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...Pastor Crist would not recant, instead announced that he was determined to continue voicing his views as a teacher. Then, his status as pastor uncertain until the general synod meets in Milwaukee next May to take final action on his case, he took off with his family for a vacation in northern Wisconsin...
Semantic Denials. Unabashed, Pastor Crist tried to justify many of his denials by semantics (on the Ascension: "Ascend means to go up ... Where is up?"), insisted that all his teachings constituted "a permissible point of view within the Lutheran Church." Some Lutheran synods permit liberal interpretations of the Augsburg Confession, the 16th century work embodying basic Lutheran beliefs. But the Northwest Synod, although one of the more liberal U,S: Lutheran groups, clearly faced in Crist's teaching a threat to its basic tenets...
...John Gerberding, one of the two other pastors who may later face trial for heresy, was Pastor Crist's aide at the trial. The tribunal launched into vigorous questioning of Crist's views, even stood around after sessions debating theological points with him. In a sense, the scene was a strange re-enactment of Martin Luther's famed debate at Leipzig (1519) with Roman Catholic Theologian Dr. John Maier of Eck, who clearly demonstrated that Luther was at variance with basic Catholic doctrines...
After two days of examination, it was obvious that, try as it might, the committee could not reconcile its views with Pastor Crist's. Its verdict: guilty of nine of the 14 charges. Recommendation: immediate suspension from the ministry...
Unheeded Pleas. The Rev. Paul Wagner Roth, 77-year-old committee chairman, pleaded with Crist: "We all would be most happy if you could make the supreme sacrifice of your intellectual doubts and differences as a bearer of the Cross and a follower of Christ...