Word: lutheran
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first to desert the Lutheran fold was the Rev. Wilhelm Schwenold, 46, bachelor pastor of a parish of 600 souls in Bernsbach, southwest of Nürnberg, who slipped out of town one night last fall and sent a letter of resignation to his bishop on Reformation Day. Next to go was the assistant pastor at Würzburg's Deutschhaus church, the Rev. Karl-Heinz Tillmann, 39, married and the father of three. But the final and most embarrassing blow came last month with the resignation of the Rev. Gerhard Betzner, the popular pastor of the church...
Neuendettelsau is small (pop. 6,000), but it boasts the widely respected Augustana Theological University, a Lutheran hospital, and a Lutheran institute. Pastor Betzner, renowned for his homespun sermons, had raised church attendance and tripled the number of communions in his six years there...
...preachers" who also were being allowed to infringe on the office of the ordained minister. "The church of God exists essentially through the spiritual office," Betzner said. "Without it, there is no grace." As for ordaining women, he contended that such a step is not based on Lutheran doctrine...
While some Lutheran traditionalists in Bavaria chose to leave their church, conservatives in the U.S. have consolidated control of the administration and seminaries of the 2.8 million-member Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. But it may be at the cost of a serious schism...
...rest signed up last week for a "Concordia Seminary in Exile" that began holding classes at St. Louis University (a Jesuit school) and the United Church of Christ's Eden Theological Seminary. Both host schools will certify the rebel seminarians' degrees, as will Chicago's Lutheran School of Theology, the largest seminary of a sister denomination, the more liberal Lutheran Church in America...