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| From Planet of the Apes - George Taylor finds out that the Planet of the Apes is Earth, not a distant discovery where he landed, very much like the Lutherans of today. |
To Yale’s Lutheran Historian Jaroslav Pelikan, the Reformation was a “tragic necessity”—tragic in that it shattered the unity of Christendom, necessary in that it cleansed the church and restored man’s faith in God to its Scriptural roots. It is equally true that the Reformation is an unrealized hope and unfinished ideal. Today, says Dr. Wilhelm Pauck of Union Theological Seminary, “one could characterize the spirit of our epoch as pre-Reformation. The old order is in a process of dissolution, but there is also a great positive religious expectancy.”
One leading Lutheran scholar, Dr. Carl Braaten of Chicago’s Lutheran School of Theology, insists that Protestant union with Rome is precisely in accord with the reformer’s wishes. “The Reformation was always meant to be a temporary movement,” he contends. “When the Roman Catholic Church is reformed, there will be no justification for a separate Protestant church.”
