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...agriculture alive, especially in its hostile northern reaches; fishermen feared competition in their inshore waters from strong British and West German fleets; and environmentalists were concerned that EEC development policies would destroy Norway's natural beauty. They were supported by a diffuse alliance of Maoist youth, Lutheran fundamentalists, mildly leftist university professors, and nationalists determined to retain the independence that Norway acquired from Sweden only 67 years...
Ever since its biennial convention a year ago, the 2.9 million member Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod has been on the brink of a civil war between the supporters of its aggressively orthodox president, Dr. Jacob A.O. Preus, 52, and those of Dr. John Tietjen, 44, the moderate president of the denomination's large, influential Concordia Seminary in St. Louis. The 1971 church convention, acting on its theme "Sent to Reconcile," attempted a kind of Missouri Compromise, supporting Preus in his theological investigation of the St. Louis seminary but leaving the moderates in control of the seminary's governing...
President Tietjen mounted his own counterattack, delivering to all Synod pastors a 35-page document that declared the fact-finding committee's report "unfair," "unreliable," "untrue," "unscriptural" and "un-Lutheran." Tietjen quoted several faculty members who enumerated the ways in which they felt they had been misunderstood or quoted out of context by the fact-finding committee. While defending the use of modern methods of biblical criticism (rejected by Preus), the faculty argued that their cautious use of these methods at Concordia does not jeopardize basic Lutheran beliefs. What is in jeopardy, Tietjen believes, is the very existence...
...Lutheran study does not deny that prejudice exists. About two out of five Lutherans reject people who differ from them in lifestyle, values or belief; Communists, homosexuals, drug addicts, "hippies" and Students for a Democratic Society are their most despised targets. About one out of five Lutherans shows some prejudice toward Jews. But the prejudiced Lutherans, A Study of Generations asserts, are not authentically orthodox. They tend to be "law-oriented" rather than Gospel-oriented. Law-oriented Lutherans show a distinct need for religious absolutism and a marked intolerance for change. In the authors' stinging words, they are people...
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