodox Church. In 1927 came the great change; Millionaire Groza abruptly abandoned what he called the "Sodom and Gomorrah" of Rumanian politics, retired to his Transylvanian estates, led a lusty Rabelaisian life and, in his words, "learned to think dialectically." Translation: Groza, an opportunist of agility, saw Russia as a coming...