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Claiming that the church constitution gives him jurisdiction over the doctrinal purity of all church employees, Preus also bypassed the seminary board and ordered seminary President John Tietjen to prevent Ehlen from teaching any Bible courses. "It was known all over the church that a man had denied the facticity of certain miracles. I felt I had to do something," Preus explains. "We've had constant unrest." Tietjen tossed the order back to the board, which met last week without resolving the impasse...
Error-Free. The case came to a head last December when Ehlen went up before the seminary's board for a lifetime tenure appointment. The meeting was also attended by Church President Jacob Preus. Preus, former head of the Missouri Synod's other seminary, Concordia of Springfield, Ill., is a theological conservative who holds that the Bible is error-free and that such stories as the Exodus must be taken at face value...
Under grilling from Preus, Ehlen...
said that he accepts 3he Bible as the word of God, but that he takes as factual only what the Bible intends to present as factual, a qualification that Preus labels a "hermeneutical cop-out." The board voted not to rehire Ehlen. But after the faculty and alumni protested, the board backed down and gave Ehlen another contract, without tenure...
...Preus was not satisfied. This month he sent all Missouri Synod pastors and teachers his own five-page set of theological principles. In a covering letter Preus postulated a sort of Domino Theory: "It is only a short step from a denial of the miraculous elements surrounding the greatest redemptive act of the Old Testament (the Exodus) to a denial of ... the miracles of the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ and His Resurrection from the dead...