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...good potential box office as the subject is, only a sort of minor Protestant miracle made Martin Luther possible at all. It was made for church release, and under the sponsorship of not one but five church bodies: the American Lutheran Church, the Augustana Lutheran Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, and the United Lutheran Church, plus the National Lutheran Council of the U.S.A. Surprisingly enough, they were able to get together on so delicate an undertaking as a movie about their founder...
...Based on a questionnaire given to 1% of the families in three Lutheran synods (Missouri, Augustana, Evangelical), it covers a total of 3,405 married lay people and 946 single men and women, plus 376 pastors, most of them married...
...Minneapolis, the Evangelical Lutheran Church (membership: 872,000) voted approval of a merger with the other four churches in the American Lutheran Conference (American Lutheran Church, United Evangelical Lutheran Church, Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lutheran Free Church). Actual union, warned Church President Johan A. Aasgaard, may take a dozen years more...
...Protestantism lost much, too. Christians began thinking of themselves not primarily as Christians but as Augustana Lutherans, or Reformed Presbyterians, or Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists. Denominationalism became demonic. And with so much control in the hands of a material-minded laity, secularism became the weakness of Protestantism as sacerdotalism had been the Achilles' heel of Catholicism...
...Augustana 14. Illinois...