Word: preus
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...modern methods of biblical criticism and tend to view some supposedly historical passages (the Garden of Eden story, for example) as religious myth. At the Synod's convention in New Orleans last year, the conservatives consolidated their hold on the denomination by returning the Rev. Jacob A.O. ("Jack") Preus to the church's presidency and winning a majority on the board of its keystone theological school, Concordia Seminary of St. Louis...
...conservatives over a cluster of issues involving among other matters, literal biblical interpretations. Last week four members of the church's 18-man mission-board staff resigned, partly in protest against "the oppressive use of power" in the denomination's hierarchy, headed by conservative President Jacob A.O. Preus. Two weeks ago, the staffs director, William H. Kohn, quit, and two more members will resign when they return from trips overseas. The departures from the staff, which administers all church mission activity at home and abroad, follow the spectacular split between the church's Concordia Seminary...
...clash has been building ever since 1969, when the Rev. Jacob A.O. ("Jack") Preus was elected to a four-year term as president of the Synod. Preus, now 54, came in as a champion of conservative Synod members who believe staunchly in the "inerrancy" of the Bible, including its factual accuracy. Thus Preus and his followers hold that Adam and Eve were historical individuals - a position, they contend, that is vital to such doctrines as original...
...method. Using that system, scholars consider the Scriptures in their historical and literary settings, which may suggest that some accounts are myth, others metaphor. Tietjen has forthrightly de fended his faculty against attacks, arguing that God's word was never meant to be judged so factually. Last summer Preus was re-elected overwhelmingly at the Synod convention in New Orleans...
...Concordia board also replaced all four department heads at the seminary, three of them with doctrinaire conservatives loyal to Preus. As acting president and new head of the exegetical (i.e., Bible) department, the board appointed the Rev. Martin H. Scharlemann, 63, an unflappable former military chaplain who is a retired brigadier general in the Air Force Reserve. Scharlemann has solid academic credentials (two earned doctorates). But his appointment outraged the faculty, who consider him a turncoat: many of the professors had defended him when he was under attack as being too liberal during the 1950s...