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...showdown between Theological Hard-Liner Jacob A.O. Preus, president of the 2,900,000-member Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and more liberal Lutherans in the denomination has long been expected to occur at the national synod convention in New Orleans this July. Since he was elected president in 1969, Preus has been fighting the "historical-critical" approach to the Bible that casts doubt, he says, on the literal accuracy of such biblical tales as Adam and Eve and Jonah and the Whale. Less literal Lutherans have hoped to defeat Preus by nominating a popular moderate candidate, Oswald C.J. Hoffmann...
...Indian robes, sandals, and sported swami beards. In Berkeley, TIME'S Lois Armstrong found that the priests could also adapt easily to the Californian way of life. For their weekly cocktail party at the Jesuit School of Theology, they donned sports shirts and slacks. Brought up in a Lutheran parsonage, she was delighted to find the Jesuits "open, talkative, thoughtful, critical, probing, interesting to a man−and not at all secretive...
Wilson's dislike of the NCC and the Lutheran Church has little to do with theology. AIM has demanded Wilson's ouster, and Wilson thinks the NCC supports the militant group. The Tribal Council president is fighting for his political life, and he does not take a favorable view of Adams's close communications with AIM leaders...
...ties with the church are not merely Wilson's imagination. Different denominations have contributed to AIM since its inception in 1968. One prominent donor, the Lutheran Church, has given $37,000 for various AIM projects over the last four years...
Eugene Crawford, a member of the National Lutheran Indian Board, said last week that the Lutheran Church chose AIM over other Indian groups because "it seemed the most gutty...