Word: preus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good to read that Jacob Preus has not yet determined the length of the creation days or the age of the earth...
Three cheers for Billy Graham and Jacob A.O. Preus. Not everyone in the institutional church has bowed the knee to Baal...
...world's most famous believer in inerrancy is Evangelist Billy Graham, but the most controversial hard-liner today is the Rev. Jacob A.O. Preus, 54, a Minnesota Governor's son with a Ph.D. in classics. Preus' crackdown as president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod led to the seminary walkout and the current threat of church wide schism. His personal view of Genesis includes a global flood in the Noah story and a six-day creation (though he leaves open to question how long the "days" were and how old the earth is). He believes literally in the Adam...
...expected to enroll in the standard master of divinity program, along with 20 other graduate students; that total is well above the most optimistic predictions after the split last winter, even though far below the 650 enrolled before the controversy began. Acting President Ralph A. Bohlmann, who has been Preus' theological aide-de-camp, has fielded a full-time faculty of 18 (compared with four last spring). Meanwhile, the Missouri Synod's other official theological school, Concordia Seminary of Springfield, Ill., has an aggressive new president, the Rev. Robert D. Preus-Jack's brother and a conservative...
...conservatives, of course, take an opposite view, especially in the wake of Concordia's astonishing rebound. Seminex, predicts Church President Preus, "will wither away in a couple of years." Preus dismisses talk of any actual schism. "E.L.I.M. is mainly a clergy movement," he observes. "There will not be any split, primarily because the lay people are not cranked up." Moreover, Preus insists, he is not going to do anything "to stir things up further." With the conservatives' firm grip on the seminaries, "there's no reason for heresy hunts in the parishes...