Word: preus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jockeying began two years ago, when a grass-roots revolt before the 1969 convention brought conservative Classicist J.A.O. ("Jack") Preus into the presidency of the denomination. But moderates remained in command of the Missouri Synod's respected Concordia Theological Seminary in St. Louis, the largest Lutheran seminary in the U.S. Preus has since consolidated power with aggressive efficiency-moderates say with ruthlessness. Though a number of opponents stayed in untouchable jobs around him, he carefully nurtured grassroots support. The moderates' main complaint against their president stems from an investigation he launched last year at Concordia in response...
...produce enemies aplenty among churchmen. In one column about a conservative purge in the Missouri Synod, he wrote that "the headquarters of the Missouri Synod looks like a Parisian guillotine basket, circa 1793." Dissident clergymen, Kinsolving gleefully reported, were calling the denomination's president, the Rev. Dr. J.A.O. Preus, "Chairman Jao." Preus replied by likening Kinsolving's technique to that of Joseph Goebbels...