Word: revs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rev.) Theodore Hesburgh South Bend...
...refused to perform the baptism, and O'Rourke stepped into the breach against orders from his immediate superior. Last week it was clear that the Jesuits took O'Rourke's disobedience much more seriously than he had expected: his New York provincial superior, the Very Rev...
...more readily use 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...
...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 with impressive intellectual credentials. It also has its biggest incoming class (118) in years. All this suggests a strong allegiance to old-line traditionalism, even among younger Lutherans...
...against Britain and argued that "the same applies to the black people in their struggle today." The resolution has been condemned in the South African Parliament and by the Dutch Reformed churches, which do not belong to the council. But the new Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, the Rt. Rev. Bill B. Burnett, last week defended it. Said he: "It faces us with things as they...