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RETURN THE EXILES! read a Holy Week placard carried by one of the 200 protesters in front of the St. Louis headquarters of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. The demonstration was aimed at Dr. Jacob A.O. Preus, conservative head of the denomination, who this month fired four district presidents (roughly equivalent to bishops). Their sin: ordaining graduates of Seminex, the breakaway school from the synod's Concordia Seminary that was founded during the Lutherans' long-running doctrinal dispute over biblical interpretation (TIME, March 4, 1974). The dismissed leaders, who favor a flexible view of the Scriptures, head three...
Geographical mysteries were thus solved, but the region's weakened and debased societies and its fever-ridden travelers remained baffling to each other. In 1854 a German Lutheran explorer named Heinrich Earth was detained in Timbuctoo for eight months before rival political factions agreed to release him. An Arab officer in favor of Earth's execution spoke disapprovingly of Christians: "They sit like women in the bottom of their steamboats and do nothing but eat raw eggs...
...Lutheran Pannenberg, 47, last week ended a 21-campus tour of the U.S., the most ambitious of his three visits to America, with a talk at Harvard on the relation between the doctrine of God's election and "civil religion." In many speeches during the tour Pannenberg attacked recent styles of Christian social activism. He insists that the church should not think of itself as an agent for curing social ills, which are not "immediately solvable" anyhow. He also has no use for those Christian activists who think that "questions of the meaning of human life...
...Protestant churches, a small but rising number of parishioners look up at the pulpit on Sunday morning?and see a woman. The United Methodist Church has 576 ordained women, up from 332 in 1970, and the United Presbyterian Church has more than 200, compared with 103 in 1972. The Lutheran Church in America, which began ordaining women in 1970, has 27 women in clerical posts...
...Christmas season seems no time for churchly bloodletting. Rock-ribbed conservative President Jacob A.O. Preus, 55, of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod has decided against ousting one of the district presidents (rough equivalent of a bishop) who insist on recognizing the ordinations of graduates of the rebel liberal school known as "Seminex." Last July the church's convention authorized Preus to dump dissident district presidents 60 days before they were up for reelection. Herman Neunaber of the Southern Illinois District was the first to reach such a deadline. But last week Preus chose "counseling and brotherly admonition" for Neunaber...