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Died. Frederick Louis Maytag II, 51, president since 1940 of the $107 million-a-year Maytag Co., U.S. producer of laundry machines, the founder's forthright flying and skindiving grandson, who at 29 inherited a feudal Midwestern firm, modernized and expanded it tenfold by profit-sharing management and honest craftsmanship that shunned built-in obsolescence; of cancer; in Newton, Iowa...
...entire Bible as the authoritative, authentic, infallible Word of God" and urged seminaries to stamp out "theological views which would undermine such faith in the historical accuracy and doctrinal integrity of the Bible." A fortnight ago, carrying out that mandate, the trustees of Kansas City's Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary "reluctantly and regretfully" fired Ralph Elliott from his professorship there...
...publish a second edition of the book, and the immediate reason for dismissal was Elliott's refusal to promise that he would not seek another publisher. But the real disagreement was over the right of seminaries to question doctrine if serious scholarship makes it questionable. A Midwestern faculty member remarked: "There is a very low morale as a result of what has happened. I would call it a sense of shame. This kind of thing gives another professor nowhere to stand...
Last week a hundred Midwestern students met in protest over the dismissal of their most respected professor. The faculty and students of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C., said President Sydnor L. Stealey, were "deeply disturbed by the news and deeply sympathetic toward Dr. Elliott." A faculty member at Louisville's Southern Baptist Seminary reported the faculty "almost one hundred percent" in sympathy with Elliott's views...
BURNETT: The Midwestern Marvel...