Word: concordia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mission and other activities, and serves as a meeting ground for theological discussions. But at this year's convention, the moderate Harms was turned out by a grassroots conservative reaction that elected as President Dr. Jacob A. O. Preus (rhymes with choice), head of the Synod's Concordia Seminary in Springfield, Ill. The election of Preus, a learned conservative who opposes fellowship, was seen as an implied vote of no confidence in the Harms-backed plan for fellowship with the ALC. Despite Harms' personal defeat, however, years of subtle campaigning by backers of the proposal itself paid...
...others as suspected draft dodgers. Still another argument against exemption is that clergymen, if faced with the real challenge of whether or not to serve, would be forced to evaluate more searchingly the morality of war and of duty. Asks Lutheran Theologian John Elliott of St. Louis' Concordia Seminary: "How can clergymen who have not faced the draft advise men who face...
...with your excellent article. Writer John Elson has put all of us readers in his debt for presenting such a complex subject so well." A United Church of Christ minister stationed in the Philippines thought it "another fine review of contemporary theology." From an about-to-graduate Illinois seminarian (Concordia) came a discerning thought: "Paul wrote: 'I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.' (1 Corinthians 9:22). Perhaps your cover story will help both my classmates and myself become more shrewd discerners of the time in which we live...
...brotherly statements by the World Council of Churches, Christian leaders are eager to bring Judaism into interfaith explorations. Last year one such friendly dialogue, involving 26 Catholic and Jewish scholars, took place at St. Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Pa. Lutherans have held four theological discussions with Jewish scholars at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis. Harvard Divinity School is planning a symposium in October on Jewish- Christian dialogue for its 150th anniversary this year...
...dead to those who wish him so; he lives for those who hope in him. WILMER REICHMANN JR. Ministerial Student Concordia Seminary St. Louis