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...changed is demonstrated by the New Republic with a symposium of three experts: Congregationalist John C. Bennett, dean of Manhattan's Interdenominational Union Theological Seminary; Unitarian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., professor emeritus of history at Harvard and Pulitzer-prize-winning author (The Age of Jackson); Missouri Synod Lutheran Jaroslav Pelikan, associate professor of historical theology at the University of Chicago...
...Lutherans also find an emphasis on disciplined thinking about the nature of God and man that is anything but typical of U.S. Protestantism. Says Lutheran Jaroslav Pelikan. professor of Historical Christianity at the University of Chicago's Federated Theological Faculty: "We are theologically specific and theologically concerned. We are not concerned with positive thinking, with hustle-bustle for its own sake. We are not just a chummy group. The interesting thing is that while the historic differences remain. Lutherans have begun to recognize that they are closer to Roman Catholics in many ways than they are to other Protestants...
...Protestants should avoid "vicarious Pope baiting" at their Reformation festivals, said Lutheran Scholar Dr. Jaroslav J. Pelikan Jr., instead make the festivals an "opportunity for serious self-examination of their own reasons for existence." Anti-Roman Catholic sentiments often are voiced by Protestants "whose Protestantism Luther or Calvin would have a hard time recognizing...
...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...
Died. Lillian Leitzel Pelikan Cordona (Lillian Leitzel), 37, famed circus gymnast; after a fall when an iron trapeze ring broke; in Copenhagen, Denmark. Born in Prague. Czechoslovakia, she came to the U.S. at the age of 17, tiny, graceful, with the mop of gold-bronze hair which always distinguished her. She trouped with "The Four Leamy Ladies," joined Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey circuses in 1920. Thereafter she was the only artist to appear alone in her act, with single spotlight and bass drums booming. Her most famed stunt was "the giant half flange": rolling herself upward on a suspended rope...