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...years ago, on October 31, 1517, that an Augustinian friar named Martin Luther posted 95 theses for theological debate on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany. Last week most Protestant churches throughout the world were celebrating this anniversary as Reformation Sunday. But, al. though Luther's act is almost universally regarded as the beginning of the Reformation, there is little unanimity, even among Protestants, about what he set out to do, and what he accomplished after the theses were posted...
Personal Thinking. "The so-called modern era in history," says Bishop Lilje, "begins as the personal experience of one man." Luther did not set out to destroy the unity of the Roman Catholic Church -it was 20 years after he nailed up his Wittenberg theses before he decided that the break with Rome was inevitable: "He had neither a cultural program nor world-encircling organizational plans. He was simply himself, going his own path, fighting his way through the problems of faith that were laid upon him." Lilje quotes Luther's own statement: "God has led me into...
...University of Michigan's Arthur Evans Wood, 70, professor of sociology and onetime acting president of the Michigan Corrections Association. He will go to Wittenberg College in Springfield, Ohio...
Last week, on the campus of Wittenberg College in Springfield, Ohio, Anglican Matthews gave a more specific warning to the National Council of Churches' Assembly on African Affairs: South Africans are drifting toward bitter extremes, and "it seems to be the tendency of the church to be silent or hesitant to speak out." Ahead of 50-year-old Zachariah Matthews now is a year's teaching tour at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary as Henry W. Luce Visiting Professor of World Christianity, a chance to let U.S. churchmen hear, and reflect on, some of the lessons...
Even some small campuses are seeing the color of corporate money. Ohio's Wittenberg College has persuaded nearby businesses to finance a series of economics and management classes for their foremen and supervisors. Mills College in California has received $150,000 from corporations-and "that," says President Lynn White Jr., "would have been impossible five years...