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...Your Nov. 28 coverage of "Luther in English" is much appreciated. However, there were two important omissions: the St. Louis Concordia Publishing House is an arm of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod; Professor Jaroslav Pelikan, associate professor of historical theology in the federated theological faculty of the University of Chicago, is general editor for the volumes being published by Concordia...
...Orthodox. ¶In Milwaukee, a jury of pastors found Lutheran Pastor Victor K. Wrigley, 35, guilty of heresy on five counts, including: "Denying the objective authority of the Holy Scripture" and "Denying the historical fact of the Virgin Birth." Minneapolis' Paul E. Bishop, President of the Northwest Synod of the United Lutheran Church, said he would suspend Heretic Wrigley "without a doubt." ¶Women employees of Miami department stores have organized "Christlike Christmas Parties, Inc." Purpose: to oppose alcoholic Christmas celebrations by business firms...
...John Gerberding of Menomonee Falls, Wis. was acquitted by a trial committee of the Northwest Synod of the United Lutheran Church of heresy charges similar to those for which the Rev. George P. Crist Jr. of Durham was convicted (TIME, Aug. 8). The committee found "obvious confusion, immaturity and inconsistencies in Gerberding's position and recommended administrative action by the synod. Pastor Grist's comment: "The trial was considerably different from mine...
...obviously that the lives of men are subject to the planets, which are in turn subject to God. Raphael, who painted the pagan divinity Galatea for Chigi's palace, also made the Vatican shine with Christian and pagan subjects, depicting the company of the saints and a synod of ancient sages opposite one another, making companion pictures of the fall of Adam and Eve and the flaying of Marsyas, and facing an allegorical fresco of the three chief Christian virtues with one of Parnassus...
...Membership in Lutheran churches of the U.S. and Canada increased by 248,840 last year, to reach a new high of 7,117,906, the National Lutheran Council reported. Area of greatest growth: the powerful (2,001,135) Missouri Synod, which gained 84,625 baptized members...